In class exercise: Book

With this in class assignment, we started by having a discussion about stories in general. "What are stories and what makes a story?"  Shared context, time and proximity, audience, tone/attitude/mood and volume.  Stories are shared in the news, told by others, personal stories that shape our perception, life story, depicted through artifacts and photographs, memories tell stories, chronological narrative, fiction generated stories (exaggerated), superstitions/legends/myths/folklores/dances (expressive narrative), art, food, music, architecture, clothing, jewelry, and based on observation. 

Stories can have different outlooks upon them depending on the context and what the story is about. They usually cause a reaction or send a message to inform, entertain, show change, or to share an experience. 

After the discussion we watched a youtube video based on book editor's in the position of the actual children's book maker this time to understand the actual process and time it takes to actually create a children's book. They only had a limited amount of time and materials to make the book of 8 pages or panels. 

Making book:

 -Image/text

-How hard is it to make a children's book

-editor's (making the book)

*rhyming

*pop-ups

*personification

*finger puppets

*journey

*order/structure

*protagonist

*moral

*antagonist

Afterwards, were asked to create small phrases and then choose them at random when we went up together.  After, we got into pairs and were to create a children's book based on the two phrases we chose at random. Me and my group partner got "Be careful for what you wish for" and "a squid" as our phrases to work with.

From there we came up with several ideas for the concept of the story. We had 15 to create the booklet, 15 minutes to storyboard, and 15 minutes to translate the concept onto the zine, and another 15 minutes to finish and finalize any details for the narrative children's book.  

We came up with a story inspired by the ocean and the "Finding Nemo" film to create our zine/ children's book to share with the class. We worked with materials that we had on us at the time to create this in class assignment.