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1. Sammie, you must produce some blog post which charts your recent development of your personal study e.g.

   1. Research photo books for design ideas and produce a mood board. Select at least one photo-book that you have used as inspiration in your personal study and describe how it communicates a narrative, concept, subject-matter using a combination of images, text, archival material. Some of you may already have done this in your research.

   2. Deconstruct the layout of the book e.g. think about format (portraiture/ landscape/ square), size (A5, A4, A3), sequencing (single page, double-spread, multiple images on a page), juxtaposition of photographs on opposing pages etc. How is the narration of the images used, i.e. formal or conceptual relationship between images. Any use of archival or found material? How does it add value to the story being told? Describe also, how the book title, text (foreword, essay, statement by artists) and captions (if any) are use.

   3. Upload final essay with illustrations

   4. Produce screen prints of layout ideas as you progress and add to Blog for further annotation. Photo-book; show screen prints of page layout and narrative/ sequencing/ juxtaposition of pictures. Podcast; produce screen prints as work progress that show your editing skills/ decisions.

   5. Select a set of 5-6 photographs as final outcomes and evaluate – explaining in some detail how well you realised your intentions and reflect on what you learned in your Personal Study.

   6. Save final outcomes in a shared folder, in a high-resolution (at least 3000 pixels on the long edge) and each images saved in your name i.e. first name_surname_title_1, and 2, 3 and so on.

   7. Final layout of photobook with essay and a final evaluation

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