Narrative: What is your story?

Describe in:

• 3 words: Folklore, Reality, Fiction
• A sentence: Exploring the occupation of folklore tales of a small collective place
• A paragraph: My phonebook will look to explore the occupation of local myths and folklore tales in Jersey, Channel Islands, ones that play and important part in the islands history as well as tourism. Using tableaux photography I will be exploring the boundaries between fact and fiction, using the factual locations with stage, fictional actions.

Design: Consider the following

• Format, size, orientation: I am choosing to go with a standard A4 20x25cm portrait orientation, I have chosen portrait as I want the allowance to be able to create impactful double page spreads and portrait orientation works best for this I feel. The standard size means I can keep it not overly large and abnormal, as the context isn’t too normal this allows the book to create a sense of reality and normality juxtaposing its contents.
• Binding and Cover: I am choosing to use a hardback cover using an image wrap. I feel I can create a larger impact by having a full bleed double page image wrap rather than smaller images or a plain cover. With regards to binding I will have a saddle stitch, hidden by the cover, the simplicity I feel will help to not distract from the narrative
• Sequencing: I am planning to move from one narrative to another, to do this I plan to use a starting image and keep a steady sequence going of mixing double page spreads and individual smaller photographs.
• Title: I am looking to make my title something surrounding fantasy, I am thinking of using “A Flight of Imagination” – a different way of talking about fantasy in a way which I feel is more mysterious and intreeging.