JOURNEY Through the underworld
Mediums used: Adobe Photoshop, chalk pastel, pens, and pencils.
Assignment: design a dark ride and a restaurant or gift shop to go with it.
Story
Stemmed from the greek myth Orpheus. You journey into the underworld to get back your loved one. You can bring your loved one back only catch is you can't turn back.
On your way back all the creatures in the underworld try everything in their power to get you to turn around whether it’s voices right behind you and a breeze on the back of your neck and jump scares. This ride will be filled with many references to Greek mythology and possibly other cultures as well
Track plan
Story Beats
A = Exterior Que
B = Fast pass
C = pre show elevator simulator
D = Interior que
E = loading
F = Meet lover
G = Talk with Hades
H = Go through the asphodel meadows/fields of punishment
I = Gates of Tartarus
J = Big drop into a pool of lava entering Tartarus
K = Cerberus tries to go after you.
L = Persephone and medusa have a tea party
M = Minotaur tries to hit riders with a club
N = Hydra Encounter
O = Alas holds the sky and asks riders if any of them could take his place
P = Tartarus himself Rises from the depths
Q = Boat 180's and you see Lover Vanish
R = Unload
Pitch:
Menu Profile
Persephone’s BANQUET
You have been invited by persephone to her bankuet in the underworld as she shows off the vast cuisine of the underworld. Each dish you receive will represent a different section of the underworld.
The restaurant takes walk-ins but prefers reservations, Persephone’s, Hades and possibly other Greek myths might interact with you as you are dining.
Each dish will try to take inspiration from ancient greek cuisine with the following flavor profiles:
First course: Tartarus= spicy, smokey
Second course: Fields of punishment= pallet cleanser muted flavors, colors
Third course: asphodel meadows= some sort of salad
Main dish: choice between 2 dishes
Hades dish= dry aged, or fermented ingredients.
Persephone's dish= vegetarian dish starring a crop that is in season
Desert, isle of the blessed= pomegranate sorbet encased in a chocolate shell made to look like a pomegranate
Mood Boards
Exterior queue and Preshow
Old Fashioned dated like the dead
Lighting shifts from warm to cool the deeper you go probably a warm orange at the top to a deathly green at the bottom
Almost crashes at the bottom
Hedges hide the building behind the elevator