Post-Graduate Learning Agreement

0604383 YUNG-HUA, TOU (ELISA)
MA Graphic Design & Communication (Research Pathway)
UCCA EPSOM

A. Time management

1. Short Term

Week 01 (11 Feb) - Secondary research
Week 02 (18 Feb) - Secondary research
Week 03 (25 Feb) - Presentation 1
Week 04 (03 Mar) - Primary research (Taiwan)
Week 05 (10 Mar) - Primary research (Taiwan)
Week 06 (17 Mar) - Primary research (Taiwan)
Week 07 (24 Mar) - Primary research (Taiwan)
Week 08 (31 Mar) - Primary research (Taiwan)
Week 09 (07 Apr) - Primary research (Taiwan)
Week 10 (14 Apr) - Storyboard
Week 11 (21 Apr) - Presentation 2
Week 12 (28 Apr) - Study Plan & Reflective appraisal
Week 13 (05 May) - Study Plan & Reflective appraisal
Week 14 (12 May) - Hand-in

2. Long Term

Feb – Secondary Research
Mar – Primary Research
Apr – Organizing everything
May – Finish the Storyboard
June – Drawing
July – Finish Drawing
Aug – Layout & Print
Sep – Graduation Show

B. Research Methods

1. Secondary research
a. Web-based sources
I searched the internet for others’ works on the two stories I am going to combine - ‘Little Red Riding Food’ and ‘Auntie Tigress’, and I found lots of interesting things not only books, films, animations, but also advertisings, songs, musicals…etc. That gave me a roughly background of how these two stories going on in the world. Besides this, I also got tons of information of Hakka culture which I am going to concentrate working on. Web-based research had buildup a database for me.
b. Books
I read a lot of children’s picture books about the wolves and the tigers to know what people describe these two monsters in the stories nowadays. I read books about Hakka culture to make sure the pictures I am going to draw is correct in details including buildings, foods, costumes…etc. I read books about Illustration for Children, how to make picture books for children, and writings for children to help me with the making part.
c. Film
I watched movies and animations to find out how they setup the character of a bad guy in a story, how they run threw the story in certain logic and temple to make the audience involve and goes in to the story.
d. Exhibition
I went to a few exhibitions to look at illustrations - ‘The Age of Enchantment’, ‘V&A Illustration Award’. I looked at how the cultural differences influence people’s thoughts and behavior in ‘Laughing in a Foreign Language’, and also looked at the Hakka cultural in the exhibition in Hakka Museum. Seeing things that are going on the world made me rethink about what I am doing and do some adjust to make it better.
e. Newspapers / Magazines
I did look at newspapers and magazines, however I did not find anything related to the subject that I am doing now.

2. Primary research
a. Discussion
I discussed my idea with a design agency, a animation studio, and some of my friends and get lots of feedback from them. I found it very useful to discuss my project with someone else because they had never heard it before so that they will easily point out what is missing or what does not really make sense.
b. Interview
I had an interview with a musical composer named Liu Shueh-Shuan on 09 Apr 2008. It helped me a lot because I basically got the same idea with him to take two different stories from the East and the West and try to create a new adaptation.
c. Photography
Because I am going to create a Hakka atmosphere in my picture book, so I went to Hakka Museum and the Hakka village in Taiwan to see what they’ve got and how they live.
d. Test
I will test these stories on Kirsten’s daughter and find other children to test on. It will help me to know their respond directly.

C. Reflective Appraisal

The main purpose of my project is to emphasis the cultural differences in the West and the East. I will combine two stories- ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Auntie Tigress’ and create a new adaptation.

I found out that the monster who represents the bad guy appears differently in England and in Taiwan. In the U.K., people usually take wolves as the bad guy while in Taiwan, people usually take tigers as the bad guy. For children in the West, tiger normally plays a friendly character. That is why I want to bring the story ‘Auntie Tigress’ into the West, to let children in the West knows that Tigers are as horrible as the Wolves. I decided to let ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ plays the role that bringing them into the East, meet the Auntie Tigress and take part in the story. This will be easier for children to go into the story because it is let by Little Red Riding Hood, who they are familiar with. I would like to introduce the Hakka culture in my story, for that the story ‘Auntie Tigress’ is originally from Hakka culture. There are unique buildings, costume, Food, …etc. in their lives. It is a good opportunity to bring these into the West.

I then started to look at plenty of others’ works on these two stories with secondary research method. I search the Internet, read books, watch films…etc to gather much information as I could. This became a database which let me know how other illustrators work on these two stories. Afterwards I started to discuss with my tutor and my friends, I found it very useful to talk to people, it helps me to clarify my thoughts, and the feedback they gave usually made the whole project more logic and reasonable. Then I go back to Taiwan for Primary research during the Easter Holiday. I talked to Hakka people, went to the Hakka Village and the Hakka Museum, see how they live and what they do everyday. This is important for my next step – drawing, because I will need to create a world in Hakka culture in my picture books. I talked to a design agency called ‘Drama Graphic Design’ who suggested me to do something else besides the picture book and manage it like a brand. I also talked to an animation studio called ‘Dancing Ink Pictures’ who suggested me to do a short film as an advertising to sell the book. Then I had an interview with ‘Liu Shueh Shuan’, who did a musical combining ‘Auntie Tigress’ and ‘Peter and the wolf’. He basically got the same idea as mine, but we chose different story for the West. We discussed about the difficulties he had run through when he did this and gave me advises that helped me a lot to develop my idea.

