1. 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

Struggles, Athlete, Recovery.

• A sentence

It will show the physical, mental and emotional struggles an athlete has to deal with, due to injuries.

• A paragraph

My story will give another view on my subject’s life and how the struggles he has to deal with are a lot harder than the viewers would see. I go in-depth with different angles of him to showcase the loneliness, separation and isolation he has to deal with whilst being injured.

Design: Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel

Hard, stiff, clean, smooth with good clear images and text across all the pages.

• Paper and ink

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• Format, size and orientation
  I used A3 for my landscape photographs and A4 for my portrait photographs.
  
• Binding and cover
  Standard Landscape
  Hardcover Image wrap
  
• Title
  Rise to Recovery 
  
• Structure and architecture
  I have text across a few pages before my images to structure my idea for loneliness and isolation across the storybook.
  
• Design and layout
  I used some single page photographs for my portrait ones, but for my landscape images, I used a two-page spread layout, with black paper to match the theme of my images, but the paper and text colour changes throughout the essay.
  
• Editing and sequencing
  I edited my photographs mainly in black and white, but for some images I used colour-popping to show the red and orange throughout basketball. I also, made the images that were still in colour, to all match the other images in colour by having a similar tint on the top of them.
  
• Images and text
  My images are mainly in black and white but some are in colour with a same tint across all the in-colour images. For my text I used the font ‘High Tower Text’ with size 24pt for titles, 14pt for paragraphs and with a 24pt leading, spacing out my lines.

2. Produce a mood-board of design ideas for inspiration. Look at BLURB online book making website, photo books from photographers or see previous books produced by Hautlieu students on the table in class.

My Mood-board