Author, Robert Rankin sporting a Clockwork Watch badge!
We caught up with author Robert Rankin at the Medway Festival of Steam. Here he is sporting one of our fine Clockwork Watch badges!!!!
SXSW panel picker is LIVE. Ian Ginn & Yomi Ayeni are hosting a panel called “Creating Indie Transmedia Projects.”
It’s a chance to explain the motivation behind creating a concept from an Indie perspective. We do it without funding, brand partnerships, or any financial assistance. We are solely motivated by telling participatory and engaging stories, and connecting with our audience.
SXSW Panel Picker
Many parts of the Clockwork Watch story will be played out in the real world, as part of an immersive live-event ethos. We believe this approach encourages ‘play’ and opens the narrative to participants who want to become involved in our storyworld.
The objective is for people to share their personal experiences, in other words tell our story. Each contribution has the potential to shape the narrative, by making creative adjustments to the project.
Our second foray into this territory comes in the form of “industrial action‘ or a strike, called by the Union for the Casual Labourer – a group representing people working on the Clockwork Project at the Department for the Advancement of Sciences. Many workers believe jobs will be at risk if the automatons they’re developing become active.
The Casual Labourer Strike is a ‘working class’ day of action, where anyone following this story can participate by going on strike. We would like everyone interested in storytelling, Steampunk, Victoriana or just role-playing to join us on July 14th 2012. You do not have to be a trade unionist to strike, in fact we hope people choose other factions, even oppose the day of action.
Create a placard stating your grievance, don your working class finery, take a photograph or video, write a story and share it on your social stream – Twitter, Facebook, blog or send it to us at (informer – @ – clockworkwatch-dot- com).
The strike is a major development in the Clockwork Watch story, and we need your help in making it happen. We hope to rally a global show of strength, some of us will picket the Advancement of Sciences Roadshow on July 14th / 15th, but kindly join us in spirit, where ever you are!
Kindly post details of your intent on our Facebook Event page, and you can follow the story live on our tweeter stream @ClockworkWatch. Read all about it in our online paper The London Gazette.
Don’t forget this is all about PLAY, and we hope you enjoy the experience.
Brothers, Sisters, drop your tools, we’re going on strike – OUT!
Casual Labourere Strike
Clockwork Watch gets a mention in Screen International‘s coverage of Cross Video Days Paris.
Screen International
Chan Ranbir got old, but still an authority figure.
Janav’s all grown up now.
First concepts of the Clockwork Watch uniform.
First sketches of possible hairdue for Janav.
Trying out his grown up face…
“Janav’s mother, in particular, is more “liberated” than an Indian woman would have been in the historical Raj, but in just a few words and gestures, she shows us how she must still keep her strength hidden in a man’s world.”
Cinematic Happenings Under Development Review
All the artwork for Clockwork Watch: The Arrival is drawn and painted by hand. Want to see what it takes to produce one page? Here’s Jennie…
Flicks and the City’s Jan Gilbert caught up with Clockwork Watch creator Yomi Ayeni at Kapow-Con in London, to get the skinny on this project. He explains how the story started, his inspiration and why he chose this genre.
Here’s a progress scan of what is to become a painting very soon!
And below are a few first sketches and doodles of various things connected to Breakaway, the sequel to The Arrival which is currently being drawn by yours truly behind the scenes!
The very first concept sketch of a certain Chan, 20 years on from The Arrival.
The following doodles show how I start off with costume designs. I do quick little thumbnails.
And finally a sketch of… Well.. It’ll become clear later on. 😛
