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Figure 4.3: The Design of the Exercise pages
3 Designing the story illustrations
The illustrations of the story should be appropriate with the students‟ characteristics. To meet their characteristics, the story characters were drawn
cutely. Besides, the colourful illustrations of the places in which the action of the story happened were also made. There were 12 pages of the story illustrations. In
making the illustrations, Corel Draw X5 was used. b.
The Little Indian Boy Picture Series 1
Designing the puppet The puppet was the Little Indian Boy. It was designed to have three different
faces, those were sleeping, smiley, and scared face. Those three expressions were adjusted to the story line. In addition, there were a stick stuck on the back of the
puppet‟s head, and a string stuck on the puppet‟s arms and tied to the top of the stick. The stick was a handle which ease the story teller playing the puppet. Then,
the string could be pulled up to make the puppet‟s arms swing. Here is the design of the puppet.
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Figure 4.4: The Puppet’s Front View
Figure 4.5: The Puppet’s Back view
2 Designing the illustrations of the story
Since the story was about a little Indian boy‟s adventure, it had its setting in an Indian environment. There were a bed room, a dining room, a house, a garden,
a road, a wood, a grass yard, a puddle, a river, a hill, and a cave. Those places were dominated by sand colour in order to make the illustration attractive and
represent an Indian environment. It helped the students to have an image of an Indian environment.
3 Designing the media assembly
The media contained 11 pages of the illustrations of where the story took place. The illustrations helped the students to understand the story. The page
consisted of two parts. They were the main part or the full illustration page, and the scrap frame. The main part was the story background. Meanwhile, the scrap
frame was a small frame which used to place the puppet during the story was being told. The design can be seen in the following figure below.
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Figure 4.6: The Design of the Media Assembly 4.
The Media Production
After finishing the design of the picture series, the researcher did some actions to produce the media. The detail process is explained below.
a. The Gingerbread Man Picture Series
1 The cover
The cover was an important part of the picture series. It should give a good impression when readers see it. Thus, flannel was chosen. A house pattern was
made on two pieces of flannel and cardboards. Those were cut. Then, the cardboard was put between the cut flannel, and the flannel was sewed. The title of
the story, the Gingerbread Man doll, and some accessories were glued on the cover. Here is the picture of the cover:
Figure 4.7: The Picture of the Cover
Scrap frame Background