CONCEPT : Blog entry 35
I've been thinking about my original idea, the one that I've had right from the start; the RSPB bird guide. The red list is something that I am really interested in an passionate about; we need to be doing more to try and stop our english birds becoming endangered, and dying out completely.
My original idea was to produce a nice book, highlighting these issues, with a more up to date aesthetic that would appeal to a wider audience.
I stopped with this idea because I thought that it would be too similar to Matt Sewell's work. This might be true in some ways, but Sewell's books do not address the issue of the Red List.
Although, does this fall into the category of a guide? Am I too close to what I was doing before?
What they're going to want to know is, how will what I create add to the field? Well, as far as I know, there an identification guide, or other book that focuses solely on the birds of the Red list; other guides may touch on it, highlighting which species are on the list, but there isn't a book of just the red listed birds. The RSPB makes a pdf document of the list every year, but doesn't offer up much information.
I think I've sold it to myself. It's the most promising idea that I have so far. It may be a little like a guide, or that would be one of it's purposes, but its main purpose would be to gain more interest, raise awareness etc. etc.
It's do-able too, theres around 40 birds on the red list...the out come would most likely be book, I can utilise the style that I developed over this semester.
This is something that I am passionate about, I already know a fair bit on the topic, as it's something that I have been wanting to work around for the past...3 years!
Yes! Now all I have to do is come up with a decent 'working title'...
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