Photobook Specification

My book will be about what life is like ot be a teenager in this current generation. My main focus is on male teenage life rather than female because I didn’t want my personal bias to be portrayed, I wanted to be an outsider I terms of Solomon-Godeu’s theory of insiders and outsiders. The concept will consist of an obsessions with cars and landscape images to contrast this, how there is so much beauty around us yet we focus on the things that destroy this. Creating a binary opposition in terms of Levi-Strauss’s theory. My design will be a normal photobook, with some multiple page spreads, and some smaller images to focus on the small print. I will also add text to my book so that I can really reiterate my narrative.

My story in 3 words, a sentence and a paragraph.

The Teenage Experience.

A portrayal of teenage life in comparison to generational changes.

My story is about male teenage life, and how it is altered depending on current world events. My book will contain examples of the current events, to portray a true authentic storyline of what it means to be a teenager in this generation. I want to do this to create a representation of how the current events change how we live, I will do this by using the view of an insider and an outsider.

Write a book specification 

Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words

Male Teenage Experience

• A sentence

A story line consisting of current trends and the way that teenagers life their life.

• A paragraph

A story line consisting of representation by using different photographic tools, such as landscape photography to portray how the environment around us changes out narrative. Also consisting of portrait imagery to make a personal storyline adding depth to the characters.

Design: 

Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel

I want my book too look consistent by using a sequence within my imagery, and I want it to feel smooth rather than shiny.

• Paper and ink

I will use premium paper and mainly black ink.

• Format, size and orientation

I want a smaller square book as to not stretch out my images which would focus on its imperfections.

• Binding and cover

My cover will be a wrapped image to contain the book.

• Title 

My title will be a short description of my book, trying to give as much context as I can in a short sentence.

• Structure and architecture

My book will have a structure which dive deep into the personality of each character and be broken up by a landscape image.

• Design and layout

I want to have some smaller images and some images that are full bleed to create attention to the full bleed images portraying them as more important to the story line.

• Editing and sequencing

I have edited my images to contain bold colours with some more personal black and white images.

• Images and text

I will add part of my essay into my book to create a contextual element.

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