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Book Specification
1. Write a book specification and describe in detail what your book will be about in terms of narrative, concept and design. Produce a mood-board of design ideas and consider the following:
Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:
- 3 words
Re-visiting changed environment
- A sentence
Looking at archival imagery, I re-visited La Motte to document the effect of time on the environment.
- A paragraphs
90 years after the archaeological excavations at La Motte of 18 cists dated from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, I re-visited this area comparing the archival imagery with what is there today. I focused on documenting the environment e.g rocks, plants and landscape, as well as gathering objects i found there and photographing them formally. The underlying theme to my photobook is the effect of mankind on the environment over a period of time, taking inspriation from ‘Field Studies’ by Crystel Lebas.
Design: Consider the following
- How you want your book to look and feel
- Paper and ink
- Format, size and orientation
- Binding and cover
- Title options:
La Motte: Walking through Landscapes and Archives
La Motte: The Changing Environment
The Changing Island
The Island: Walking through Landscapes and Archives
- Structure and architecture
- Design and layout
- Editing and sequencing
- Images and text
I want my photo book to have a scientific appearance to it, linking to the formal imagery at the end of the book of objects I gathered taking inspiration from early botanists . I also want to try and emphasise the comparisons between the archival imagery and my photography by having my images in colour which contrasts with the black and white archival images. Similar to Crystel Lebas I want my photobook to have writing in it giving information and history about the area. Some of the landscape imagery will be across two pages, similar to Lebas panoramic photography. The photo book will be portrait and smaller than A4. Inside the photobook I will stick in additional images after it has been printed to emphasise the appearance of a scientific notebook, giving a more authentic, handmade look. The first half of my book will focus on my landscape photography documenting the area. On some of these pages I will juxtapose them with archival imagery from 1911-1914 to show the history of the area and to show how the environment has changed over 90 years due to climate change. Towards the end of the photobook I will display the edits of the objects alongside the original image formally. This is a contrast to the first part of the book, the last part focusing on a more scientific exploration. In ‘Field Studies’ Le bas calls the second half of her photobook ‘Weeds & Aliens Studies’ taking inpiration from Salsibury’s book. I also want to include some of the natural objects and archival imagery at the start of my book as the reader opens it so they have an idea of what the photobook is about and can understand the underlying story more.
One quote i want to use in my photobook is ‘We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.’ Edward James Salisbury (1935). This is because I think it links to my imagery of objects i gathered in the area (specifically the plants) as they have been taken out of their natural environment.
My Book Specification
Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:
3 words – Humanities environmental presence
A sentence – Showing the Utopian view i have of the world and displaying how this is conflicted by the way in which humans are treating the land.
A paragraph – I want my book to have a hard back cover that will feel professional and secure, keeping my book well kept together. I will include a standardized A4 landscape formatted pages throughout to ensure the pictures are a big enough size to bring out details. I will use a variety of design layouts throughout the photo-book such as full-bleeds and centered photographs that create a white boarder. Varying the styles will help to engage with the audience and keep them interested in the important messages that i am conveying about the environment. My photo-book will consist of mainly images rather than adding text as I believe the text will not add value in connecting with the audience. My narrative will consist of two clear opposing views on the world from an Utopian and Dystopian perspective. The Utopian ideas will be portrayed by beautiful landscape images of the sublime environment that surrounds us here in Jersey. I will then incorporate some manipulated images that really exaggerated how beautiful the natural land is to clearly show these Utopian values. The above will take up the first half of my book followed by the dystopian ideas which will give the viewer a sense of how we are manipulating the environment and creating problems. This will include raw and manipulated images mostly including buildings to show a sense of urbanization that is the main factor contributing the the wreck of the natural land and other environmental issues.
DESIGN YOUR PHOTO BOOK
Week 18 – 19 – 20: Design your Photobook & Complete Essay
Make sure you monitor and track your progress here Personal-Study-Planner-Tracker-2018-19
WE GOT THREE WEEKS LEFT IN CLASS TO COMPLETE PERSONAL STUDY and ONE MOCK EXAM DAY
In the next three week focus on beginning to edit and collect all your images, archival material and texts, including your essay needed to complete your photobook.
You want to aim for a draft layout and hand in draft version of your essay before your Mock Exam day, then use that day to fine tune design and complete essay.
DEADLINE: MOCK EXAM!
Mon 11 Feb Class 13A & 13D
Tue 12 Feb Class 13C
Wed 13 Feb: Hand-out Exam paper
1. Write a book specification and describe in detail what your book will be about in terms of narrative, concept and design. Produce a mood-board of design ideas and consider the following:
Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:
- 3 words
- A sentence
- A paragraphs
Design: Consider the following
- How you want your book to look and feel
- Paper and ink
- Format, size and orientation
- Binding and cover
- Title
- Structure and architecture
- Design and layout
- Editing and sequencing
- Images and text
2. Create a BLURB account using your school email address. With Blurb you have different options on how you design your book:
a) Using Lightroom to design your book which is integrated with BLURB. Only for use on school computers, unless you have LR at home on your own laptop.
b) Download Bookwright via Blurb onto your own laptop and work offline at home and you can work indecently of school. Here you have full control of layout/ design features. Once completed, you upload photo book design to Blurb
c) Choose online option if you want to work directly online. Very limited layout/design options (not recommended!)
For those who wish to make their own hand-made photobook using Indesign follow the same steps as below in terms of documenting and annotating your design process. or if you want to customize your Blurb book see me for more details on how to do it.
3. Using Lightroom make a rough selection of your 40-50 best pictures from all shoots. Make sure you have adjusted and standardised all the pictures in terms of exposure, colour balance/ B&W, contrast/brightness etc.
4. Print them out as smaller images (4 to one A4 page) on the Laserjet, cut them up in guillotine and lay them out on the big white table for editing.
5. Decide on format (landscape, portrait) size and style of your photo-book. Begin to design your photo book, considering carefully, narrative, editing, sequencing, page spreads, juxtaposition, image size, text pages, empty pages, use of archival material etc.
6. At the end of your photo book, add your illustrated essay including title, any captions (if needed), bibliography, illustrations of artists work (incl data) and images of your own responses. Think carefully about font type, size and weighting.
7. Produce screen prints of layout ideas as you progress and add to Blog for further annotation, commenting on page layout/ narrative/ sequencing/ juxtaposition of pictures.
Film/ Podcast; produce screen prints as work progress that show your editing skills/ decisions.
8. 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 Political Landscape project.
9. Save final outcomes in our shared PRINT folder (no later than 15:00 end of your Mock exam day) in a high-resolution (4000 pixels on the long edge.) Save each images in your name i.e. first name_surname_title_1, and 2, 3 and so on.
10. Make sure all blog posts are finished including, research, analysis, experimentation, annotation and an evaluation of final outcomes.