BOOK SPECIFICATION
In my photo book, I’d like to explore with idea of transition within nature. My main idea is to look that the sand dune succession on the coast of jersey. On an island we are very lucky to have the landscape that we do. from the sea its self, the landscape transitions from beach, to dunes, to the woods. Throught my book I would like to use a model to act in each other different section on the dunes. St Ouens beach goes through a series of phases to become dunes. Primary succession can happen when bare sand is colonised by plants. Over time, the sand builds up into sand dunes, raising the ground above the height of sea level. Succession in sand dunes is sometimes called a psammosere.
Within my book, that I will create using bookwright and blurb, I will explore all sections of the sand dunes in order to see the full TRANSITION of the coastal succession. I would like to keep all artificial features out of my images, like buildings and roads to make the images as natural as possible, focusing on the dunes and sea. I’d like there to be one image from each part of the dunes/beach/woods. I think the transition of the coast is extremely beautiful and inspirational
- How you want your book to look and feel. It could possibly have a textured surface, like canvas to mimic the texture of marram grass, a plant that grows on the dunes.
- Paper and ink. matte images and matte pages.
- Format, size and orientation. small square
- Binding and cover.
- Title : some of my ideas have been succession or psammosere; a seral community, an ecological succession that began life on newly exposed coastal sand. Most common psammoseres are sand dune systems.
- Structure and architecture: I would like a organised sequence of images, starting with the sea and ending in the woods, so that there is a clear TRANSITION of the coastal landscape. 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. I would like my photos to be in back and white, so the viewer can focus on the landscape. I think that having the images in black really draws attention to the contrasts in the landscape, and accentuated the highlights and shadows in each image. Systematic sequencing will be very important to create a smooth transition from image to image and scene to scene. I would like to have one image on each double page spread, again creating further focal point to the images in the book.
Images. New photographic responses will be created during photo-shoots. I will include a model within my images to exaggerate the movement of the wind, waves etc. images will be in black and white like I’ve said before. I’d possible like to include a coloured image of the sand dunes on the cover of my book to add context and contrast to the images in the book. It will also make to viewer think about what colours the black and white images may have.
text. I dont plan on having any letters, documents, poems, text messages in my book, however I may include how each natural structure is formed in the dunes. These may caption each photograph in my book. There will be short caption to each image, explaining what coastal feature is in the image, like a story line to sand dune succession however, depending on how each image looks on the page, I may not include captions at all.
MY IMAGES WILL GO IN THE ORDER OF SAND DUNE SUCCESSION IN THE ORDER:
- the sea
- the beach
- the embryo dunes
- the grey dunes (higher dunes)
- possibly a dune slack (pond)
- the woods
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:
