My photobook contained over 40 images ranging from photos of the beach, rocks, landscape and history. Shown below are some of my favourite images throughout my rock project. All images below have been used in my photobook layout.

Photobook Preparation:

To begin our main mock preparation, we researched and deconstructed photobooks to help further understand how to create a good book. I looked deep into a photobook named ‘Beyond Here Is Nothing’, which taught me how to construct a book and write a good essay.

Leading up to our mock exam, we did many different photo shoots and small projects to be prepared for our essay and photobook. We went to La Hocq, L’Etacq and many other places. I created a photo-zine which is similar to my final photo book.

Also, we made 3d sculptures using foam board and paper to present some of our images from the My Rock project. This gave me some inspiration about what images can be used in my photobook.

To help with writing my essay I was tasked to write an essay on photo archives. I believe this was very useful for me because it taught be essay techniques and structure that was needed when writing our recent essay.

Project Evaluation:

Overall, I am very happy with hoe my project has turned out. I really like the way my photobook displays both L’Etacq and La Hocq’ beaches in a layout that suits me best. However, next time I will definitely make sure that I go on photo shoots relating to my essay, as for this project I didn’t gather any images leading up to the exam, because of that I had to use photos from past projects to create my book.

What went well:

I believe my overall editing process has gone very successfully when linked towards the layout of my photobook. Also, I think that my essay was written in a quality manner writing over 2000 words. My use of image selection has very much improved since our last mock exam by choosing images that are much more useful and related to the topic.

How can I improve:

I defiantly could’ve went on many photo shoots that linked towards the topic of my essay ‘Youth Culture’ rather than having to use past images of rocks and beaches. Also, next time I create a photobook I need to gain more images that could be used in the book due to this time I only had around 50 useful images when next time I want to gain at least 100.