'Beginnings' Rationale Example

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  1. Good morning everybody.
  2. And welcome to my rationale of my picture book.
  3. My picture book is called beginnings.
  4. And this presentation will include an outline of my picture
  5. book. Also look at the issue, which is really serious
  6. and effects lots of people.
  7. I'll be talking about the language techniques as well as
  8. the visual techniques I use in my illustration.
  9. So in my picture book there, it's a cyclical structure.
  10. So we start on the street in an alleyway and
  11. we finish on the street in an alleyway.
  12. Um, it's also non linear.
  13. So once we start on this on the street, we
  14. actually go back in time and discover why this mother
  15. and her Children are on the streets.
  16. So unemployment being evicted from their home and obviously then
  17. homelessness as a result of those things.
  18. So my social issue was about homelessness, as you have
  19. probably guessed from my very brief outline.
  20. I I'm really passionate about this topic.
  21. I think it's something that we don't see often in
  22. literary texts.
  23. So We have a look at the actual statistics here
  24. and I'm looking at people who are sleeping out or
  25. improvised dwellings intense because they're basically sleeping rough.
  26. And this is 6% of homeless people in Australia.
  27. Um, so how old are they?
  28. Well, I was trying to capture with my family.
  29. So there was the mother, which is obviously in an
  30. older age bracket, but I wanted to capture that 17%
  31. of homeless people who are under 12.
  32. So the two girls are under 12.
  33. Um, who are they?
  34. So most of them are so 32.4% of Australian sleeping
  35. rough are women.
  36. So that's why I selected a female um as the
  37. victim of domestic violence and the Children are also female
  38. because I wanted to capture those particular People and why
  39. are they homeless?
  40. So in this case, 25% of people homeless due to
  41. domestic violence.
  42. And that was what I was trying to match in
  43. my book.
  44. So some of the language techniques that I used were
  45. the short sentences.
  46. So you can see here, I've got an example from
  47. mine where I said the electricity got cut off.
  48. I find that short sentence can really show the abrupt
  49. end of something.
  50. So I really wanted to kind of, I guess indicate
  51. here it was the start of them not being able
  52. to pay their rent, not being able to pay their
  53. bills and the pathways that lead them onto the street.
  54. Some of these other books here, Who knows Garden and
  55. the island.
  56. So they left was in Yunos garden and it was
  57. about the people just suddenly leaving the location.
  58. They've done all the damage and they just left.
  59. So that sense of abandonment there as well as he
  60. wasn't like them in the island where the character, it's
  61. just very straight to the point he was foreign.
  62. And it made that xenophobia kind of be very overt
  63. in this text.
  64. The second language technique I used was metaphors.
  65. I love a good metaphor.
  66. The girl still went to school.
  67. The oldest one encouraging her little sister along by gently
  68. pulling her skinny little hand just like adults.
  69. Um obviously that's actually a similar not a metaphor.
  70. Um actually I think all of these uh similes.
  71. Um so I wanted to allude to the idea of
  72. the sister being a dull because adults something that is
  73. it. We have the affection forum we look after and
  74. we nurture even though they're inanimate object, we protect them.
  75. And I wanted to bring in the idea of mending
  76. Lucille. So the little girl's mother has left and her
  77. dolls broken because her mom's left.
  78. And so I wanted to capture that sort of idea
  79. of a dull being broken or damaged or needing look
  80. needing to be looked after.
  81. Also they smelt like forgotten things was a line from
  82. my picture book and some things are like that.
  83. He paused for dramatic effect.
  84. Just plain lost.
  85. So the lost thing again, with the metaphor, I was
  86. trying to allude to the idea that they were no
  87. longer a part of society.
  88. So they were no longer welcome into the community.
  89. They no longer had the support structure they no longer
  90. had at home.
  91. And I think that this quote from the loss thing
  92. kind of captures that idea that some people do get
  93. lost. Not just homeless people, but lots of other people
  94. uh just forgotten in society.
  95. So I think that that was something that really appealed
  96. to me is that idea of being lost and also
  97. wanting them to be found at the end.
  98. The other one was a liberation.
  99. So the girl could sometimes smell the burning flesh and
  100. fear and she walked back to her daughters who had
  101. waited silently staring.
  102. So I couldn't actually find a lot of alliteration in
  103. other picture books which I had read.
  104. And so I just put my own in and I'll
  105. just explain those.
  106. So I wanted to show a sense of disgust with
  107. the flesh and fear um of the girl's father, what
  108. had happened to him as a child.
  109. And so I just wanted to combine those ideas of
  110. of burning flesh and fear being really intertwined and connected
  111. and I've used illiterate alliteration to achieve that.
  112. And also she walked back to her daughters who had
  113. waited silently staring and this was at the moment where
  114. they are just about to be um I guess saved
  115. from the streets and safe from homelessness.
  116. And this was a way that I wanted to capture
  117. the almost awaiting the girls waiting.
  118. Um it's really hard.
  119. I guess you've got so many limited choices when homeless
  120. and so really they're so vulnerable that all they're doing
  121. is just basically waiting for somebody to help them.
  122. Mhm. The visual techniques that I have used uh salience
  123. and symbolism.
  124. Um so I've used the red color here to show
  125. that this family is like they're cloaked by violence and
  126. I like this photo here where the the boy is
  127. in the red hoody.
  128. So we kind of feel like there's some sort of
  129. bling or domestic violence or something that has happened to
  130. this person.
  131. The rule of thirds.
  132. I also put pictured the this family in the bottom
  133. third to show that they were vulnerable, just as in
  134. this, nobody understands oil acrylic and wax pencil on paper
  135. by Shaun Tan, which will be familiar.
  136. Yeah. As well as the use of vectors.
  137. So, in mending Lucille, I've used another example from that,
  138. this time, a visual um the shape of the mother
  139. is actually ripped out and I wanted to show that
  140. something is missing and in this way I wanted to
  141. show that almost everything.
  142. So I wanted to bring attention to this family, but
  143. I wanted to show that that structure of society is
  144. missing. Mhm.
  145. So in summary, I have considered a lot of the
  146. different visual techniques and language techniques that were used in
  147. other books, picture books and I was hoping and my
  148. aim was to actually raise awareness for kids who are
  149. living in poverty and particularly those that are homeless.
  150. Yeah. And these are the references.
  151. Yeah. Oh