Picture Book Title: Unsure of title, if any title. It may just be title-less.
Idea: What is your picture book about?
My book will show scenes of British woodlands and wildlife in opposition to Tropical wildlife. The tropical wildlife will most likely be pictured in man made environments, I also want to document man made things in natural environments.
Intent: What are you trying to achieve?
I want my book to show human's effect/interaction with nature - showing how man made items are left in natural areas and natural animals and plants are kept in man made places such as zoo's.
Structure: How Might this book function?
I currently stuck between a concertina with both sides filled in - one featuring the British woodlands and one showing the tropical wildlife.
These ideas are based on my research into:
The woodlands by my flat, Canal Gardens and Tropical World.
In order to develop these ideas, my research over Christmas will be:
More trips to woodland areas and back to tropical world, or other places with captive exotic animals.
I may also research into British wildlife.
What have you discovered about research over the last two weeks?
Research comes in many shapes and forms. Going out into the world, watching, photographing, documenting and just experiencing something is all some form of research. Primary research is a lot of fun and a great way of gathering information to develop ideas from.
Which approaches to research did you struggle with?
I struggled with talking to people in my selected environment - in the woods there were not a lot of people there and at tropical world I was just too nervous to approach anyone. It was a bit of a struggle to draw on the spot - wrangling with camera and pens and sketchbook with nowhere to really lean. It was easiest to get photographs to draw from later - but on the spot drawing has such a fluidity to it!
Which approaches to research did you find beneficial?
Most of it really! I didn't find any research I did non-beneficial. Anything that didn't end up being relevant still was good to research at the time.
What do you regret about your approach to research during this brief.
I regret not choosing what to research quicker or just going out and researching loads of places to narrow it down late. I think I could have gotten a lot more interesting material if I had just dived in instead of thinking so much about what I would do.
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