We devised a rough time plan for the brief in order to feel more organized and collected, agreeing to aim to have everything complete by the 10th of May. We thought that it would be sensible to set a long amount of time for this brief in order to do it justice. We want to be as ambitious as possible because we both feel passionate about the subject matter and feel that this project could potentially have a place in real world classrooms or children's book shops.
We also arranged to meet at least once a week to help keep things ticking over.
Initially, we both envisioned this project as being a singular publication. However, today we came up with the concept of producing a series of smaller books which would come packaged in a box of some description and work as a series of stories. I think this is a much better way to approach this brief, as it will ultimately break the information down into bite-size chunks which will hopefully be easier for the target audience of 5 -10-year-olds to understand.
We outlined a number of wide-ranging areas/issues in which we want to address in the books:
Palm oil
Deforestation
Meat production
Overfishing
Throw-away-culture
Minimalist culture
Polar bears
Coral bleaching
Plastic
Buying locally
And then thought it would be appropriate to split the books into different environments, to make them less overwhelming for the audience to read:
Oceans: coral bleaching, overfishing, pollution, rising sea levels
Rainforests: stop buying palm oil, deforestation, cutting down on meat prevents desertification and meat-production
Urbanization: buying locally, consumerism, minimalist culture, waste
We then came up with the idea of embedding some sort of simplistic narratives into the books instead of making them purely factual and statistic based. This was always the loose plan, however, we both agreed that the books would benefit from inventing characters and universal storylines in order to appeal more to the target audience and their parents.
