Notes 1 - 17th - 21st Feb 2022

Idea

• Revise a old project of mine, called ‘I'm too young to be ill’.
• This project was about showing that my invisible illnesses are real through self-portraiture, staged and candid shots around my house and the places I visit.
• I want to reimagine this project as it has been 4 years and I have learnt many new skills since then which I would like to explore and create a new body of work that not only creates a story of the invisible me but is a advocate for others suffering.
• I think I we be able to create a much better project and turn it into a book.

Format 

I will defiantly be shooting digitally due to shooting self-portraiture which I know I will be taking lots of images whilst getting my settings right and I feel as though shooting film would be a waste of time and money. If this was a long standing project initially I would shoot on fil as well as digital to give myself an idea of what it looked like both ways and then I could chose whether or not to do either or, or a combination.

Equipment 

Cost 

• X1 Ream of Paper = £04.58
• 4 x Inkjet Cartridges, Brother Genuine Supplies = £40.30
• Electricity bill at home = £36.60
• Petrol, Wear & Tear (Per round journey to Uni) = £30 (2 days) x 6 weeks = £180
• Blurb – Hardcover Image Wrap, 20 Additional pages, Remove Blurb Logo, End Sheet Upgrade, Delivery = £50 Roughly

Total = £306.90

Petrol = 149.67p per liter

Wotton-Under-Edge – Hardwicke, Cheltenham – Wotton-Under-Edge = 66 miles

Miles = 66

MPG = 35

Fuel Cost, pence/liter = 149.67

Total = £12.83 x 6 weeks = £76.98

Mondays and Wednesdays (x2) = 153.96 + Wear and tear £2.17 = £26.04

Petrol + Wear and Tear = £180

Initial Shooting Plan & Timescale

• Sat 12th Feb – Sun 27th Feb 2022 Initial Planning, Research & Test Shoots
• Mon 14th Feb 2022 Final Proposed Presentation
• Mon 28th Feb – Sun 27th Mar 2022 Shooting
• Mon 28th Mar – Sat 30th April 2022 Editing
• Sat 30th Apr 2022 Send book to print
• Mon 04th Apr 2022 Industry Review Day
• Mon 16th May 2022 DEADLINE 3pm

Planned Output 

• A printed book, containing not less than 35 separate and distinct images on a singular theme, your book can be hand-made if you wish, but it is suggested that you publish your book via Blurb or other POD printers, which will save you considerable time and stress.
• Hardcover Image Wrap
• Standard Paper
• Remove Blurb Logo
• Bookwright

I have decided to use Blurb again because I found it very useful, appropriate and user friendly. I also found that InDesign is not very user friendly and found it extremely hard to navigate, however Bookwright is very user friendly and know I understand how to use it I think I can be more creative with it.

For Reflections On The Real I chose Hardcover Dust Jacket, Premium Luster Paper, and to remove the Blurb Logo. From this I now know that I don’t like the Dust Jacket as the edges are too easily worn. Next time I would like to use a Image Wrap to keep better conditions.

I have chosen a book as my planned output with the possible addition of an A1, 2 or 3 Image alongside. As much as I enjoy seeing my work framed and mounted, I’ve never enjoyed going to galleries as much as I like looking through photobooks so for me, I am siding with personal preference.

My choice to remove the Blurb Logo comes because I feel as though a book without a company logo of the publisher is more professional and the blue logo in my opinion ruins the end of the book. 

Potential Issues 

1. COVID-19 – Unlikely Lockdowns and restrictions.

2. Own personal health – days where I can't produce work.

3. Unpredictable weather, like storms

4. Not enough studio slots

5. Lack of studio experience

6. Car problems 

Notes 2 - 04.03.22

Book Layouts 

I can use scan...

• Notebooks
• Pages
• Tablet Boxes 
• Information packets 
• Hand written notes 
• Medical Letters 
• Rip images and scan in 
• Draw over images and scan in 
• Split images into diptychs and triptychs 

001 - Major Body of Work

Notes 1

Little Ideas and more notes...

• Look at taking pictures all through the day
• Using my medication and prescriptions
• Using my phone to document and take images also
• Self portraits/with remote?
• Lighting (Flash on and off)
• Phone vs Camera
• Photobombing – dogs (reality) – Not Candid
• Using time – clocks in the background
• Shoot plans & dates
• Self portraits – holding up in writing how I feel and what hurts
• Blurry and sharp images? – Why?
• Add images to mind maps

Notes 2

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