After completing my 6 digital adventures I have chosen to research further into my Alien related adventure and perhaps into more alien cults. One idea that I do have for my 10 images is to use the show Ancient Aliens episodes as each image, using the content of each episode to be the content of each image. However I will research more and see what else I can find that may be a good idea for my 10 images.
On my start to research more I thought it would be good to look into one of the most notorious and well known alien conspiracy religions, Scientology. Xenu is their God, who was an alien dictator of the Galactic Confederacy. It is said he brought billions of his people to earth and then killed them with atom bombs. I do like the idea of bringing the story of Xenu into a 10 image narrative.
Another cult that I looked into in my digital adventures was Heavens Gate, I created some ideas for posters in reference to the cult.
I do like these however I am still thinking that I will either make my 10 images on Ancient Aliens or on the story of Xenu. When watching Ancient Aliens I need to pick out episodes that I enjoy the most and that will create the most interesting and fun imagery. One episode that I am interested in is the Aliens and the Old West episode, this episode is something I can have fun with. In these ten images I want to have fun, I want to propose these theories to people in a fun and jokey way.
After researching more into Scientology and the story of Xenu I took a liking to the wacky crazy story and I think it is what I am going to focus on for my 10 images. I want it to be a narrative. I started by mocking up what each image will be iso that I can tell the story clearly. One idea I really like is to use an illustrative style close to religious imagery such as stain glass windows or bible illustrations to convey how this is an actual religion.
The Story of Xenu
The story of Xenu, as it is written, happens about 75,000,000 years ago where Xenu who was the overlord of the galactic confederacy, which owned about 72 planets. These planets were having overpopulation issues and Xenu’s solution to this was to kill millions of beings and freeze their souls and bring them to earth. Where they were places around volcanoes and ultimately blown up with atom bombs. Xenu then was eventually revolted against by other members until he was captured and imprisoned on an unknown desert planet where he remains to this day...alive.
With my plan for my 10 images I had to make the choice of what kind of illustration and ideas I wanted to convey into my images. I decided to research into religious illustrations, especially Christian line illustrations which are very much like a drawn version of stained glass windows. I used these images as inspiration for my images as well as sketching my ideas in my sketchbook.
Afte viewing many religious images and recording the certain patterns and common images in them, as well as the borders around the images, I started to create my final pieces using detailed sketches I had done traditionally and turned them into digital adaptations.
After my tutorial I was questioned about how I would present these ten images and I have some ideas about masking it as a Bible kind of book for Scientology, making it look super serious and then when you open it up it’s this very silly and unbelievable story.
Here’s my progress on the images so far.
I have now finished all 10 images.
I will print this into a zine and I have an idea of wrapping it in a top secret envelope from Scientology to show how secretive the Church is and I will continue this project into my main project by looking into Scientology and its controversies and the people that want to leave. I plan to put my 10 images in a printed 16 page zine styled pages however I will just cut off the excess 6 pages, like so.
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