Assignment 2: Presentation

Whilst I will probably only finalise the set for this assignment once I have had feedback from my tutor I have nevertheless in the meantime been giving some thought to how that set might be presented when the time comes for assessment.

For the last assignment of I&P I toyed with the idea of making a form of concertina book. Eventually I rejected the idea as it did not really present the message that I wanted to get across, and my then tutor was a little cautious from a technical point of view, such a thing not necessarily being easy to pull off. Ironically I understand that the assessors were quite keen on the idea! For the present project though I think it would be ideal.

I do have a precedent in mind in the form of Zoe Childerley’s book (2016) which she made at a time that I was helping out at VARC. From her experience I know that it was technically quite a difficult book to produce (the first production run had all of the photos in reverse order!) but the final version works really well, with the sequence of images on one side and a map of the route that Zoe walked on the reverse.

Something like that should work well here, though instead of a hand-drawn map I would propose to make up a strip from an up-to-date OS map. Subject to looking into the practicalities, I doubt whether it would be feasible, practically and financially, to have a book made up professionally. I know that there various companies out there that will make bespoke photo-books but I am not sure about something in quite this physical form. It should though be possible to make a reasonable hand-made example that will at least adequately illustrate the principle.

Childerley, Z, (2016) The Debatable Lands.  High Green: VARC

http://www.zoechilderley.co.uk/the-debatable-lands-book/4593164515

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