MEGA CRIT / A DIFFERENT IDEA

Before I start, I had an idea on the bus this morning and it's changed everything.

EVERYTHING. I was thinking about the visiting lecturer yesterday (Louise Lockhart, see PPP blog), and her printed products, especially her paper toys, and I thought - these are prints! These are printed pictures, but they're DIFFERENT. They're fun, they're innovative and they're interactive.

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So I'm thinking: bring back Poe's element of mystery. Look again at his first-person perspective that made his horror so personal and terrifying (thanks Ben for sending me in that direction). Make a publication that is more fun, creepy and adventurous than just some pages stapled together. 

I can't make puppets/dolls (in a 3D form, the way I normally do), so I'm going to have to be a bit inventive with the printed product.

THE IDEA IS to make a lift-the-flap sort of book, in the shape of a house. Readers will be able to look inside the haunted house, under the floorboards and inside the walls. I think this would count as one print, and then I'd have four printed card sheets that go alongside it, with characters/backdrops/clothes/objects to be cut out and played with.

I COULD MAKE THIS REALLY DARK.

I could also incorporate the storytelling and narrative by hiding text within the house or following a character through the house from room to room.

I DON'T WANT TO JUST COPY LOUSIE LOCKHART. I know that other people have made lift-the-flap books before and it's not just her idea, but I am concerned that my idea has come straight from seeing her work. I don't want it to be a copy of her design.

Work in Progress

(photo of what I had laid out on the table)

Lots of work to show today! Feeling good that I have TWO exciting ideas and that I can use this opportunity to ask my peers WHICH ONE (yay, getting other people to make decisions for me!)

I finished a little mock-up of my narrative and quickly photocopied it into a book format so I can have that on the table for people to pick up and flip through.

Feedback:

(for once I'm scanning it and not going to rewrite the whole of the feedback, genius Jay)

Some constructive feedback, very happy with the responses I got today. People really liked what I've done and were impressed by the progress I've made.

I asked the question: to go with the storybook or to follow this new idea - the house?

People liked the house, just thought that the book would be easier.

Magpie: 

(the new name for me looking and seeing what other people are doing, collecting things and hopping away back to my nest).

(Megan NW, Sophia and Printing onto fabric! Is that allowed? They didn't specify what stock we use, so why not? 

Since I'm making a publication, this is probably not relevant for me and it doesn't make sense for Poe, but I would love to make a printed textile raven plush if I could (maybe just as an extra product, not for the brief)