OUIL601 - Summative evaluation

Overall I'm quite happy with the final outcome of both the essay and the practical, and the skills that I have gained throughout this module. Even though I had a bit of a unsure start with trying to decide on my essay question, I quickly got into the flow of researching the relevant topics and found that this also helped me to quickly develop the practical elements of my project. After doing research into illustrated educational material and different genres of children's literature, I decided that the most suitable practical solution would be to create a children's story/activity book, as it would allow me to create a narrative that could intertwine education and an engaging story. I intended to create illustrated merchandise, from one of the characters in my book, but I underestimated the amount of time it would take me to actually finish the story to a high enough standard, so this may be something that I come back to in the future, although I didn't get chance to create merchandise or a puzzle book, I feel like my story works very well as a stand alone piece. My research into anthropomorphism taught me that having animals in stories can help children to understand difficult topics and get them to identify with a character. This was one of the reasons I decided to change the main character of my book from a child to an animal, it would fit better with a more simple narrative, and would help me convey the educational element of the narrative better. Because of time constraints I decided that I would use a limited colour scheme and only one medium, that I would finish off digitally, as my initial final images were taking far too much time, and would have ended up being a detriment to the overall quality of the book.