But anyway, environmental design! Up to this point, my room has really been quite arbitrary. It started out as a cave-like setting with torch light, but now that the story has been "industrialized" so to speak, I've been thinking of a warehouse-like room, with cold fluorescent light. Again, it's arbitrary. So I was thinking maybe I should make it a factory setting -- I can get away with making the well some kind of industrial vat.
There are very few objects that actually work for the well object: it has to contain water, and it has to be deep enough such that a crocodile-sized dragon could conceivably form in its depths. It would be hard to get away with the "actually the dragon is small" joke if it formed in a bathtub. Same goes for the kiddie pool. But a vat or tank might work.
Here's a whole bunch of pictures I found inspiring. Vote for the ones you like best!
Four from mattepainting.org:
Three from avanti.nd.edu:
Miscellaneous:
The breakdown for this image is here: http://www.fxguide.com/article320.html
3 comments:
Hi John!
Some of those pictures really make industrial mess look beautiful! They're great scenes.
I know you said that they're arbitrary though, so let me put forth the idea that they don't look like places a child would have access to.
I don't know what else you can do though! I kind of like your cave idea -- if you're worried that it's not up-to-date enough, you can have it lit with flashlights instead of torches, and I think we'll get the idea.
But then, I don't know that caves are necessarily easier to sneak into than warehouses. What a difficult problem!
What if it's more like a tree house or fort? It would be an easily accessible place, and his parents would expect him to be there.
I have to agree with claire, these would be perfect for a project like Young's, but this doesn't look like something a child would have access to, let alone visit. It also takes away from the idea that this kid got a mail order chemistry style kit to make a dragon.
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