Week 10

CHOSEN POEM

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY:

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For this week I began to explore my childhood books. 
This got me thinking about how reading children’s books takes on an entirely different meaning as an adult.

I have decided I want to choose one of my favourite Roald Dahl quotes/poem that Willy Wonka delivers in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Rowing Song (scene above). I first read the book before I watched Gene Wilder (and then Johnny Depp) act this scene and I still loved it. As a child, I was probably more entranced by the rhyming of words rather than the meaning and actually found the scene quite scary. 

Now as an adult, I actually interpret the poem quite personally – where am I going? Do I have direction? There’s pressure to have to keep doing something, there’s no guaranteed end goal. To present this visually, I thought about the movement; a constant flow of work, but there’s also pressure.

How could I present this through typography? Size, shape, thick and thin lines, textures.