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JINAH KIM
PROJECT 2. NARNIA







Newstead Abbey project
: This project is for visitors to Newstead Abbey during Christmas season. There will be a lot of family visitors, especially children.
Therefore, our work had to be at the eye level of the children. We needed to create a work that can interact with children as well as inspire and give them good memories.





Brainstorming



Moodboards
- Narnia
- Tent scene
- Snow scene

Research
- The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe is a book
created by C.s. Lewis in 1950.
- It is part of a series of 7 books.
- All 7 books were illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
- The book has been adapted into a successful movie which premiered 7th December 2005 with a further
two more movies being released in later years.
We researched how life was like in war- time Britain,
in order to know how to dress our piece appropriately.
We looked into books that focused on the home front, focusing on the evacuees, home-guard and posters shown across the UK.
These really helped in getting an idea of the atmosphere/ mood of Britain in the early 1940s.




Initial ideas



We tried to make both a wardrobe that is real-sized and a tent.
However, it was too big to make and needed a lot of time and money.
So, we changed our plan to use three suitcases to show each scene from Narnia.
Final idea

Instead of making the wardrobe, we had a change of our project plan.
We found three old suitcases to creat each scene from Nania and decided to fill each suitcase according to the theme of fantasy and link them together with our ideas.
Our team wanted to present the idea that the story stars from the book, so we made the pieces as an illustrative style and use some pages from the books.
In addition, since a suitcase represents a trip, our work means that we can take a trip through Nania starting from the book.
Snow scene


I made a smaller castle as the template was too big and didn't give enough depth by the trees.


Ideas of painting the castle changed to collage as the scale had to change.
I wanted to use my experiment for the real piece since it also added an ice effect.
Problem solving


We tried snowflake sprinkles to stick in the bottom of the case but it didn’t stick well. So we used cotton wool balls to add plentifulness and stick better.


