Day as an Art Director

We had a quick fire challenge in class where I was given the title of Art Director and assigned a team of concept artists to pitch two movies in one. I was given "The Wizard of Oz" and "Aliens" to mash together and re-pitch within two hours with concept work to support.

"How" you ask? Well that's where I come in. I called the team together and gave them my concept;

"Dorothy" along with her squad of roughneck space marines "Lion", "Tinman", and "Scarecrow", are the lone survivors of their frigate "Kansas" crash landing on an alien planet after a warp malfunction while escorting a top secret science vessel, "The Emerald" carrying the first bio-cybernetic intelligence "Oz". Surviving the crash with them is their captain "Glinda" who is fatally wounded and unable to move. "Glinda" gives the final orders to the squad to find "Oz", who should be able to repair and run "The Emeralds" warp drive.

As "Dorothy" rounds up the surviving squad with her hovering assistant droid "T.0T.0" on her way to "The Emerald", the alien inhabitants, the "Flying monkeys" and other evolutionary variants led by their hive mind "Wicked Witch", begin to hunt and assimilate the pockets of survivors, capturing them in egg sacks as they become hosts to alien spawn. "Wicked Witch" captures "Dorothy" and her squad and tries to assimilate them to understand their technology and the presence of "Oz". Defeating the "Wicked Witch" and escaping the hive, "Dorothy" and her squad make it to "The Emerald" and discover that "Oz" has been observing and facilitating the alien assimilation process of the science crew, creating monstrous hybrid "munchkins" and actually caused the warp drive malfunction to escape further experimentation. With reasoning and wit along with careful reprogramming, "Dorothy" manages to change "Oz"s mind about helping them and activate the advanced repair protocol of the science vessel, all the while defending it from the alien horde until warp activation.

Due to the lack of proper shielding during the warp, "Dorothy" and her squad do not recall clearly what happened and how they ended up in an escape pod drifting in friendly space without "Oz". The whole ordeal was reported to be warp drive malfunction, shielding failure, and pirate attack, with complete loss of "Oz". "Dorothy", however, still remembers moments before they jettison the escape pod the vision of "Oz" conversing with the captured "Wicked Witch" hive mind surrounded by glass chambers filled with "munchkin" hybrids.

Pretty crazy, but here's the work that came of it.

I designed "Oz"(supercomputer), "Lion"(heavy weapons specialist), and "Scarecrow"(infantry).

The rest of the work I delegated to the crew depending on their strengths, style, and preference. I won't go into what's what but I'm sure creative minds loke yours can figure it out.