For the chosen media, it is publishing because of the project being pop up. For our project, we had to choose a scene from a fairy tales story and re-create it as a pop-up. The story I have chosen is Snow White and the 7 dwarfs and the scene I chose was the coffin scene where the prince wakes her up from her death like sleep. For my project, i also gave the story a bit of a twist. So for my story, i re-wrote the ending as Snow White did end up dying by suffocation by being in the coffin for so long and the prince finally finds her but too late. He's half a vampire and using his gift he turns Snow White into a vampire and them both living a long and happy life. The dwarfs stayed her friend up until their dying days.
This type of scene I think people who are interested in either fairy tales like Snow White or vampires they would like this pop up to other them might find it interesting.
At the start of the project Steve came us a variety of different pop up for us to look at, my favourite one was the sleeping beauty, the way it was on black paper used for the popup it looked like shadows, it was simple and really nice. Another cool one was the pop up with sounds and light, now the pop up alone were amazing and the lights were a nice touch just maybe it didn't need sound but it does depend on what others think about it.
Choosing our fairy tale I was originally going to do Pinocchio, The idea was to re-create the scene at the end where Jiminy cricket got his badge, become a conscience, but it was trying to come up with which parts should pop up. I then decided to look for a different tale and went for Snow White and went for the coffin scene, because we could add our own twist to it and with that scene I could definitely come up with my own idea for the coffin scene.
With that idea, Next was to look up other snow white pop up books with the coffin scene. That turned to be a bit of a challenge because one there wasn't a lot and two most coffin scene either didn't happen or I would just get a normal book without the pop-up art. I had at least 3 books that including the Disney version and another way was using youtube to find a video of someone using the pop-up.
I wanted to look at snow White pop up coffin scenes so that I could see how other had created their scene's. And with what I got I found two with different ways but similar. The coffin always attached to both pages so that you would have to keep one page up to keep coffin looking pop up and not flat.
On youtube, I also came across an Alice in Wonderland book and it was the tea party caught my attention. The way the table pop up and went down and that was how I was going to have my coffin. The idea was the coffin stuck across both pages and have the sides go down.
I then went on to drawing snow white, the prince and one dwarf and try to come up with a different style, so that it didn't look like the Disney version or any of the book version. That wasn't that hard to do and didn't take me that long to come up with a design for the characters.
For the characters I wanted to give it a bit of a dark twist, but given that I had to actually re-write the ending and show it on my pop up, I ended up changing it a bit because I couldn't come up with a story and so I changed it so that it was similar to the actual ending but just had it that Snow white did die and instead of awakening by a kiss she gets bitten in the neck by a half vampire prince.
Re-writing the ending was actually very easy to do, mainly because once I started writing it I couldn't stop and with ideas' coming to me I got it all written in one lesson, I then used Grammarly to check my spelling and grammar. Once that was done I then added it to the sheet of paper I wrote on and then copied it into my book, the page of the book I use for the pop-up.
Starting the pop-up scene I had drawn out where everything would go to make it easier to just to stick down. Starting with the coffin I realised that Snow white won't work because it more how she would stay up, so I ended up moving the coffin so that the back stuck to the left page and the base was stuck down on the right page. Next was to cut out the rest of the characters. The dwarfs were the annoying because I had to cut out 7 of them they drew their faces on. I also added a bit of grass, flowers and a tree as pop up to add a bit of detail.
Next challenge was to come up with a way to make they pop up. For the prince I added a long folded piece of paper on the back of the price and stuck the end piece on the page, it was so that when the page was open he would pop up, but it didn't go to plan because the paper was to short and it kept him flat. For everything else, I kept it that it bent near the feet and stuck that down. With Snow White, I stuck her back to the left page so that she would be sat in her coffin.
Lastly, I then added colour to make it nicer, I tried to create a forest on the left page, my only problem was trying to not go overboard. Also on the middle part, it has a white patch, why it's still white is because I didn't know how to cover it. I know with forest when in a picture you see trees after tree after tree, also you got grass and sky. Now I thought I had enough trees and started adding the sky and grass but I didn't want to have half the paged blue and the other green because I don't think it would look right. Like other pictures they can have it that it looks like you're looking into the further part of the forest but I can't do that so I left it how it was because I thought it looked ok but if I were to do it again I will use google or youtube to help me draw the forest.
Finished results, I think it looks good, I think the colour makes it stand out and makes it look a lot better then what it did look like without. I really like my characters I think they look good. What I think could have been better is the pop-up. Because of the thin paper used for the characters, they stay flat even when you open the book, which I think is because of the paper that I used, so if I were to do this project again I would use a different martial.
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