A Gleneagle Digital Portfolio

Literature Circles Theme Park Project

Welcome to the Otter Lake Theme Park! Let me show you around.

Here is a comprehensive brochure that tells you about the many attractions at our park.

To help you find these great activities and get around, we have a map made for you as well:

As for my contributions…

My roles in completing the theme park project were brochure-making and merchandise-making. I believe I went above and beyond by also designing a logo to accompany the brochure and putting in additional work to polish up my teammate’s products. I also helped keep my group on track by making sure they hand in their individual components by different in-group deadlines (this also helped give me time to put together the brochure). I first started by designing the logo while brainstorming ideas for merchandise. I started a very rough draft of the brochure with approximate locations of different components so I could add them in as they came in. I began to design product packaging for my main products. I then received the majority of the components of the project and added in the visual aspects. Some required trimming or editing to make the backgrounds transparent for the sake of space or looks, so I painstakingly removed the backgrounds of these images. I then added the text for most of the categories. I drew a “most popular” merchandise shelf with 6 different products, including the 3 required for the project’s criteria. I wrote about how these items relate to the story and attached prices to the products. I also contributed actively to group discussions and suggested jokes and structures for the script of the presentation. I then edited the final brochure together including formatting, doing some light editing along the way.

This project helped me understand more of the story, specifically getting to know the role the characters played in relation to the plot and the theme. Our main character, Virgil, while important, could have easily done nothing and John would have still been exposed. He also does not seem to be a very memorable character, as most of the great and creative ideas for attractions at our theme park stemmed from more exciting and important places. Perhaps this is intentional though – as Virgil is a young boy struggling with his identity and sense of purpose, a bold John with similar aspirations but a more confident demeanour takes both the character’s and audience’s breaths away. When one takes a more “theme park” view of the story, they tend to forget the more serious characters and go for the flashier and sillier ones. This closely mirrors the themes of the story, however, as Lillian wanted Maggie to have a little bit of magic in her life, experiencing something other than loss and paperwork. Even if it ended up causing them lots of trouble, Maggie and Virgil did go on that crazy adventure – and Virgil got the most incredible essay out of it too.

• April 6, 2022


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