Diorama/Scene

Now that I have chosen my idea to do Uncle Sam I next needed to think of a diorama or scene to put him in. I found this quite challenging as you only see him from the poster and not in any real environment.
I did have my first idea which would involve actually creating the rest of the poster, so by this I mean creating the writing in 3D and then creating a frame for the outside of the poster. Then when going presenting this I could have the camera facing straight on and slowly zoom out to show the rest of his body. I just feel then that the rest of the scene would be quite empty and could do with more being added into it. I do still like this idea, and if allowed I will see if I can incorporate it somehow.
Following on from this idea, I liked the thought of presenting the scene with it starting off with Uncle Sam pointing at the camera, then slowly zooming out to show more. I feel if done well this could have a good impact on my scene.
Part of the brief stated we could mix a certain theme into our idea e.g a castle could have a fantasy like element to it. I began to think, how could I possibly change Uncle Sam, and it working. I first though of him slowly turning into a skeleton/zombie, with the top of him looking normal but as you zoom out it reveals rotting flesh, bone showing. But I imagined this may not look very good, and I have seen many people on the internet draw pictures of Uncle Sam as a zombie. I then went to the complete other end of ideas. What if as you zoom out it shows him not even being completely human, and once it cuts off from the waist, it turns out he has tentacles. I liked the idea but was unsure if this would be allowed. The whole idea of me wanting to change him was only to change his bottom half, as in the posters you can only see his top half and one arm. So what if it turned out he was in a wheel chair and had lost his other arm? Or maybe, and I just thought of this while writing, he was a ghost of a soldier that died in battle after blowing up from a grenade. And on the poster was actually all what is left of him ( I may run this idea by my lecturer).
I decided to leave this idea for the time being, untill the new week started and I could share my ideas with others in my class and ask my lecturer if any of these ideas were suitable.
I began to think about the scene again as this was more important. I thought it would be fun and still fit the theme, if I went extremely American with the whole project, and had the American flag flying the background, and then an Eagle coming down to land next to him, and then some ww1 planes flying in the background. I thought this could actually work well, but I felt it may be too much to model in my time given. I couldn't think of many other ideas which he could be placed in which would work well, but not be too complicated to create. I then thought of his standing behind a podium, giving a speech to a crowd. The scene could involve chairs, plants and the entire room.
I still felt none of these were working very well, I thought a simply solution would just to have him on a diorama piece like a statue would be on, or a trophy. But I knew this wouldn't be enough to fit the brief. So I had to think of a way to still have him on his piece with not too much happening too him, but still quite a bit going on around him. Thats when I thought of the idea of having him in a museum. I could have him in his position, standing and pointing. But then it zooms out and he is behind glass in a corner of a museum with red rope around it cornering him off. It could then be filled with plants and lights around him, and various things found in a museum. Also in the set up with him could have the flag flowing in the background. I could even incorporate my idea of the 3D writing and outer frame, so when looked at from a certain angle it looks like the poster. I could also have a backdrop with some clouds and some faint WW1 planes flying in the background, to emphasize the WW1 theme. I feel this will work nicely and I am able to use a number of my earlier ideas in this scene.
Other work I can relate this too, is to Call of Duty. In one game you are able to go to a museum and see still scenes from various levels of the game, and this had the same sort of theme as I wanted to show. A still shot from a moment with the scene made to give more of an impact.

In the two images above, you can get a good idea of what was happening at that moment in time, which is what I want to try and portray. They have also use 2D backdrops to give the audience a good idea of where it was also set. I think this idea will work very well for my idea and I look forward to starting this project.

At the start of the next week, once I have got the okay for my idea, I shall begin to create a block out for my scene as well a s Uncle Sam to give a better idea of what I wish to create.