Brief

I wanted my project to be educational, but also experimental.
It's very clear that historical aspect of my project have educational function. It's to show people some local places and tell history of those places as well. To help viewers/readers to view those derelict and demolished sites as something what was completely different years ago, i.e. full of life, laugh or tears.

Let's say Hetty Pit, Hopkinstown - people walking down this road very often, old mine it's empty, scary and bit forgotten. People don't think that often about what's happened there ages ago, just walking past on way to work/school. I've visited Hetty, I've seen old engine working, researched it's history, found some old images and felt real atmosphere of this amazing place. It's amazing experience! And I wanted to give little bit of this experience to others, who can learn about Hetty's past through interaction with my book. They could see old photographs and new photographs to compare how it used to looks like in the past. They could read little stories about it, and more! It's important to remember local history and to pass it on to younger generation, as there is not many miners left who still remember what's happened there!

I have no idea about early education systems  here in UK, can't get what's Key stages are and what's included in which Key stage, but I am sure that books like that would be interesting for probably all ages, as there are various elements and even if young children won't understand text they would have fun exploring movable parts of the book and will understand what those parts are for or what they represent.  I.e. they will see some landscape full of stones (present) and image on the top (past) with man digging out those stones - it would be easy to understand that they used to work there to dig out the limestone... 

Experimental part of this project is by learning/exploring different methods of printing (on paper, 3d, lenticular, on tracing paper, on transparent foil), paper engineering (pop outs, cut outs, movement) and some other aspects of design and model making. I never tried so many different thing in such small amount of time and it's shame that I hadn't more time to improve my project.

I am not good in writing, and it's hard to explain what I mean... but I hope aims of creating my book are quite clear.