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| After reviewing my earlier concepts i feel these need improving on. I have established that I want to include interactive elements, which I have worked on. But although interesting ideas, they come more across as activity books. I feel i need to include some sort of generic character that a child can relate to; Everybody can relate to a grandparent this is why i've included a grandfather into this concept. The child reading the book plays themselves, This will give them the sense of control over the book, making it more enjoyable. The first DP spread asks the child to help the Grandad find the vegetables. Again this makes it seem that the child has the control, on the following page it asks which item to search for, in this cue, a carrot. There will be various different flaps, pop ups and pull outs to explore to find the carrot. This will teach the child where to forage for the different products. As this is aimed at 5-7 year olds, i think it's important to start on a basic level and the adult character shows that supervision is needed. On the second DP spread will be a pop up carrot to give the child a sense of achievement. as discussed before i would like to use a painted collage affect but this will be explored further. |
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Concept Progression
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Hi Claire - good to see that you've progressed your idea from feedback received in session. A couple of points to mention -
ReplyDeleteI think the activity / interactive approach as we've seen with other titles works well for this age group. The Grandpa character is quite a nice way to gently communicate the information as he ties in with the idea that he's older and more knowledgable about the subject. As you've mentioned you get around the issue of alienating either girls or boys as the reader (whatever their gender) is Grandpa's helper which is quite a nice way to engage them in the book. You may want to look at the content though as carrots aren't generally found growing in the wild. The purpose of the book is for children to be introduced to the idea that there is food growing outside the confines of their own house / garden.