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 Past, memories, family
- A sentence My photo book is going to be about where my grandads favourite places where to visit when he came to the island.
- A paragraph My photo book is about my grandads favourite places that he loved to go when he came over to visit. The images include pictures of the surrounding landscape and then restaged images of my dad that had my grandad in them to replicate the special memories that he had here.
Design: Consider the following
- How you want your book to look and feel
- I want the book to have a hard cover and by debossed with the title of the book and then I want to have the debossed writing covered with gold leaf to make it stand out on the dark background of one of the images. I want to have a big picture of St Ouen’s Bay going across the front and back cover as this was my grandads favourite place to go when he came.’I want the book to have a hard cover and by debossed with the title of the book and then I want to have the debossed writing covered with gold leaf to make it stand out on the dark background of one of the images. I want to have a big picture of St Ouen’s Bay going across the front and back cover as this was my grandads favourite place to go when he came.
- Paper and ink
- I want the paper to be shiny and not matte so that the images look more professional and are better quality.
- Format, size and orientation
- Some of the images I have taken are portrait but most of them are landscape images so I want to do a Landscape book so I can have the bigger images of the surrounding over a double page spread to separate out the images.
- Binding and cover
- I want the binding to be a saddle stitch and the cover to be a hard cover with my image printed on.
- Title
- A Map of Moments or souvenirs of the soul.
- Structure and architecture
- Design and layout
- The layout of my photobook has been designed so that the images link together and tell the story.
- Editing and sequencing
- I have tried to sequence the images so they look like they were meant to be put together. For example where my dad is sat on a bench that overlooks corbiere and the image next to that is a landscape photo of the lighthouse making it look like he’s overlooking the rest of the world.
- Images and text
- I have added my essay into the back of my photobook which explains the question that I was exploring.