Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

3 words:

My mental illness.

A sentence:

A representation of what it felt like to experience depression and anxiety.

A paragraphs:

A primarily surrealistic representation of my feelings during, what I’ve since dubbed as, the worst year of my life. Drawing inspiration from the works of Francesca Woodman and Mark Ellen Mark’s Ward 81, this book looks at both the emotional and physical aspects of depression and anxiety.

Design: Consider the following:

How you want your book to look and feel:

The book will focus on a darker theme to fit with its images. Grey will be

Paper and ink:

Premium matte paper.

Format, size and orientation:

A4, Portrait.

Binding and cover:

Hard Back binding. Image wrap on cover.

Title:

My book will remain untitled. This is a choice I made to symbolise the subjectivity of mental illness as it can vary for different people and I didn’t want people who couldn’t relate to the title to disregard the rest of the book.

Design and layout:

It is important to me that my book is somewhat visually pleasing. There’s an element of peace and acceptance to my images that my book needs to be consistent with. To do this I will use black and white to follow the themes of my images. These colours when used together can symbolise the sadness present while also removing colour that can often be associated with joy.

Editing and sequencing:

As previously mentioned, My book needs to be somewhat visually pleasing. Another way to achieve this is with the sequencing of my images. The book will follow a pattern; An environmental portrait -> A collection of images with the same theme -> A head shot style image. This will be repeated throughout the book.

Images and text:

There will be no text to accompany the images. I had thought about adding text to further create a personal feel to the images. However, I hadn’t written down my feelings at the time and I didn’t want to add in words that may be tainted by hindsight.