This is my first time to create a storyboard. I met the trouble when I started to think about the main idea of my storyboard. My imagination always too weak to come up the ideas. It took me a long time to think that how to connect evey clues to show my main idea. Finally I decided to introduce the little girl called Zaxi who I met in supporting teaching trip in Tibet. She was one of my students and I lived in her home during my supportng trip. After I finished the storyboard, I found that my work could not emphasize Zaxi's personality completely. I thought I need to add some further details to illustrate what I was realizing after the trip and explain it.
What I was thinking next was to try my best to draw a portrait of Zaxi. She was the main character through my whole story. I didn't have her photo, so I downloaded the portrait of the Tibet girl who looks similar to Zaxi from a website and photographed it. My painting was little bit weak and I used the easiest way to draw the portrait by coculating the ratio and magnifying it on the paper carefully. I believe it is my most perfect work ever. The difficult part for my painting was drawing the eyes and shadow. Before this time, I had never touched the skills of painting. So this portrait took me a whole day in total. Then I finished it and search some components to my final result, because the portrait just one of the elements of my final resault. But, to combine the traditional material and the technological material is one the confusing part during the whole process. My teacher helped me photograph the painting, but it seemed not very clear. So I decided to take photo with it and upload to my computer. In fact, it was better.
When I looked at the portrait, it reminds me the days from that summer. I was shocked that this little girl was very tactful that many children in the same age who born in modern city cannot help their parents do some easy housework, even need their parents to do some easy work instead. I believed the reason for this phenomon is that people who are born to some areas of poverty start their lives more difficults because they don't have enough money to buy food and clothes to meet their basic needs. So these people will more cherish what they have more and be more sensible at a very young age. In the other side, the children who born in the modern city seems like that they can own most things what they want. It is not beneficial for their growth. Some of them cannot realize how much happiness they are enjoying and become very selfish and pessimistic. Their parents, also spoil children as better as possible. They don't need their children to experience the troubles in lives, on the contrary, they just want their children achieve the accomplishment as soon as possible.So, in my opinion, many people who live in the modern city prefer to paying more attention to the superfacial thing. People who grow in a family living in poverty may be more easier to achieve the higher realm of thoughts however.
