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Week 3 Project Proposal

As the same explanation, this is the proposal of the other project. In here I am more focusing on creating illustration base project using real data and information about endangered species in Indonesia.

Here is the proposal

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Encyclopedia of Endangered Species in Indonesia

By Putu Deny Pratama Saputra

Background

Indonesia is one of the richest country with lots of islands that has lots of different species living on it. As one of the country that has lots of island, each island has different ecosystem and different species living in the ecosystem. The east and the west has different topology that makes each of them has unique animals living on different situation. The east of Indonesia has lots of rain forest with more vegetation than the West and the Middle. With this separation, the animals living will have their unique adaptation towards different ecosystems. However, with the deforestation and global warming, there is a change of of vegetation and it affecting several animals. Many animals need several years before it can adapt to the newer situation and with the process of adaptation, they might die for many reasons. Lots of animals has become endangered because of this situation and many become critically endangered. Humans start deforesting the forest in order to gain more space for their civilization. Whereas animals and plants need to go because they cannot fight back. Some animals need a specific breeding ground in order to breed and survive. With the destruction of their breeding ground, they will fail to breed and it makes their population decreasing with the result of they become endangered.

Therefore, I would like to create and encyclopedia that focus on the endangered species in Indonesia. It will cover all the information about the species including name, scientific names, current populations, habitats, feature, breeding process, and other information. the encyclopedia is also supported with the illustrations. I am trying to create more interactive publications where they can have mini games in each species to mix and match the scattered information into right order. Because this is more into educational purposes, I am trying to explain everything into solid information and easy to understand for any ages.

Objective

The objective of this project is to raise people awareness about the endangered species in Indonesia. We would like to introduce to the audience to the species that live in Indonesia in more interesting way. As a child growing up reading many science books, we found that any book most likely to be… a book. A compilation of words and less illustration, easy to be forgotten, and not so engaging. Therefore, we would like to create an encyclopedia that illustrate the situation into more interesting purpose. Engaging the audience with mini games and interactive readings. It will be remembered by the audience because many people are easier to remember picture. This project also will educate the audience with more knowledge of the endangered species. There is less record of many endangered species in Indonesia, soon it will be vanishing. We would like to preserve the information into an electronic encyclopedia.

Recommendation

With many encyclopedias already published, our encyclopedia might not be the new one. However, a knowledge is not always new, but how we delivered it to the audience make it different. There are, few to none electronic encyclopedia that feature interactivity. There was an application back when we were junior school, 6-9 years ago that so engaging because it has lots of interactivity and interesting educational material. It was called Brittanica Encyclopedia. It was on windows and the form was in application format where you have to install it in order to use it. It was very very interesting application because I learn a lot of knowledge. However, due to the size and the information that is not so complete, we found that it is also not so educational because it covers the general knowledge only. Hence, we would like to improve the quality by reducing the size and make it into electronic publishing instead of application so any user will able to read the encyclopedia, not restricted to windows user only.

2.1 Project Schedule

2.1.1 Weekly Schedules

Week	Activity	Target	Locations
1	Brainstorming the ideas	-Having the fixed concept and theme for the project	Anywhere
2	Proposal and rough concept the idea	-Get the approval for the proposal -Start lay outing the encyclopedia	Studios
3	Finish the layout and start rough sketch for the illustrations	-Decided on how many animals will we cover and how many illustrations needed. -Start digging up the general information first.	Studios
4	Start rough illustrating the projects and create simple mock up	-Going to the Taxidermy museums. -Do the research using older encyclopedia in the library and national library. -Get more information from online sources, including nat geo and nat geo ID website. -Layout the informations -Create simple mock up for the mid exam.	-Studios -Taxidermy Museum in Bogor -National Library -Library -Bookstore -Ragunan Zoo -Safari Park
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7	Finalizing the mock up and start cleaning the process	-Finalize the mock up -Cleaning the sketches -preparing the presentation for mid exam	studios
8	Assessment
9	Finalize the illustrations and finished lay outing the information	-finished all the illustrations -Start animating them -Finished typing the informations	Studios
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12	Putting everything together in one piece	Start putting everything on the layout and reviewing everything on the final design before seeing the instructor	Studio
13	Reviewing the projects to the instructor	we will have another personal review with the instructor and asking for feedback so we can improve the quality of the project before the final exam	Studio
14	Revising	We will revise the projects according to the feedback given by the lecturer on this week and the next following week	Studio
15	Revising		Studio
16	Final Exam	Final Exam	Studio