Visual Language: Composition

For this composition, I chose to focus on the Ash Williams character, rather than The Invisible Man, as the latter leaves little room for facial expression.

Oddly, Bruce Campbell's face is a difficult subject, it but over the course of refinement and extensive use of reference material I eventually settled on a characterisation that I was contented with.

To plan a composition it is most useful to create quick and dirty thumb-nails, though I find the low quality of these particular developmental sketches distracting.

Firstly, I chose to expand on the heroic composition of Ash, holding aloft his chainsaw hand, but I was unhappy with the anthropometric quality.

I turned to the idea involving close-ups, so I could focus on expression rather than anatomy.

I find this resolution far more successful due to the refined nature of the composition. The high tree-line suggests a claustrophobia, and the facial close-ups are reminiscent of the photography style of Sam Raimi. Although perhaps with further refinement there could have been a way of incorporating a full-figure portrait rather than extreme close-up.