This week I have started putting my book together, what I have done may change over the final week of the module depending on feedback I get, as I want to play around with layouts. I have decided to go for a standard landscape book. I haven't yet decided on what paper to use or what cover to have. I have decided to go for a standard landscape so I can fit landscape and portrait images in their.
This is the cover I have decided on out of the ones I tried in an earlier post. I have chosen this particular image because it is quite general in the way that no indent takes over and it gives the reader the insight into me doing a photographic study of books. I think the lines within the book I have photographed guides the reader to the title of my book "Psychology of Reading". There is a slight indent at the back of the book, a pink book mark, it is suggestive not detailed because of the focus used, but I think this works to suggest I am looking at indents but not giving it all away on the cover. Because of the black background I have used I have written the title in white and cap locks for it to stand out. I have also used underlining for the same reason. The font I have used is Adobe Caslon Pro as I wanted a font that would be easy to read and rather basic. I also altered the tracking (the spaces between each letter) as this is often used in photo books to create easy readable text, especially in titles.
This is the first double page spread which I have used as a title page so the reader isn't put off by a lot of text straight away, it gives a kind of pause to the book opening. I have used the same text/ tracking technique as the title on the front cover to create a fluency.
This will be the spread for my foreword, which I will be writing this week. I will need to outline my purpose for the series and why I wanted to capture book indents. On the right page I have 3 small photographs from my edited series. The three images I have chosen are similar in composition in the way the whole books are in the photographic composition, they include small indents. The three photographs suggest what's to come along side the foreword I will write.
I have started putting photographs on the following spreads but I still need to work out whether to put different photographs of the same book together leaving blank pages to distinguish a different book or whether to randomly place different books together and distinguish these by small captions underneath. So far I have put the same books together but I may change this depending on feedback. If I place the randomly the images will speak for them selves and the caption will be more significant. The titles of the books are important as some of the indents I have documented seem to resemble the title of the book, for example words underlined could refer to the title. In the spreads I have done so far the same books are together, I just wanted to play around with layout until I get someone else's opinion on the organisation of images.
(Above) This is what I want a single page landscape images to be like, I want a white border around the image because captions will probably go under each photograph. This white border is often used when photographers are showing black and white images in book form, and as my image has a black background (so is quite dark) I want this. I think the white border also helps to focus in on the image, and make it a little border.
I want to put some landscape images on a double page spread, this will put emphasis on the particular photograph.
I will be having a black back cover to flow along side the black background in the front cover photograph. This will be strong as it will contrast with the white pages inside.
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