24/09/2025 - 27/10/2025 (Week 1-__)
Edgar Flavio Tanjung / 0378967
Character Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 1 - Pre Production
TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. Feedback
4. Reflection
Week 1
World Building
- Inside-Out Method - An approach when you have a story premise in mind. You start by thinking of the world's key functions then expand into other elements that affects the main key functions.
- Out-Inside Method - An approach when you have a general understanding of your world's geography and boundaries. With that idea, you continue working on the details of the world.
Key Elements for World Building
- Where is the story located?
- Location - General layout of the world; continents, countries, planets, solar systems.
- Water - There's no life without water, include sources of water like oceans, rivers, springs, lakes, etc.
- Landscape - The
- Climate - The
- Who are your world's main inhabitants?
- Characters - What are their attributes and how do they interact with each other.
- What is the governing system?
- Government - How the governments rule their world, what laws rule the land, who creates the laws, how these laws are enforced,
- Religion - Most culture practice one or two dominant religions with these religions influencing that area's culture.
- What social difference exist between people?
- Divisions - Identify the boundaries between the social class within that culture.
- Food & Drink - Necessary for survival, it greatly defines the social classes within a culture.
- Professions - The available professions depend on the type of the fictional world
- Appearances - The
- How historical events shaped your world?
- Traumatic Events - The
- Power Shift - The
- What are people's standards of living?
- Power - Very few
- Art & Entertainment - Culture impacts art and entertainment and vice versa.
- Relations - Cultures frequently clash and it causes conflict. Think about how the relationship between different cultures in that world.
- How does the world compare technologically to our own?
- Technology - The technology depends on the world's fictional system
- Does magic exist?
- Magic - Think of a well thought of magic system