Masque of the Red Death Comic Strip Plan

You can read "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe online at this website: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Edgar_Allan_Poe/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death_p1.html

I have decided to tell this story by splitting up my A1 card into seven boxes. Originally, I considered having an A1 piece of card for each panel but I decided it was impractical and too time consuming for initial research.

Each of the boxes will feature the seven rooms described in the story; the blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet and black/scarlet rooms.

Here is a rough sketch to illustrate my idea.

I want the story to start at the first panel where the masquerade is happy, showing the orchestra in the second panel, moving through the rooms as they start to notice the intruder and in the last panel I want to show the ebony clock chiming midnight with Prince Prospero lying dead at the Red Death's feet.

As the descriptions of each room in the actual story are very brief, one of my tutors suggested that I take pictures and draw from them in order to plan the layout of each room as I find it easy to draw from pictures, even though I have an idea of what I want the rooms to look like.