Below are the images I am using for the photobook. Most of these are old family photos from my grandmother and mum and dad. There are also some recreations of old family photos at the end and some title pages including the front and back covers.

Write a book 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.

Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:3 words

My Family Story

A sentence

Where my family comes from and who came before me

A paragraph

I want to find out about where I came from and who came before me. I was never able to make many memories with my grandfathers from both my Dad’s and Mum’s side of the family. I want to get an idea of who they were and get to know them through the images I find.

Design: Consider the following

How you want your book to look and feel

I want it to be dull on the outside but colourful on the inside. I want it to feel like a hard back photobook

Paper and ink

I want the ink and paper to be faded so it has a very retro album look. I want it to look like an album that was made years before

Format, size and orientation

I want it to be an A4 size and portrait orientation

Binding and cover

I want the cover to have an image of the negatives that my family photos were developed with

Title 

Decouverte Du Moi. My family has French heritage so I decided to name it something French which translates to discovering myself

Design and layout

Single full bleed images

Single images non full bleed with white border

Editing and sequencing

I want to sequence the images like a family time line from the first images I have of my great grand parents to my parents and me.

Images and text

Above is the front and back cover of my photo book. To make it, I used the title Decouverte Du Moi and included my name and title again on the spine of the book. The covers are made up of all of the dates from the photos I used in the photo book. I added a light yellow filter to allow the dates to be seen clearly.

Above is the finalised layout of my photo book with the additions of the few recreations of images that I have made. I have experimented with different layouts of pages for example, instead of two photos just next to each other, I put one photo bigger than the other below or above the other one. I think this looks better than the draft I had before.

Above is my first recreation that I finished. I recreated an image of my uncle when he was a baby next to a car. It is not an exact copy however I wouldn’t want it to be a replica as I want the images to be inspirited recreations rather than replicas.

The next inspirited recreation was an image of my mum and uncle on the hood of a car. I recreated it in front of my uncles house as the original was taken in front of my great uncles house. I used my mums car in the image and I think it is a good outcome.

The last recreation is of an image of my uncle and mum when they were children. The image has a blue/ grey colour to it so I applied a colour scheme to the image in photoshop to make it more accurate. I cropped the image and I think it is another good outcome.

Above are some examples of different layouts for photos to make the pages look more exciting versus two photos next to each other.

Outcome

The outcome from the photo book project is a book which reflects me and my family. It shows moments from my family’s history in which happy moments have been made, as well as sad moments. From the best to the worst moments family carries on and i believe that shows a real power to do with photography as a way of recording moments as well as how together, family is strong and overcomes the toughest of challenges.