Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words

Surveillance, Watched, Paranoia

• A sentence

The developments of surveillance are slowly causing a common paranoia amongst those within society.

• A paragraphs

For this ‘political landscape’ project I am focusing on the theme of surveillance, and how surveillance actually effects the general public, in both positive or negative ways. Particularly how mass surveillance and the ‘big brother theory’ causes a common paranoia and feeling of insecurity within the general public, and how the awareness of this can cause an impact on the public’s trust of authority. The rapid developments in surveillance is also something which is evidently adding to this and will also therefore be explored in my work.

Design: Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel

I would like my book to look and feel of a high and lasting quality, using a hardback cover and premium matte photo paper inside.

• Paper and ink
  

I would like matte white paper as I believe that when looking at a range of other photo books this kind of paper has a high quality feel and look. Also this kind of paper works with a range of different images (colour and black & white) and as i intend to use a range of photos with very different aesthetic qualities, I believe that this will work best.

• Format, size and orientation.

7×7 inch Square

• Binding and cover
  

I would like my book to have a standard case binding, and I would like it to have a hardback cover.

• Title 

”Watch Out”

• Design and layout

Some images will be best as full page spreads (single or double), some images will look best with boarders and some will look best grouped together, and therefore I am not going to limit myself by completely sticking to one uniformed layout and will instead lay out my photographs in the way which I believe individually best suits them.

• Editing and sequencing

The sequencing of images in the book I intend to follow a narrative of how surveillance is evolving/developing. So as the book continues the images represent closer and more personal forms of  surveillance, such as surveillance through our own devices. Whereas in the beginning it will look at visual forms of surveillance (birds) and then early forms of technological surveillance (CCTV etc.)