Jon Klassen - ‘I want my hat back’
The idea of just doing conversation in dialogue with the pictures next to them suggested that one of them might be lying. After that the story came very quickly and organically.
The illustrations were kept very simple. The book was written in very stiff language. It was stiff because he (Jon Klassen) was nervous about writing a book, and he liked the idea not these characters were not very good at speaking their lines, so they came out stiff and they kept looking at the camera/audience instead of at each other like they should be when two characters are speaking to each other. They seemed baffled to ve in a book, as I was baffled to be making one. Choosing a simple problem- in this case a bear who want to be wearing his hat again-then deciding how it will be told- in this case with dialogue between characters -and let that second decision suggest the story itself.
“I like a story that allows the viewer to wander around a little bit and find it on thier own.”
“… I thought of doing the whold thing only in dialogue instead, without narration, and using colour to show who was talking so I wouldn’t even have to name anybody. “
