Monday, 29 April 2013
Narrative Poem
Here is my poem titled 'Halloween Kitty', which I will animate for my narrative project. It is self-written and I wanted to touch on the theme of being young and an outsider, but ultimately finding a like-minded person to be accepted by.
Halloween Kitty
Kitty was a girl quite different to the rest,
Whilst her classmates thought that to 'fit in' was best.
She shunned the daytime in favour of night,
And hid in the library to stay out of sight.
She liked dark clothes with spiders and stars,
Which meant she was treated like she was from Mars!
There were boys in her class who were particularly cruel,
She wished everyday that they would leave school.
When home, she played with her only friend Smudge,
He was a fluffy black cat who liked to wear gloves.
Her mother wished her to be like other girls,
All lipgloss and lace, and rainbows and curls.
But Kitty could not think of anything worse,
She felt more at home with black cats and a hearse.
And although she was told to do so is wrong,
She thought about Halloween All. Year. Long.
And what of Halloween? Well it was a time that she shone,
She knew every fable and movie and song.
She sashayed around like a queen for a day,
Not caring what classmates were likely to say.
One night around that time of Halloween,
She awoke from a rather frightening dream.
She gazed at her window in complete disbelief,
For a creature was there with big, snarling teeth!
She screamed at the sight of those big yellow eyes,
And her mother rushed in to the sound of her cries,
A monster! A creature! Kitty tried to explain,
But her mother just stared, eyes filled with disdain.
Kitty, you MUST stop with your scary films and books!
Then she shut the door with a firm warning look.
But Kitty knew what she saw! She knew she wasn’t mad!
And deep down inside, she was actually quite glad.
Because if monsters really were prowling at night,
Then her ‘Halloween’ world had been proven right!
She felt light of heart walking to school the next morning,
But the playground was chaos – the school closed without warning.
Two boys had been killed, from what she could grasp,
They just happened to be the meanest boys in her class!
It seemed that a creature had slain them in bed,
A great snarling wolf – or so it was said.
Kitty froze at the thought of the beast at her home,
Why had it killed these two boys yet left her alone?
Just then she heard her name softly called,
She followed it through the trees and over a wall.
Suddenly she gasped in utter surprise,
As she saw in the bushes those big yellow eyes!
But as she looked down her heart skipped a beat,
The beast was in fact wearing shoes on it’s feet!
And as it stepped out from it’s dark hiding place,
The fur started to fall from the body and face.
The eyes once yellow were now a deep blue,
She realised it was Ben – a boy from her school!
‘Ben! You're a Werewolf!’ Kitty exclaimed,
Ben nodded his head and then tried to explain.
‘When a full moon rises I must feast on flesh,
Sometimes it’s chickens – but humans taste best!’
‘You should know that I killed those boys for you Kitty’,
He mumbled ‘Because you’re cool and so very pretty’
‘I hated how they picked on you time after time,
I wanted to make sure they paid for their crimes’.
Kitty was speechless and Ben stared at the ground,
It was certainly a lot to get her head around!
But then a thought struck her like a bolt from above,
Perhaps with a werewolf she had found true love!
Who else would understand the dark world that she chose?
The beauty of graveyards, a full moon, a black rose.
She threw her arms around him and kissed his cheek,
‘Come on’ she smiled ‘my fellow freak’.
And as he smiled back she glimpsed a small fang,
Taken back by the beauty, her heart gave a pang.
And right there she knew that they would never once part,
Whilst the spirit of Halloween was alive in their hearts.
THE END
Life Drawing 25/04
Today was the first day that we got together in our group of 3 to plan our 15 figures for the battle scene. We have about 9 on paper and found that life drawing we had done so far this semester had provided relevant battle poses that would fit together well.The life drawing session in the second half of the lecture also helped further as the poses were so dynamic. Below are my drawings from this session (3-5 mins each).
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