Fantasy Book š
- HuiYueTan
- Sep 28, 2017
- 4 min read
Fantasy book is my 2nd assignment for CTS . It's a non-verbal book which I need to express myself in a visualise form. I've chosen to express myself in aspect of Intuition and Emotion out of the four aspect - Emotion,Personality,Attitude and Intuition.Although this assignment looks similar to the Self-introduction 'letter' but It's quite challenging for me to express myself non-verbally. At first , I thought of making collages because it's easier to make but then I found that collages are way more difficult to express the aspect of intuition and it's less interactive, so I decided to challenge myself to make somethings different even in a more difficult way such as putting mechanism into a flat paper.
This is my fantasy book and IDJ

I named my fantasy book as <ME-OW> , which the ME represent myself and the whole word MEOW that sounds like cat represent the cat.This mean that I'm part of the cat.
I chose cat for the main character of my fantasy book because cat are very sensitive animal, just like me. I use my own photo and cat photo to make a simple collage as my cover because I feel that it's more directly telling others that this book is about me and I'm using cat to express myself.
Making Process and problem I faced
I've chosen to use fabric for my first page of fantasy book because I like the feel of touching the fabric like the children's book that I have last time (also to fulfil my own wish that I wanted to create my own book with fabric once but I never make it until now , and tadaaa).
Everything going well at first but then I just realised that fabric are impossible to punch hole by puncher, even also difficult to create hole by cutter or scissor. I almost gave up this idea but then at last I still manage to overcome this problem because I so wanted to complete my bucket list to fulfil my own childhood dream, and I found a straw in my bag and I make use of it by cutting it to small piece and I add glue to it and stuck it into the irregular small space that I cut by scissors and it works, and to make sure it stay, I still decided to sew it up to ensure the straw won't get out. Another lesson learnt is that fabric and manilla card are very hard to sew together because not easy for needle to pass through it , so I need to spend time to make hole at the hard paper first then just sew them together.

Originally I want to make the hand and head attached together to that fish so that I doesn't need to turn the hand up separately but then it only work on the prototype because of my own wrong estimation and measurement, if I make it so, the fish that act as the pull button can't function. So, I'm forced to changed to this mechanism due to running out of time and I have no extra time to try out other complicated way in my mind that might work.
Sad incident also happen on this mechanism. Because of I forget about that the pop up mechanism will eat up the space that originally that white paper with transparent sheet will go , I decided to remove the white sheet and transparent sheet after a few adjustment and edition because I've already fixed the pop up mechanism by UHU before I realise this problem. I wanted to show that the cat are looking to inside of the space through the transparent sheet but then I need to change to plan b to express it.šš©š
I made two mistake on this that I forget about that the cat will be upside down due to that it's fixed on the same position and the mechanism move like a compass. and also I realised that the body of the cat will hit the binding ring and caused it to stuck. So, I cut out the cat body and left the head are movable š (Cat's owner which is my friend complained that I'm so cruel to her cat but yet she laughing nonstop on the other side of phone šš¤£š¤£)
<ME-OW>
COVER PAGE

FIRST PAGE
The first page represent my personality . The interaction way is to pull the stick down and the picture will flip. The combination of my face and cat face slowly show that I'm becoming a cat (the main character of this book). The crown show that the cat personality that take it ownself as Queen.
INTUITION
SECOND PAGE
Before moving the mechanism, it's a cute bunny holding a fish (gift for the cat), the bunny seems nice , but the cat's intuition (represent by the cat head attached to transparent slip) saw the bad intention under the nice appearance.
This is to show that I have a good intuition, I can always sense good or bad a person is without them doing anything . My instinct never lies.
THIRD PAGE
Third page are related to the second page. The cat's face expression and body languages show that the cat are suspecting about the bunny and ready to run.
The cat head show that the instinct of the cat telling it to run away to a safer place (behind the wall which mean where people can't hurt it).
This show that my intuition not only that to sense good or bad of a person also tells me where to go and what to do.
EMOTION
FOURTH PAGE

This page show that I'm always thinking too much and even overthinking about something I'm afraid of. The scene shows the reality,the transparent sheet represent my thought and the content on the transparent sheet represent what I'm overthinking and FEAR about.
The ghost represent my fear to ghost , fear to be alone and the red emoji, bloody hand and blood drop represent I'm fear that anyone going to harm me.
FIFTH PAGE

This page show my happiness. I'm always happy when there's FOOD !
Food is the biggest source of my happiness because I'm a foodie :P
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