1. Write a book specification

Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words
• Documentation of family.
• A sentence
• Creating documentation of my feeling of nostalgia through childhood memories.
• A paragraph
• Creating a documentation of what I find nostalgic through exploring my heritage and nationality. I am taking photographs of family and landscapes in both Jersey and Madeira. This is to recreate childhood memories and portray my family story in the form of a photobook.

Design

How you want your book to look and feel: I want my photobook to have a storyline. I want it to look like a documentation of my family, and I want the divide between my life in Jersey and my life in Madeira to be clear. I photographed the natural pools of Porto Muniz, which I want to include as a double-page spread in my book. This will be used as a metaphor for travelling across from Jersey to Madeira, creating this divide and separating the images.

Paper and ink: Hardcover book with premium paper and lustre finish

Format, size and orientation: Standard portrait format (20cm x 25cm)

Title: I wanted to choose a Portuguese word for my title, as my book is mostly consisting of photographs I’ve taken in Madeira of my family and family home. I’ve chosen the word Saudades as it refers to a feeling of melancholic longing. I thought this fit with the nostalgia theme as ‘nostalgia’ also refers to a longing, but of the past. This is to communicate how I miss my family in Madeira as well as the island itself.

2. Produce a mood-board