Monday 4th April

Today, the whole of my foundation course took part in a group crit, this allowed us to look at each others work to understand what they are doing, and give advice on how they could adapt or develop it further.
Peers looking at my work said the following:

• I could use the element of pop up sections in order to censor certain parts of the story- having the truth underneath the pop up section that is revealed as the mechanism is in action.
• Another peer suggested I tried to look at work of a previous student she knew, who created an animation (which I will also do alongside my book). The previous student had created 3D and then animated them with the use of stop-motion. 
• As I am playing with the light and dark side of the story, someone suggested I use contrast and colour in the pages themselves, e.g. the Disney story would be bright, happy colours, and the Brothers Grimm side darker shades and tones.
• Another student developed the pop up idea in terms of how the truth would be revealed- suggested that I should use tracing paper and have the nice illustration on top, then when lifted up there would be the same outline but with a more sinister illustration.
• The use of type could play on the nice and evil themes, I would have to explore the connotations of each type face and how they make the audience feel.
• Instead of having an animation, another peer suggested I could have the old fashioned style wheel rotating animations, maybe even hanging from the ceiling as some sort of installation.
• Someone then suggested instead of having the animation as a stop-motion animation, I could replace it with a flip book.
• I then identified myself as the other group members were asking me questions about my project that I need to look at ways of bookbinding and how I want my book to look.

I then spoke to my tutor briefly about some of the work in my book, she pointed out to me that a lot of the pages in my book were too 'controlled' and that I needed to work on my experimentation. I began by creating a single line drawing that I then worked into with paint.