year long project - 3rd year

 A week ago today I visited the story museum in Oxford for some inspiration! I attended a short movie on the history of stories in Oxford and whilst it wasn't that inspirational one thing definitely prevailed from it - the famous, successful books are those set in a world created by the author/illustrator which can't be a coincidence! It makes sense - a world of imagination and excitement to draw the reader in and make them excited to read more. For the idea I have now (getting onto that fully soon enough) there does need to be a connection/relation to the real world for it to make sense but nothing would prevent me from basing it around the 'ideal world' and how to achieve it! Here are a few photos I took at the museum that inspired me: (not in chronological order but it works well enough) This was the first room in the museum, that you are led into by a worker at the museum - after you have chosen a character to be which is an important thing to note - who has taken o...

 With a mind map, that started slow and then suddenly took off! During the summer up until now (June & July) I had many ideas on what I could do and got them all down on paper alongside my general interests, to build upon. I then went to the story museum in Oxford jn the hopes of gaining a bit inspiration which is when the mind map really took off: Straight away I had decided it was going to be a children’s book, with pop-up/interactive elements because I really enjoyed my final project last year and I want to expand on the skills I learnt! Initially I thought about connecting the emotional side of being a kid - wanting to grow up like yesterday, wanting freedom, wanting to do everything your older siblings or parents are doing, compared with pretty much every adult that wants to be a kid again! Or looking at ways in which kids can accept who they are and embrace potential differences as opposed to feeling as if they need to be the same as everyone else to be accepted. These ar...