Change of idea and re-write of project proposal.

Picture Book title or theme
Operation Mana.

Idea: What is your picture book about? 

An RAF mission in world war 2 when food was dropped from plains upon a staving village. The village was starving due to the Nazi banning and preventing food from going into it. People where harbouring Jews there and had resorted to eating inedible foods.  They were starving to death and the RAF and a consequence of their action saved millions of lives.




Intent: What are you trying to achieve with the tone and atmosphere of the artwork? 

I want this work to be dark and shocking. When people are looking through it I want them to be able to relate to the humanity aspect of it but I also want them to feel sympathetic but also slightly scared by the starving people. The reason for this is that from looking at image of starving people they don’t look cutie and kind they look sad and desperate and in that respect I want to do an interpretation of this with a very realistic approach.  I don’t want this to be a happy book apart from when they get the food at the end of the book.  I also want to tell it from the villages perspective, but I want to take their situation to the most extreme.



Structure: How might this book function in terms of format, layout and sequence

I need this story to flow well so I am going to be using a consitina format. There will be a path running through the layout of book which will represent the village path and there will be a sequence of image that will portray some of the consequence the village face due to the lack of food and Nazi over rule.



These ideas are based on my research into…
 After a discussion with Frank Tolley an RAF pilot in the war, I have gone on to do some secondary research into what he did. This was when I came across Operation Manna which he was involved in. I then carried out some more research and found articles from people who were in the village and there accounts of the situation.

In order to develop these ideas, over the next few weeks will be….
Experimenting more with paper cutting and comping images using this technique.