Page development 4

Developing from added photographs, I have now embedded text under the fellowship and art theme, considering many personal thoughts and experiences. As I have been working for time periods on content, I feel I have developed a personal writing style along with a better headspace to ensure photographs link to quotations.

Page 28/29 has developed through the addition of text and a time. The quote on page 28 being a lyric from singer Troye Sivan's 'Talk me down,' I felt the lyric linked contextually to the theme along with visually to the photographs of ones lips and a hand. The placement of text breaks 'hands' and 'lips' as the photographs of both human features are also separate. Though subtle, this message expressed from the placement is imaginative and allows deeper thought. This specific artist also playing a role in terms of personal music listened to, making it more intimate between myself and the book. Another quotation on page 27 from inspiration Connor Franta's 'note to self,' and visual experimentation with the silhouette pointing towards the other page. The black and white being un-intentional, though linking to the anonymous identity idea silhouette photography has and quotation on page 27. Photographic settings for the photograph on page 27 included a brighter key light dial,  along with enhancement of highlights in Photoshop, to include some detail of the models face for a further aesthetic visual.

Writing and experimenting further with text placements, page 34 contains a draft of a poem associated with 'Art.' As most phrases upto this point of the book have been free verse, I have attempted to rhyme and wordplay more. The photograph being 'Peace is possible,' the tone of the poem takes an angry / frustrated perspective to then develop to 'peace' being 'possible.' Presenting more complex concepts towards my audience adds depth to the storyline - emphasising how much this character wants society to improve, overall linking to the project theme, how there are improvements to Waltham Forest due to London's Borough of Culture. Contextually for primary photography audiences, there is again an emphasis with evidence on how photographs can help tell stories. The negative space on page 33 allows the photograph to stand out by itself, especially emphasising what the graffiti sais.

Page 36/37 have been designed in a visually and aesthetically pleasing way. This being a page added in the moment rather than planned, as my thought process on location was to experiment capturing two photographs using shallow depth of field - one with the main subject - the 'lensball' in focus and one without, then to contrast with each other on a spread. The photographic technique of shallow depth of field is emphasised here, both photographs allowing separate perspectives of surrounding detail. Dull surrounding weather has further required me to 'enhance' the image in Bookwright.

My intentions for the ending had to overall include the sunrise, though the story begins with the character falling asleep, the journey just begins, therefore the sun rises in the dream. As the story ends, the sun sets, though she just wakes up in reality. Changes of this idea have been made from my previous production documentation under 'Free verse writing.'
The picture used for the final ending of journey could not be made into a full spread due to pixalation issues, this being the aesthetic I desired as the end of the journey was to be made dramatic, along with a visible photographic horizon line. This page therefore requires improvement. A further aspect that I have figured out whilst designing this ending is the continuity of timings in the book. As the times represent the dream development every often page, there had been a challenge of ensuring these made sense upto the point in the morning in which the character awakens. A personal conclusion I had come to was the idea that the character would wake up / the journey ends at 6:30am rather than 7:00, due to the amount of pages that contained timings and continuity. Planning for further improvements, more photographs that have not yet been included may be added therefore allowing more timings and an in-depth dream.