Assignment 7 - Updates

Updated Story:

For a child to better appreaciate and relate to a particular story, we decided to write a story which is similar to a local context. The story will also ideally be based on familar issues and subjects that a child born in Singapore will understand effortlessly.

Therefore to adhere to such a story outline, we created a protagonist named Tommy, and he will go to school and face friendship problems, just like any other kid. Our story line revolves around how Tommy is frustrated by being hit with a bad luck streak. His ill luck had made his the butt of all jokes among this friends. He wishes he could have fun all day and not meet with unfortunate incidents.

In addition, we decided to portray Tommy as a plump character, for being plump would not catergorise him in the mainstream and therefore it would be more likely for him to have less friends. However, we have a lesson behind it, for in spite of being plump, Tommy does have a big heart of gold. He will be our tool in teaching a moral about friendship in the story.

Due to our easy to understand storyline, we used simple sketches throughout the book as the pictorials.

The book comprise of 12 story pages and the target audience would be aged 6 and below (Primary 1 and below). The main setting of the story, which revolves around a school, will allow the child to relate to the plot and the story on the whole better.

All in all, we developed a theme for our project, which will be of a child presenting a hand-made gift to a friend in recognition and acknowledge of their friendship. Therefore, our sketches and drawings plus storyline will fit in nicely with the theme. The project will resemble that of a child's handi-craft.

After brainstorming and coming up with all sorts of fanciful stories, we decided that such a story as Tommy's would best be appropriate to bring a moral to the story. Furthermore, the localised setting and familiar themes will allow the child to better relate to it, which in turn will faciliate in bringing his/her understanding of the story to a higher level.