Hello! And so we’ve come to the end of NM2208 and here’s my group’s final project – Fussy Felix and the Food Creatures!
Fussy Felix and the Food Creatures
The group came up with quite a few ideas such as teaching a kid how to behave appropriately in society through food idioms, educating them about a healthy diet by learning how to make a bento box set, and telling them not to waste food because of the hardships that the food cultivators go through. Initially, we had selected to go with the ‘no food wastage’ idea but after an extremely long struggle trying to write the perfect story for kids from 7 to 9 years old, we finally settled with something a bit simpler that adopted the scare tactic while injecting the fantasy element to downplay the fear appeal – to “scare” the kids with the consequences of being picky about their food. I’ll leave it to you to find out what exactly happened to Fussy Felix at the end!
Download ‘Fussy Felix and the Food Creatures’
The final storybook’s is actually a flash e-book that allows the kids to flip the pages, but I can’t upload it here on WordPress, so… Let’s just make do with the PDF format? Heh. Click on the link above to download the final storybook.
I believe one of the major highlights of our storybook is the fact that there’s the fantasy element there – human interacting with fruits, vegetables and all – which keeps children interested in the story. The transitions that are made (real world to fantasy world and back to real world again) allows the children to make certain connections between the moral of the story and their daily lives as well.
Overall, I’m going to wrap up this module by saying that this experience was a good one. Though tiring, I’d say that my group had pretty good chemistry among ourselves and this made the final project an enjoyable experience. Also, everyone had their personal strengths which complemented each other’s and most certainly contributed to the project significantly. I think most groups will probably know what I mean when I say that it’s very difficult to work in a group of 2 people (what more 3, 4 or 5 people) when it comes to design projects because of the conflicting styles and all. But I’m proud to say that my group and other groups managed to brave through this storm and produce beautiful looking storybooks (Cheesy, I know).
Okay, I’m out! Will probably be back if I ever need to blog for academic purposes again! Bye!
