What are your initial reactions to the research question?
- Super good question
- have the women you have chosen been picked for a reason thats personal to you?
- similar to goodnight stories for rebel girls!
- focus on young activists is a good question- and #MeToo can still be brought in as a case study
- could also look at how adding a # to a phrase makes it more significant?
- digital/reality- does sharing on the internet mean the same as sharing in real life?
What are your initial reactions to the work?
- lovely visual quality
- could you depict scenes/places so its more than portraits?
- look at protest signage and location
- do children know what activism is? do you need to give more info?
- maybe look at doing portraits with collections of related quotes/objects?
- add more narrative to hint at the context
The relation between the research question and the practical direction-
- What did these women do? could that be illustrated? could you give more than a face?
- how can the audience relate? think about the fact your audience will be children
- can see the link! images alone need more context however
-specific portraiture makes sense if you know the project aims but by themselves its a little unclear
The proposed outcomes of the project-
- Book for kids is ambitious
- a good challenge may be short animations?
- book is a good idea, but push it for the audience that its aimed for
- maybe begin mocking it up now?
- animation, pop up, interactive- what elements will it have?
What do you think could be improved upon?
- use of colour? B&W has connotations of history and the past- important for it to be clear that its happening now!
- visually confident and clear tone of voice that children can relate to!
- try some of these portraits through print
- add subtle life and emotion through animation
Questions that have arisen from looking at the work-
- focus on technology on how that can spread awareness and get involved in activism through your illustrations online to raise support
- how many women involved? will you include any men?
- what time period? all of history? present day? Timeline?
- how do you get children involved in a difficult topic?
What I can take from this:
Although I've made a good start to my practical work I need to get moving with it and begin to mock up how I intend for the book to look when its finished as at the moment its unclear to anyone who's not me what the intention is. I also need to do more market research into what kind of text will be included in the book and what kind of information is appropriate for children of my target age. I also need to settle on a target age. I am also realising that a full book is an unrealistic goal at this point due to the short amount of time we have left so instead I'll aim to make a clear proposal for my book with double page spreads and layout plans. I think it maybe would also help to have a mocked up front and back cover, book jacket which will encapsulate what I want to talk about in the book, and its title etc.
Its also been mentioned to me more than a few times that it would be nice to add an animated element to my work which I'll endeavour to do before the end of this project. I'll look at using photoshop to make simple animations. I also need to look at adding colour to my work to make it less serious and more engaging to children. I may also look at doing some type and font work based on quotes from famous feminists which could maybe be a part of the book as well?
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