This is a digital artwork Jes and I made for children, it aims to introduce children to instruments families of Woodwind, Strings and Percussion. Instruments presented will be provided with Fun Facts and audio. We’ve also created a story line, where Tiantain the main character will be searching for his “Dream Instrument”. There is also with a multiple-choice question to let students “pick” the instrument for Tiantian.
Last page introduces:
– Tiantian vol. 2 Tiantian’s Journey to become a Piano Master (:
Self Reflection
Some thing we’ve learned through this project of making a children’s book is that we need to think in children’s perspective. There was lots of scratching out ideas, because we’ve found that the language is just not suitable for a children’s book, we naturally use big words, but then we realized that children may have trouble understanding, and make the book boring for them.
And of course there’s the technical problems
The most obvious one is getting to know the software and editing picture, importing audios, and trying out gadgets from iBook and other digital artwork. One of the issue were to get the audio to play the way we want. The audio would sometimes have a pop up window, when we already selected the audio to not pop up… unfortunately this issue ended up not being able to fix..
And also the pictures, first we started cropping out the background in Photoshop, then we found out iBook Author had its own background remover which worked very well.
the purpose of using an iBook rather than a physical copy is that
-digital copies are convenient to carry
-there are options of interactive activities such as audio playback, multiple choice questions, zoom up to picture (which you can add in descriptions) which makes the whole reading experience a lot more fun!
-and of course, it saves the planet (in a way)
The most challenging part of this assignment was that it does not run on Windows D:
so the assignment was done in two whole days, with me visiting Hornsby and using Jes’s computer. Some of the things each of us has done
Tiantian’s character illustration- Jes
image choices all from google – both of us
picture editing/audio importing – me
storybook layout – me
story line/plot – both of us
music selection all from you tube- Jes
one thing we could of improved on the Ebook was editing the audio file so there wouldn’t be a few second of silence