EXP: YCN - picking a brief

In my statement of intent at the beginning of the year, I'd listed YCN down as one of the brief's I wanted to do. This is because I preferred their brief's over D&AD, I'm far more interested at this point in delving into something character design/ publishing based rather than packaging (and D&AD had alot of that going on this year).
In my SOI I originally stated I wanted to do the Royal Opera House AND Roald Dahl, however with 6 weeks to the deadline date and a little research into what both they both want, I'm dropping ROH in favour of Roald Dahl. This is down to the fact I've got a few other brief's going at the same time and I don't want to burn out or make weaker work.

Roald Dahl brief is a really broad one actually, maybe a little too broad even? For me, this brief is going to be about focusing some more on my character design and thinking about composition. I want to illustrate at least 2 scenes for this project, 3 would be the optimum but it depends on where I see my illustrations being placed and which stories I choose (for example there could be more than one character in the Matilda one?? So would it count as at least three iconic characters?? probably.. like I said.. this brief is very broad).