OUAN603 - Extended Practice: Sources & Research (Rationale)

OUAN603 - Extended Practice:

Sources & Research (Rationale)

Seeing as my initial idea will be predominantly character based, it made sense to look at some really informative books on character design from the library. After reeling out my ideas to a few friends, some even suggested that Horrible Histories would not only be good to look at from an illustrative/character point of view, but because their content is very similar to what I would like to undertake, so checking out some Horrible Histories books (of which I read plenty as a child so I look forward to revisiting their works) would be incredibly beneficial to the project.

Looking into high school curriculum/syllabus is also another necessary task that must be done as if I am to in any way show this to a high school audience or to get this used by anyone for educational purposes. I will need to look into ethics/appropriateness and as to what I can get away with in terms of humour - humour will be present in my project as not only is it engaging, it will hopefully give it a stylised and quirky atmosphere, just like that of Horrible Histories. I chose a high school audience as not only is Art an independant subject taught at a range of levels, (in comparison to primary levels where art and design are thrown together) high school students from 13-18 will understand and appreciate the humour more in my opinion - you sort of have to "dumb" the jokes down to a very basic level (not to be patronising) if you're aiming at a younger audience which is not something I want to do!

Here are some of the sources I've look at so far:

http://horrible-histories.co.uk/ (TV show and book illustrations)
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/art-and-design/gcse/art-and-design-4200 (Syllabus at GCSE level)
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/art-and-design/as-and-a-level/art-and-design-2200 (Syllabus at A Level)
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/art-history-timeline.html (Basic breakdown of movements)
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art-timeline.htm (More in-depth timeline)