Today I visited the repographics department to look into the process of getting my book (The Stix) printed. I had planned and been a working on a indesign document, in a landscape format. I had planned on making the images landscape as I felt due to my work greatly being set in rural or natural landscapes, this would show case it best and be the most escapist format for the reader. The layout I havee created is landscape A4 pages, making long A4 landscape spreads when the book is opened, which I thought would be a unique format that would encourage the readers to take time looking into the images and turning the pages. However I was told have landscape A4 side by side as a spread isn’t something that can be done easily/within university. However there is an option to create an indesign document consisting of A4 landscape spreads that when printed could be trimmed down to create a smaller A5 landscape booklet. This would mean risking the image I wanted to create within my work through scale and restrict my graphic design choices to suite a smaller format, this being said I am also seeing it as oppurtunity to challenge myself into making this smaller version of my book. Although I love the idea of scale and getting lost in photography, the idea of my work being an artefact is something that is also important to me and I feel a smaller format has the possiblity to create a more intimate and precious documentation of my work. Infitting with my influence of storytelling and fantasy. I am also aware that I will be displaying my work on a large scale at the Final Show giving me an oppurtunity in both a very large and smaller intimate format, allowing me to see how it looks and fits in different contexts.
-Take the risk and print on a smaller scale, Consider medium mg weight natural paper. Artifical Glossy not fitting with nature themen and could create glare under exhibition spotlights.
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