In order to practice constructing imaginative and critically designed
monsters that embody specific cultural fears and desires, we are going
to design a vampire/zombie for today.
This exercise is
intended to help us work on connecting specific cultural fears and
desires to a physical, monstrous embodiment. Creativity with
physicality, environment, goals, and prey is the goal here. We don't
want to slip into cliches or boring metaphors, but rather to think about
how we can make our vampire/zombie truly a unique representation of the
present moment.
Something we know about our vampire/zombie:
It
is a Whittier College student, so we will want to consider the unique
stresses, anxieties, and desires of Whittier College students.
Categories to design:
-Cultural fears/desires it represents
-Prey
-Environment (where it lives and what it's environment looks like, when it wakes and sleeps, etc.)
-Physicality (face, body, skills)
-Attitude/goals
Each of these should uniquely demonstrate the cultural fears/desires the student vampire/zombie represents.
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