‘If you goes into the story, your value rule will change, and your moral outlook will change as well. If the main character is a good man, you will be afraid that he will be killed by the bad guy. In the other hand, if the main character is a bad guy, you will be afraid that he will be caught by the police. That is because we see the world through the main character’s eyes, we understand him, so even if he does something bad, there must be a good reason he is doing this.’
- ‘Good Picture Books, What & How?’ Haw Gung Tsai (2006) p.39

This paragraph above influenced me a lot. I started to look at those stories say that a man looks like a bad man might not really so bad and a man looks like a good man might not so good. They made good people looked like a bad people in the beginning and turn the whole story over in the end, and they made bad people looked like a good one and do exactly the same thing. The one interests me the most is ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs’ by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith in 1991. That is how I got the idea of creating two stories in different perspective- one from the good guy and the other from the bad guy.

I made some changes from the original story. The first thing is the name ‘Auntie Tigress.’ Because of I want to combine the story with ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and bring it to the U.K., so I think it will be better to make it ‘Granny Tigress’. It’s not changing the original story because the ‘Auntie’ Tigress actually means ‘Grand auntie’, who is the sister of granny. Second, the thing that Granny Tigress was eating. In the original story it was little brother’s finger she was eating, but I don’t want anyone to get hurt, so I changed it into Chips. After having a tutorial with Kirsten, I decided to change it again into sausages, it will be more logical this way.

Now I already finished the research part and the storyboard. I plan to test these two stories on children to see how they react with the terrifying Granny Tigress and the innocent Granny Tigress. Then I will start to draw the picture books which will be 32 pages each. I plan to finish this in July, and take August as the month to layout and to print.

I found out that the research journey is keep moving in a circle: find out something, look at it, think about it, do something with it, then find something new, look at it, think about it, do something else with it. It is exactly what Alverno’s framework for self assessment: Observation -> Analysing interpreting -> Judging -> planning -> Observation … .

D. Tutorials (Tutorial Logs Attached)

1. 04 Feb 2008 with Damian Chapman
I was trying to do something in graphic which is related to the music. So that I looked at ways of documenting sound and artist who are inspired by music.

2. 18 Feb 2008 with Damian Chapman
I wanted to do illustrations and music, but I could not get my friend send the music to me quickly.

3. 21 Feb 2008 with Damian Chapman
I run into this idea of combining the two stories from the West and the East – ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Auntie Tigress’.

4. 03 Mar 2008 with Nick Gorse
Nick suggested me start to watch movies and animations and look at bad guys / monsters in them. I also thought about what media and style I will use.

5. 10 Mar 2008 with Damian Chapman
I had an idea that Auntie Tigress might be actually a good man. Damian suggested me to read more about those stories that give more details and discover the fact behind the dairy tales, for example, ‘The True Story of Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf’

6. 09 Apr 2008 with Liu, Shueh Shuen
Liu talked about his work and shared his idea, experience, and the difficulties that he run into when he did the musical ‘Auntie Tigress and Peter’s wolf’. He suggested me to keep it simple and easy for children to read.

7. 14 Apr 2008 with Jackie Parkinson
Jackie looked at my project and asked me to decide two perspectives as soon as possible because I am a little behind. She also remind me to beware of my time management.

8. 21 Apr 2008 with Damian Chapman
I finished two stories in different perspective. Damian asked me to start working on the storyboard. He also talked about how to prepare for the second presentation and the PGLA.

9. 29 Apr 2008 with Kirsten Alldred
We looked through the two stories I wrote, correct the grammar and made certain points clearer. Kirsten suggested me to change the ‘chips’ into ‘sausages’ to make the whole story more reasonable.

