Narrative: What is your story?

In 3 words I would describe my book’s narrative as – Microscopic, Anthropocene, Decomposition

In a sentence: My book intends to show the effects we have on the environment when we choose to throw away items instead of recycle them.

A paragraph: Instead, of capturing the environment itself, I choose to capture the objects found inside it which show the decomposition of their materials by the landscape. The breaking down of these objects is carried out by organisms at the bottom of the food chain, therefore impacting humans at the top as a result.

Design: 

How you want your book to look and feel: I want the book to feel like plastic by incorporating plastic onto the cover.

Paper and ink: I want the paper to be matte as it is more resistant to light. It feels more muted reflecting our silence in taking action against the destruction of the environment and the organisms inside it.

Format, size and orientation: 20×25 cm standard portrait

Binding and cover: I want a dust jacket cover so that I can incorporate 3D objects onto the cover such as items I’ve found whilst creating the project.

Title: The title will be based around the theme of plastic.

Structure and architecture: I will show the objects as the main focus first, and at the end of the book I will show images of the “behind the scenes” showing the collection of objects. I may instead decide to place these images in between every set of images depicting the objects.

Design and layout: My images mainly have dark backgrounds. I may associate images with the shape of a circle, as it is a common theme due to the they way I photographed objects through the microscope.

Editing and sequencing: I want to place images of objects close-up next to images of the same object from afar.

Images and text: I may place text alongside the image to tell the viewer what the object in the photo is.