STORY: What is your story?

• 3 words : My personal diary
• A sentence : A range of photos from key events in my life 2020/2021.
• A paragraph : I am going to create my own personal photo diary, taking pictures of people I love as well as all the simple, mundane parts of my life. The photos will depict my forest memories, good and bad, that I would like to remember.

NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?

SPECIFICATION

and describe in detail what your book will be about in terms of narrative, concept and design with reference to the same elements of bookmaking as above:

• How you want your book to look and feel. I would like the book to fell matte and smooth like ‘Diary’. It could possibly have a textured surface.
• Paper and ink. matte images and matte pages.
• Format, size and orientation.
• Binding and cover.
• Title : some of my ideas have been ‘dear diary’, or ‘dear future me’, but my favourite title has been ‘Dear, Liw’ which really focuses on who’s life my book is about; myself.
• Structure and architecture: random arrangement of images, jumbles dates. One image per page preferably, and all the images will be the same size. Most of the images will be edited in the same way to keep consistency and authenticity.

Design and layout. Editing and sequencing. There will be one image per page in the same orientation, mainly landscape and not portrait. Photos will rarely be in black and white. Images will mainly look like disposables (aiming to edit like Nan Goldin and Corinne Day). Random sequencing, what images look best together on opposing pages. All images will be mostly edited the same, I will try to not crop the images so they are as real to the scene I took a photo of.

Images. New photographic responses, photo-shoots. I will be taking photos on a daily basis of my friends and family. I plan for all of my images to be extremely candid. Due to the fact they will not be particularly planned, it gives a natural feel like a diary would and lets the audience feel like they’re in the moment with me. Old photos from family albums, iPhone. I may want to use photographs from 2020. Due to C19, I have not been able to see/ meet with friends and family like I would usually. I would like to use some images from 2020 t fill my book with lively events.

text. letters, documents, poems, text messages. These will caption each photograph in my book. There will be short caption to each image, explaining what the image is about, however I plan to write what makes sense to me; I’m not explaining the whole story, just what reminds me of the event/ experience. I also plan to scan through my own handwriting to caption each image, making it further seem like my own diary. I could include ‘souvenirs’ from days such as tickets and wrappers, letters etc.

2. Produce a mood-board of design ideas for inspiration. Look at BLURB online book making website, photo books from photographers or see previous books produced by Hautlieu students on the table in class:

images will include things like:

• washing my own first car
• practicing driving for the first time
• going on family walks
• going to friends
• meeting with my boyfriend
• cool images that I find interesting