Narrative: What is your story?

3 words: Being Stereotyped

A sentence: The story is about a tomboy who likes to skate and hangs out with guys.

A paragraph: A girls who is considered one of the boys, has more male friends than girl friends. A girl who likes to skate and surf and do things a typical guy would like to do. But society feels the need to put a label on her TOMBOY even though she is very much a girl and like do go get her nails done and loves shopping.

Design: Consider the following

How you want your book to look and feel

Colour, I want it to feel moody but still have light and some colour, I have decided to put in only some images with graffiti in the book as I feel like graffiti or ARTISTS that like to publicly display their art this way are shunned and also stereotyped much like SKATERS and ‘TOMBOYS’ as most consider it ‘VANDALISM’ rather than ART and people expressing themselves. Although society has started to accept some artists and some people even pay for a graffiti artist to put his design on sides of buildings which makes me feel happy that times are slowly changing but some are still stuck in their old mentality.

Paper and ink

black ink

Format, size and orientation

Standard A4 portrait (20x25cm)

Binding and cover

Hardcover with a Dust Jacket

Title: TRIBE inc. ina graffiti style if I can find a font that’s decent on either photoshop or lightroom.

It is going to be in black.

Design and layout

Most pages are going to be full bleed while others are in a different layout. A lot like organised Chaos.

Editing and sequencing

I want a smooth transition between the images also I would want it to be unpredictable for the reader and have some random double page spreads.

Images and text

The essay at the end of the photobook, the Title and my name will be on the first page and have an opening Quote. I will also have some direct quotes from skaters/ my friends on top/ next to some photos.