Wednesday, March 12, 2014

How to get people totally interested in my Project

So the purpose, I believe, of this second part to our final Wonder is to present our idea in a cool and attractive way to get people to want to look into it more.  My project is about an author (Brandon Sanderson) and his books, and my paper is about how he is able to create some cool memorable awe-inspiring books and wonder-inducing novels, the techniques he uses to do so, and why everybody should go out and read his books right now.

So how could I make him and his books seem as awesome as they are?  What project would be able to convince those people that neutral to these books to read them?  I had a few thoughts.  One would be artwork.  Here's a couple of fan art pictures from Sanderson's books:

http://inkthinker.deviantart.com/art/Mistborn-Adventure-Game-252385532“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.” “In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.” "It streamed through the air, pulled in visible streams, like glowing columns of luminescent smoke. Twisting and turning and spiraling like tiny funnel clouds until they slammed into him."“Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?” Source: [x]
But the question is, how would I present these images?  In a mosaic, or a slideshow, or a Prezi? (Prezis are cool.)  Would it be electronically shown, a poster, or what?  And would it all be just other peoples art work?  That seems pretty sketch, no pun intended, because I don't even have rights to them.  And I'm not an artist, so I couldn't exactly make my own artwork. That's not something I'm good at.

But you know what I AM good at?  Making games.   Not video games, like Paul's project is about.  But I love making tabletop games.  From what Professor Burton said last class about doing something we're passionate about, I thought to myself, I'm passionate about board game and card game making, I can do that.  So my project could be a really fun and cool card game based on one of Sanderson's books.  Or two or more of his books combined.  Oh, that would be cool!  And you could have different magic systems fighting each other, and each would have different strengths and weaknesses.  Sorry, got a little carried away.  But that's another idea.


My final idea would be creating a video.  Kind of like a mood trailer.  For those of you who don't know what a mood trailer is, it's a movie trailer that sets the mood for the book.  Fictional, although I don't know if they have to be fictional.  Anyway, here's a fan made mood trailer for the fictional Mistborn movie based off the non-fictional book, in the sense that it actually exists as a book, no the the book is a work of non-fiction, Mistborn.


So I could do one of those.  Here's a video of me doing a mood trailer for a fictional Book of Mormon movie.  Yeah, it's pretty sweet.  So what if I took the best from both videos and made a super cool epic mood trailer featuring my voice talking about why Brandon Sanderson's books create a sense of awe, all in order to get people to drool over themselves in anticipation for reading my essay?

Anyway, so those are my three main ideas right now.






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