The Wordsmiths

Student project at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

My responsibilities included

• Working on the storyworld
• Working on the small excerpt, we wanted to show in the graphic novel
• Communicating with author
• Communicating with artist
• Finalizing/polishing of the prototype and the graphic novel

 

A graphic novel about an alternative Shakespeare in an alternate timeline.

“What if WORDS were actual CURRENCY?”.

In the workshop “Story Worlds” at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg we tried to find an answer to this question. Our answer was, that in a society that valued words above everything else, of course someone, somewhen invented a mechanism that literally measured a word’s value to the society: A scale that weighs a written word and shows the value.

 

Download the graphic novel

 

Full Credits:

Idea & Storyworld
Maria Hilbert
Thorsten Fietzek

Producer
Thorsten Fietzek

Art & Illustration
Miki Sato

 

Produced as part of the subject area Interactive Media at the Animationsinstitut at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.
www.interactives.academy