STARTING POINT DETERMINE THE MATERIAL, AUDIENCE, AND MEDIA The starting point is an open project. When I choosing a topic, I thought for a long time. From the subject matter, I want to make a topic about some social issues, not just a good-looking decorative painting. But there are many social issues. I’m from considering my target audience and starts to narrow this range, for example, if my audience is an animal protectionist, then my theme may choose to protect endangered animals... During this period, I watched a lot of film and television materials such as: Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Home: The Story of a Journey, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, and Michel Debats’ The Travelling Birds ShuyuanLiang’s X-change Season 9, Chai Jing’s ‘Under The Dome’, China’s Pollution Documentary and other short films… In the end, I positioned my audience as a left-behind child because I discovered that the complexity of some social issues is beyond my control. Through the determination of my audience, my topic came into being. It was to help the left-behind children overcome the fear of blackness. The idea was that after watching X-change Season 9, a boy inside the video who has no parents looks after him and he supports a family alone. He was afraid when the night. So he always sings loudly. I feel sad to see it. And I decided to help children overcome the fear of darkness. Taking into account the general family situation of left-behind children, I decided to use books as a carrier rather than other media, Internet or TV, which required extra money. This is a very interesting challenge because it is my first time to write a story and illustrate it. I hope to fill gaps in these areas. In order to be able to make the work before the deadline, the reasonable planning time is obviously necessary.
PICTURE the illustration picture from the book which I made
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