For this Project we were tasked to develop a full representation of an assigned character. My teams character was a single father who owned a business as a librarian and he read to children. our goals were to show this character for what they truly are and show what they do for a living as well as creating a setting or even audio within the characters life.
We chose to name our character "Peter Cook." Peter is 41 years old born on August 12 1984. His occupation is a community librarian at the New Kersey Library for children. He enjoys being kind and helpful to people, even those who don't deserve it. He has 3 children, Aurora (the eldest), Amelia (middle), and Oliver (youngest). His wife sadly passed away during Oliver birth, yet Peter still tries his best to put a smile on his kids faces during these hard times. Peter is originally from Birmingham, United Kingdom, and he likes to inspire other kids by reminding them that life is a beautiful thing, as he continues to write more children books, peter stays with this job to see the overjoyed and content look on his students faces during story time, teaching them to explore their imagination.
To illustrate our character's avatar, we used the app Ibis-Paint to create Peter and his children's look. Using various tools to blend in their facial features together and have some similar character traits. Aurora looks more like her mother, Amelia looks like a combination of both her parents, and Oliver looks closer to his father (Peter). We also used their favorite colors in representation with their avatar. As every character would have a color to show case them. Peter's favorite color was green, his photo included his casual wear in a simple green cardigan, Green represents Peter, as it symbolizes a range of positive growth as well as the feeling of calmness and safety. This shows Peter's matureness towards his children since he is now a single father. Aurora's color is purple, it embodies her as the color symbolizes wisdom and maturity as well as her creativity and imagination. In comparison, Amelia's favorite color is pink, symbolizing playfulness and innocence, as Amelia is 7 years old, pink is often associated with tenderness and compassion. Yet, in contrast with his sisters, Oliver's favorite color is blue. representing happiness, tranquility and peace towards an unknown subject. Even though Oliver never really knew his mom, this color represents that he has made peace with the death of his mother.
Oliver Cook
We organized our characters elements into a Canva project, setting up a interactive staton we created to have a more playful station. Our tactile representation was our "scavenger hunt," which included fun questions about our characters. Our Canva project included a narration of Peter's favorite things, as well as his workspace and his children. The project was told form Peter's own perspective throughout the entire presentation with some auditory music in the background to fully engulf the player into our characters world.
For our presentation I liked our execution for our descriptions and activities for our characters. The way we developed our character was highly effective, as each group member added ideas to connect into one character. It showed that working together can be abundantly effective and helpful when working on this project. Yet even though i think it was really good overall, some things i would change or improve are the amount of tactile representation, t could have been more interactive with the audience immersing them more into Peters world. Yet since we only had a voice of our man character narrating the story, i would have like to hear maybe something a little more exciting like specific music that represents our characters life. My group members worked well as we all helped each other collaborating with ideas within our character. My members and I could improve some organization as we would be confused sometimes as to what the other person was doing or working on. Overall the activity was highly encouraging and engaging, allowing many to be create in their representations.
Links to Our Project-
Folder to see our avatar's descriptions
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