Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words – Divorce, Separation, childhood
• A sentence – Witnessing my parents lives after their divorce and comparing it to when I was a child.
• A paragraph – This book is about my parents and their lives after their divorce. My mum has re-married and lives in the UK now, whereas my dad still lives in Jersey with me. For me, I found the divorce and my mum moving away very hard, so I decided for this project to capture my parents lives and tell and honest truth about what a separated family is like. I also want to include own images of my childhood to show the juxtaposing lives of both my parents and the past and present.

Design: Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel – I want my book to feel like a photo album. I want it to be plain black and simple.
• Paper and ink – Id like the paper to be matte so the glossy images i take out of the photo albums will contrast it.
• Format, size and orientation – Just a standard portrait sized book.
• Binding and cover – hard cover, plain black.
• Title – 7916 – parents marriage and divorce dates
• Structure and architecture – just like a normal photobook but I want to insert images out of family photo albums as I feel like this will give the book an interesting tactile feel.
• Design and layout – images of my mum will be on the left and the right way up, but then images of my dad will be upside down. This is a way to show their split and also made the reader engage with the book as to view the images of my dad they’ll have to turn the book upside down.
• Editing and sequencing – I’m going to put any images I take into black and white but leave the archive images untouched.
• Images and text – I want the images to be candid and of my parents daily lives, almost as a documentary. I feel that if my images are staged it would take the meaning away. no text.

These are my second set of finished images for my photo-book. They follow the same process of capturing and editing as my first set of photos, this can be read on my blog post of the same title. The only difference from this time is that I have chosen to use red as an accent colour in my editing as it contrasts against the black and white and when the book is actually created I plan on including it in other areas also, such as book title or page cover etc, therefore in the end it will match as a complementary colour. I have also taken an image from my last set and re-edited again as I wasn’t sure if it fitted or not. Again I am very satisfied with these images and will be using them all.

Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words – Occupation, Remembrance, Change
• A sentence – I am going to explore bunkers created during the occupation and try and show how they have changed since the occupation.
• A paragraphs – With this project, I am going to explore the bunkers around Jersey. With the images I collect from doing this, I am going to show how they have changed since World War 2 and the German occupation of Jersey. Through this I am going to try and show the memory of those involved within the war, whether it be through forced labour during the creation of the bunkers, or soldiers used within the war.

Design: Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel – I want the book to seem fairly obvious as to what it is.
• Paper and ink – Standard ink, will likely use paper that will not reflect a lot of light back.
• Format, size and orientation – It will likely be in a landscape format and I may have it quite small
• Binding and cover – Hardback book, one of the images I take I will probably use as a double page spread over the front and back cover.
• Title – “no personal memories” – may change later in the project
• Structure and architecture – Will likely structure the photobook very simply. Using similar images together and sequencing the book in a layout that works best.
• Design and layout – Going to design it in a uniformed fashion, so that it has similar images together or format them in a sequence. I will likely lay it out so images of different bunkers are separated.
• Editing and sequencing – will experiment with both black and white and colour, if I decide to use black and white, I will likely try adding high contrast to the images.
• Images and text – Images will be taken of bunkers and show erosion and what has happened to them since The Occupation. I may add text to the photobook, perhaps something to do with the equipment at some bunkers around the island.

I want my book to have a more grunge aesthetic, but not to the point of being messy. I am thinking of using matte rather than glossy pages to help achieve this feel, using paper with a matte finish will also work well with the images within the book; as they are all very textured with added visual noise.

I am currently thinking of using a 10×8 in (25x20cm) size book, which is a standard landscape size. although I will include vertically orientated images in the book as well. I will most likely crop some images to make them square. I am also thinking of using an image wrap hardcover for the book.

As the book is about how fashion changes how a person can be viewed or treated, I am thinking of titling the book ‘prejudice’. However I am also considering other options, one of which is a less serious title: “Inside I’m crying, but outside I’m playing the Kazoo”.

The structure of the book will be a story told in pictures, but in reverse. A story which when simplified is about a man who gets attacked on the street, but he ends up being persecuted and punished due to wearing the more ‘thug’ looking clothes. It is not intended to be a realistic story, but more to send a message. So the book will start with him being persecuted, and end with him moments before being attacked.

The layout of the book will consist of two configurations; either each double-page spread will contain two full size images, or an image on one page and text on the other.

I will end the book with a conclusion of the story at the end, along with my essay.