Discovery Style Guide Version 2 for Mermaid Out of Water

1. DISCOVERY STYLEGUIDEMermaid out of Water
A mermaid at heart, Leukothea feels she has to find roots on land
though she knows she belongs in the sea. She travels the earth to find a
home and becomes friends with nature. Each time the land
(personified) leads her to the
the ocean, and by the sea she builds a home = the best of both worlds.

2. The Mythology of Leukothea is a Sea Goddess who aids sailors in
distress.
In the story she represents human instinct to help.
The hand that guides the blind through hardship.
Yet her fingers tingle with the need to create.
Now She is in-between homes, neither here nor there.
There is a feeling of ambiguity that the audience can relate with.
It asks the question of who guides Leukothea? …. Nature
Her Culture is of French heritage with English Roots.
An English Rose who is trying to connect with her home land.
Reflects that everyone has a cultural background though not often connected to
it so strongly.

3. In the future there is a sense of resolution
Her heart and Nature keep leading her back
to the sea.
Realization that she does not need to fit in,
she can create her own mold!
She is able to see the beauty of both worlds,
rather than making a choice.
Realization she can have both, she does not
have to leave either behind.
She knows she needs to create her own
home not to fit into another.
Reconnection with the elements of the
world.

4. COLOUR – Sea
 Dark blue tones
 Showing waterfalls – how she can have water on the land!
 Her place of peace
 Dark but feeling of security
 Cool – the moon
 Refer to Blue Environment – Gradients of tones

5. COLOUR – Land
 Bright warm tones
 Oranges / reds
 Earth tones / greens
 New vibrant colors
 Presents uncertainty
 Negativity
 Powerful – the sun

6. PURPLE – Resolution
 The combination of red/orange with Blue
 A balance
 Symbolism of being a mixture of things
 The moment of resolution / purple storm – when the two collide
 Mystical

7. CHARACTER: Leukothea
 Purple carries though to the color of Leukothea
 Clothing that presents the flowing elements of her nature
 Lucid - Vulnerable
 Flowing
 Translucent – effected by other colours
 Absorbs other colours / mimics them to try and fit in

8. CHARACTER : Nature Personified
 The leaves whispering
 The Grass waving
 The looming sun she fears
 The cool calm moon – as her guide
 The dancing stars
 The sea – as comforting
 BLUE (SEA) AND ORANGE (LAND)

9. ENVIROMENT
 The mysterious elements of the land
 Desert and Forest
 From Open space (scary)
 Through a sandstorm into clarity
 Covered Shelter (Beauty)
 Nature becomes alluring

10. ENVIROMENT
 The comfort of the sea
 Calming
 Cool
 The Moon / Night time

11. LIGHTING
 Natural Light and dramatic light
 Dramatic Changes to show changes in emotion
 Reflects stages of her life / decision making
 Mood lighting
 Opaque / translucent to show layers and brightness / shadows
 Bright/ fresh / dark and unnatural

12. VISUAL EFFECTS
 Seeing through her eyes
 Like a child seeing the world
 Low down angles to show her
vulnerable perspective
 Hazy Layers
 Linear perspective/ vanishing point
 scale

13. FRONTS / TYPOLOGY
 Like a child learning to write
 Diary style
 As it comes out of her head onto the
paper-
 Flowing
 Naïve / perfect form
 Introducing bold water marks for new ideas
 When a new event occurs
 The colors of her mind exploding on the screen

14. MUSIC REFERENCE
Classical Music – represents the mythology, her calm state and
the motion of the water
Music with reference or using water as sounds effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEEZ5jB5pWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110Jl_JK9VE
Fast tempo (AC/DC, Disclosure – the meaning in the lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fZeaUHsjw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72v8_QBxHE&index=9&list=PLZl6dMgPPhG_YbFU36WSwP8wpSt
K-nKun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSDssvF67Mw&list=PLZl6dMgPPhG_YbFU36WSwP8wpStK-
nKun&index=1

15. FILM REFERENCE
 The Little Mermaid,
 Disney films ( the use of colors, the feelings from childhood, the
idea of a happy ever after
 Avatar – the extreme beauty of nature, how the land could be
shown as a whole new world in itself.

16. ILLUSTRATION
Fantasy
Hyper reality
Stimulates the senses

17. INDENT / BUMPER
STORY BOARD
 Reflects the 3 colours:
 Blue, Red/Orange and Purple
 Shows the transition from one
to the other to reflect on
Leukothea’s transition in the
story
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