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Ellije

It's like Elijah, but not

1st Letter Of My Name : 2nd Letter Of My Name : 1st Letter Of My Moms Name : 2nd Letter Of My Moms Name : 1st Letter Of My Dads Name : 2nd Letter Of My Dads Name : My Child’s Name Would Be ?

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PERSONA

Personas are utilised to create trustworthy and realistic representations of your project's core audience.

Sites demonstrated by Ellij Nicholas used to create your user persona are:

https://xtensio.com/ -

https://uxpressia.com/personas-online-tool-

https://www.hubspot.com/make-my-persona

Class assignment was to use one of these websites and create your ideal personas.

I utilised the xtensio website since it is quick and easy to create my persona, and you can upload your image instead of creating an avatar. However, I detest the fact that I had to screenshot the image rather than saving it to my desktop.

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Research Application

Research Question: To what degree does the population of Trinidad believe in local folktales?

Certain things to note:

my population sample is limited to Trinidad for geographic reasons (inter-island transport is inconsistent and unreliable) and

I chose the topic of folktales and not folklore, as folklore constitutes of folktales, superstitions, dances, songs, remedies, etc.)

To conduct research on this topic over 20 secondary sources of information was used including published books on Folklore as well as internet resources. For primary sources of information surveys were distributed online as well as semi-structures interviews were conducted.

The quantitative research method, surveys, was chosen as a primary research method since it was objective, cost effective and easily administered to large number of participants. The survey was distributed online via Survey Monkey.  The link to the survey was given to friends, family and colleagues. Ellij Nicholas, the supervisor, also indicated that he would share the link to some high school teachers and students that he knew, so that the sample would include people between 13-18 year olds. 

The survey questions were structured accordingly:

Participant demographics

Familiarity with Folk

 Whether or not participants have had 1st hand encounters with folktale charachers or if they know someone who has had. (This is to help ascertain the level of belief of the participant).

Whether or not the participant does anything to ward off folktale characters (This is to help ascertain the level of belief of the participant). As even if they claim not to have believed in folklore, sometimes people would do things like pray for protection. So whilst they say they don’t believe in folktale characters, on some level to do five it credence.

Semi-structured interviews, a qualitative research method, were conducted to help offer more insight into the topic as surveys would show what people believe, but interviews could help explain why they do or do not believe in folklore. The interview candidates were not randomly chosen. Chinelle had reached out to her contacts and was able to secure participants from Mayaro. The participants from Chaguaramas were volunteers that we solicited at the filming location and the interviews in Lopinot we organised by reaching out through official and unofficial means. Initially we wished to visit Moruga and conduct interviews there as the village was mentioned multiple times in various secondary sources as a place with rich folklore, but after contacting the person in charge of the Museum in Moruga who directed us to someone in Lopinot, who then directed us to someone else, that happened to be a family member or one of the crew’s co-worker, who then recommended Mr. Martin Gomez). Mr. Gomez himself then gave us a brief tour of the area and led us to another person we were able to interview.

Importance

As communication technology and media have brought the country closer to the rest of the world, we must figure out what our cultural identity is and how to maintain it. Research into the continued belief of folklore is important as it provides insight into the current state of local culture. It will also help to determine if there is a decline of oral traditions being passed down and what this could mean for the continued existence of the local culture.  

Research for Book Content

Chinelle and I compiled data on each folktale and carnival character entry and then combined it with primary sources of information (i.e. semi-structured interviews) to create the initial descriptions to give the illustrator.

In addition to Kumar Mahabir and Gerard Besson’s books, we also came across Myths and Maxims by Josanne Leid and Unnatural Encounters by Amber Drapier. Using these books as well as others and various online sources we decided on what content to include in our book and how we would go about it.

As our research into prior media continued we realised that we wanted to include a section on local superstitions. To gather this information we reached out to friends and family members and collected some of their beliefs via whatsapp, email, telephone and in person.

The next section that we ended up including in the book was the Tales of Lopinot. Our visit there led us to a lot of content that we had not uncovered in other books before. While there we were provided with a rich history and were charmed by the community. Thus we dedicated an entire section on the area and structured it around the heritage site and the interview content from Mr. Martin Gomez.

We had always wanted to include a section on Bush medication and gathered the information from the interviews we conducted.

After finding scarce information on local Carnival Characters in the various local bookstores, we concluded that to make our book more unique we would include a section on them. This was justified as Carnival Characters can be considered local folklore even though it is tied to a festival. The Carnival Character section was created using mostly secondary sources as we were unable to find many people who could describe them to us and we were unable to secure an interview an expert like Peter Minshall.

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April 18th

To the three of us went to Ellij web design class to start going over how we would want the website to look style wise as well as technically learn how to build the site using the platform Wix.

This class showed that our group had a lot of work cut out for us since we all couldn’t cohesively come to an agreement on how the website should lookdue to our very different views and tastes on how the layout, colours, and styles should be.

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Choosing an Illustrator

Sarah and I have been working with one of our mentors Ellij Nicholas. We expressed our concerns like reliability and finances to him while trying to secure an illustrator. He passed onto us the contact information of Sarekha Arjoonsingh. She is an SBCS graphic design student. We contacted Sarekha and explained to her what we would require of her and the budget to which we are working with. She accepted the task and our offer. Most importantly by us finalising her as our chosen illustrator, it is in keeping with the parameters of our assignment guidelines which is any work outsources should be that of a past or present SBCS student. 

Over the last few weeks, I have been doing secondary research on folktale characters from four different folklore books currently in existence. I analyzed the similar characteristics of these characters , made a detailed list of my own descriptions and forwarded Sarekha this list for her to prepare a couple draft illustrations so Sarah and I would be able to decide if her work is something we can use given the specific feel for the encyclopedia we have in mind. 

An example of one of her illustrations can be seen below.

This type of of hand drawn, dark illustration enhanced digitally is exactly what we were hoping for so this is a positive step forward in this project. 

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