E. Research Sources

1. Books
‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs’ Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (1991)
‘The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig’ Eugene Trivizas (2002)
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Ian Beck (2002)
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Na-Ae Choi (2006)
‘A Cultivated Wolf’ Becky Bloom (2002)
‘Hoe Ruim Je Een Wolf Uit De Weg?’ Clement Chabert (2006)
‘Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf’ Catherine Storr (2007)
‘Lagneau Qui Ne Voulait Pas ?tre Un Mouton’ Didier Jean (2006)
‘C’est Moi Le Plus Fort’ Mario Ramos (2006)
‘Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner?’ Cathy Tincknell, Dug Steer, and John Kelly (2006)
‘Beware of the Story Book Wolves’ Lauren Child (2003)
‘Tiger in the Snow’ Nick Butterworth (2007)
‘What Friends do Best’ Jonathan Emmett and Nathan Reed (2004)
‘Lan Po Po’ Ed Young (1992)
‘Auntie Tigress and Other Favourite Chinese Folk Tales’ Eva Wang (2007)
‘Auntie Tigress’ Li Han Wen (2003)
‘Auntie Tigress’ Lin Yu Shan (2000)
‘Santa Claus and Auntie Tigress’ Yen Na, Yen Shueu (1998)
‘The Mouse Bridge’ Chang Ling-Ling (1992)
‘Rat, Cow, Tiger, and Rabbit’ Eva Wang (2005)
‘A Tiger Who Repay’ Chen Chi Gang (2008)
‘Blue Shirts and Paper Umbrella’ Dai Bow Twang (2006)
‘Hakka Culture and Hakka Spirit’ Lo Yung (2006)
‘Blue Shirts and the Crafts’ Cheng Hue Mei (2006)
‘Happy Birthday, Winnie!’ Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul (2008)
‘Chinese Festival Tales’ Wind Music (2004)
‘The Gruffalo Song and Other Songs’ Julia Donaldson (2005)
‘Writing Bestselling Children’s Books’ Alexander Gordon Smith (2007)
‘Ideas for Children’s Writers’ Pamela Cleaver (2005)
‘Children’s Writers’ & Illustraters’ Market U.K.2008-09’ David & Charles (2007)
‘Writing a Children’s Book’ Pamela Cleaver (2004)
‘How to Write for Children’ Louise Jordan (2007)
‘Writing for Children’ Allen Freain Jones & Lesley (2006)
‘First Fairy Tales’ Margaret Mayo and Selina Young (2004)
‘The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration’
Angus Hyland, Michelle Thompson, Kate Gibb, and Ian Wright (2006)
‘Play Pen: New Children’s Book Illustration’ Martin Salisbury (2007)
‘Good Picture Books, What & How?’ Haw Gung Tsai (2006)

2. Films / Animations
‘Auntie Tigress’ PTS & S4C (2000)
‘Auntie Tigress’ Liu Shuen Shuan (2005)
‘Auntie Tigress and Peter’s wolf’ Liu Shuen Shuan (2006)
‘The Auntie Tigress’ Min Shyang Tu (2007)
‘Auntie Tigress’ Chang Wei Ling (2007)
‘Auntie Tigress’ Alice Wang (2005)
‘Auntie Tigress’ French Fries’ Hou Gang Ben
‘The Company of Wolves’ Neil Jordan (1984)
‘Yogi Bear – Hoodwinked Bear’ Hanna Barbera Studios (1961)
‘Hoodwinked’ Cory Edwards (2005)
‘Alice in Wonderland’ Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (1951)
‘A Series of Unfortunate Events - End Credit’ Lemony Snicket (2004)
‘Monster House’ Gil Kenan (2006)
‘Raining Cats and Dogs’ Jacques-Remy Firerd (2005)
‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Tim Burton (1993)
‘Shrek the Third’ Chris Miller, Raman Hui (2007)
‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ Guillermo Del Toro (2006)

3. Exhibitions
‘V&A Illustration Award’ 2007 05 Mar 2008
‘Hakka Museum’ 10 Apr 2008
‘Laughing in a Foreign Language’ 05 Mar 2008
‘The Age of Enchantment’ 02 Feb 2008

4. Websites
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/culture_c/hakka.htm
http://www.ktps.tp.edu.tw/hakka/report.htm
http://www.kejia.com.tw/
http://www.hakka.gov.tw/
http://www.hakka.tpc.gov.tw/web/Home
http://tung.hakka.gov.tw/hakka/internet/index.aspx#c
http://hala.bz/read.php?tid=158136&page=e
http://www.06cn.com/uploads/ftp/sucai/audio/jdetgq/%BB%A2%B9%C3%C6%C5.mp3
http://tiger33.myweb.hinet.net/newbook1.htm
http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/art/tank/LessonPlans/plan086_aunt_tiger/086.htm
http://www.geocities.com/liushuehshuan/
http://www.pts.org.tw/~web02/26_animation/tw.htm
http://www.twbbs.net.tw/1418226.html
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%99%8E%E5%A7%91%E5%A9%86
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Little_Red_Riding_Hood
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/teensy/20280834
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/teensy/20288731
http://yufuhome.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html
http://addoneegg.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.tudou.com/

F. Research Methods & Projected Outcomes

1. Secondary research
a. Web-based sources
p.6-13, 16-19, 33, 34-47, 50-60, 62-63
b. Books
p.3-5, 14-15, 23-25, 32-33, 61, 64-65
c. Film
p.8-12, 16-22, 50-60,
d. Exhibition
Documenta

2. Primary research
a. Discussion
p.67-71
b. Interview
p.66
c. Photography
p.34-47