Landscape Maquette

Landscape Maquette


After looking at several examples of photo books and especially being inspired by the book 'In Umbra Res' by Paul Graham I wanted to try and see what my book would look like made in a landscape style. The reasons I wanted to make a landscape maquette was because I came to the realisation that because my images were landscape, they would be able to be placed much better and I could afford to experiment more with the sizing of my images if I were to use a book that was landscape. Many of the documentary books I looked at were also landscape to suit the landscape images presented within them.
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I made this book by hand by sticking individual pages together then cutting and sticking images on the pages. Although this was very time consuming and was beginning to get frustrating after making several moquettes, I knew it was important to keep creating these physical books along the process as it is difficult to get a real feel of a book and how the order flows when just looking at it on a computer screen.

After making numerous maquette books in order to help trouble shoot with how I should layout my images in terms of sizing, order and where they are placed on my page, I decided to try and find a more time efficient way to create a book. When researching online for places I could get my book made, I came across the website 'Blurb' what caught my attention with the webiste blurb was that in order to create the a book you could download their own program which is designed for creating books. The app which I downloaded to my mac was called 'Bookwright'. This was a very simple and straightforward program which which was free to down load.

Even if I didn't want to purchase or make my book through blurb, this program was brilliant in helping me look at the layout of the book and being able to change around images as and when I wanted. This was a much better way as appose to constantly printing images and using folded paper.

Through the use of hand made maquettes and through the use of the online program blurb, once I had finally come to an order and layout of the images I was pleased with, I then had to think about the addition factors to the book such as the writing.  As the image above shows, I placed the writing which had been produced by Kenny Moyle then edited and added to by me, at the front of the book. However when in a tutorial with my tutor Jamie, we looked at an example of a photo book which was American. The images were placed to the right on every double page, and there was writing to the left. Not every image in the book, but several had writing to accompany them. The captions would have a title then a shot brief description or something about the image. I and my tutor really liked this idea and at this point I said to Jamie I had considered using writing throughout my book but had been yet to see any examples of this In other photo books. I decided this use of small captions throughout the book would help explain the days events a lot more as I was still very concerned with the fact people who know nothing about this unique event, still may struggle to grasp what exactly was happening in the images.

What I chose to do from here, was either use my own captions, which I created to help give a brief explanation of the images or I used actual quotes from the original piece of writing Kenny provided me with, as I found much of what he wrote, worked well in accompanying some of the images I had taken.

Because I had placed my images in chronological order, in order to tell the days events from begging to end, I had the idea of placing a time next to each caption to give the viewer of the book an idea of what time in the day these scenes took place.


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This concept was only an idea at this stage. I had to decide whether it was really necessary to use time frames next to the images. The only downfall I felt with this idea was the fact that not all the images had captions next to them meaning not all the images had times written next to them.