Designing a picture story in Photoshop allows you to set images out in a way which narrates a story, to show a set of images with the accompany of text, however, broadcasting these images to provoke the reader away from the words written. Opening the window, and selecting a ‘web’ layout, you are faced with a portrait white background in which you can place your images on top of.
You then flip this image to landscape mode by selecting the ‘rotate tool’, you then are left with a landscaped, white background. This then leads you to select the rulers on the side of the tool bar, which enables you to set up the exact adjustments you wish to make on where you want to apply your images and text. This also allows you to do it accurately as the ‘rulers’ tool promises an accurate position of where the middle is both vertically and horizontally.
The next stage is the uploading of the images I’m going to use, and deciding how much ratio of text / to image there is going to be on my picture story.
Ive managed to select the following images for my picture story:
I chose this image of the house in the 1960s because I feel its a clear reflection of history, a classic photograph. I felt as a minor image, this could clearly make the reader clarify the changes its gone through, with the help with the development and plans made by my parents. I think accompanying this image with a portrait can make this statement clear, and make the narrative flow more.Taken on an OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA, I like this image yet again as a minor image. I think it really sets up the reader into understanding the extent of change which has been happening in my new house. You also get a grasp from this the essence of culture, and how it differs from my archive images which I’ll also use in this picture story. I like the bright, unusual colours, this ensures a ere of ambiguity, and will hopefully, in effect, make the picture story more exciting and vibrant.
Over the past half term, I have been working with the Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive implementing key ideas to developing the Archive to my own personal project. These skills have made me develop various creative perspectives involving Archive extraction, research, experimentation and documentation. Exhibition and presentation design.
Some of the skills, which I have been contributing to my Archive experience, consist of:
Scanning & storing images
Image manipulation, resizing, creating composites
Producing teaching materials for Photo Archivist’s Workshop
Re-purposing images for Jersey Projection Gallery –(Ex. Skip ton Arts)
Archive Searching database
Outputting digital prints, labeling and marking images from the
Understanding copyright policy
Retrieving original images from vintage collection in strong room
Working in secure areas, safe practice in the archive environment
Appropriate handling of original archive materials
My personal project has allowed me to evolve, as with help from Gareth Syvret, I’ve been able to manipulate photographs which relate to the history and period of my new house and how I can contrast the changes and traditions in everyday life today.
These images which I came across from the previous owner of the house shows clearly the significant and original style of 1960s culture. These images show the counter development after the war, after its re-development in the late 60s and early 70s. As you can see, the development causes various similarities with that of its post-war development in the 1930s and 40s, prolonging its classic characteristics and structure. The images seem as if they’ve been documented using disposable camera’s, this is because, for example, in the image below the raw and vivid colouring is brought out from the decomposing of the walls, the grass, and the sky. This style is notorious, and easily recognisable, which connotes the time period as to when this was documenting, as this constantly relates back to the context and culture of the time this development took place.
With my new skills of Archive extraction and implementing key skills to recognise the stages in an Archival process, I came across a significant amount of historical images from the early 1900s relating to my project. As a starting point, I have researched past images of the house in order for me to make a comparative link to suggest more relevance within my ideas. This was all done with help from the Societe Jerseiase and Jersey’s Photographic Archive. With help from Gareth Syvret, we researched these past images of the house with the references tagged along with the images.
The derelict wall and the posts from the foundations.
This was all stored in a box of photographs given by the Bailiff of Jersey, between the era’s of 1930’s: a post war memorial. I then learnt that my house was an important artifact and gem to the German soldiers which were residence in St Ouen’s Bay during the time of the occupation in World War ll. From this, my ideas then began to develop, I found relevance into my project by being able to contextualize and relate to the history of my new house.
The development of the wall and roof.
The house as it was, with little garden space and aesthetic pleasure.
Here are a few example of double-page-spread picture stories which I would like to base my picture stories on. I feel like using a double-page-spread would be a good technique to use in order to convey a story, and passages of time. This is because, as you can see, the images are complimented by text and subtitles. This allows the story to flow as the major images are places usually on the right side of the page, due to the right side being the first page you seen in a newspaper, magazine or any literary text presented in a book form. This major image, as you can see, in accompanied by various minor images. This allows for stories to flow, for the major images to be understood more clearly by the minor, in awe that they help translate and narrate stories without the affect of reading any text.
On the 15th November 2015, media hit a high when terrorist attacks hit Paris, Beirut, Anarka, Latakia and over the Sinai Peninsula. Living close to France, Jersey where informed vividly of the hideous violence Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) put to the local people of Paris, who were targeted by gunmen in theatres, local restaurants, and outside Paris’s notorious Hannover Stadium, which was immediately evacuated by Paris’s police force.
French Newspaper, ‘Libération’ released a limited edition segment to announce the devastating terrorist attacks which occurred on the 15th November 2015.
Here is a link to the digital version of the articles which shows the attacks which occurred in Paris, Beirut, Anarka, Latakia and over the Sinai Peninsula:
Picture stories are techniques commonly used in newspapers and magazines. Photojournalists report media in a way of interpreting news. Picture stories however, can be seen easily as inconspicuous
The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper. Founded in 1821 as a local paper. The Guardian Newspaper and Magazine has redeveloped the photo-history of picture stories, as it has impacted readers from over 150 years.
From the archive: When Fred Perry and Virginia Wade won Wimbledon Compared to the wall-to-wall Andy Murray coverage, the Guardian was more muted when Fred Perry and Virginia Wade won Wimbledon
The Guardian is renown for its technical response to society, and ever changing life events and
“INTO OBLIVION” PUBLISHED ON THE 11.12.2010. It is a five-page spread layout and the first publication of the series, underlining the lives of elderly people. The words of this article have been written by Andrea Gillies.
This technique is very efficient, it draws readers in.
Another example is Motion Picture Magazine. This was an American monthly fan magazine about film, published from 1911 to 1977. It was the first fan magazine.
Vilma Banky Portrait from Idols of the Silent Screen — Ronald Colman & Vilma Banky Magazine Portrait from Motion Picture “Classic,” March 1927
Motion Picture Magazine 1944
The aim is to make sure the reader can interpret the image in a certain way. obstacles like captions can throw away the original perceptions you want the reader to consider.
Over the past term, I have been working with the Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive implementing key ideas to developing the Archive to my own personal project. These skills have made me develop various creative perspectives involving Archive extraction, research, experimentation and documentation. Exhibition and presentation design.
Some of the skills, which I have been contributing to my Archive experience, consist of:
Scanning & storing images
Image manipulation, resizing, creating composites
Producing teaching materials for Photo Archivist’s Workshop
Re-purposing images for Jersey Projection Gallery – Skipton Arts Series 10-14 November
Searching database
Outputting digital prints, labeling and marking images from the archive
Understanding copyright policy
Retrieving original images from vintage collection in strong room
Working in secure areas, safe practice in the archive environment
Appropriate handling of original archive materials
My personal project has allowed me to evolve, as with help from Gareth Syvret, I’ve been able to manipulate photographs which relate to the history and period of my new house and how I can contrast the changes and traditions in everyday life today.
