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Exporting
I can't seem to upload even a 30 second video so I have included screenshots in my previous posts of the Conversation I had with my Mum that I used as half the content in my final outcome.
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Trouble Exporting
I have tried including the Conversation I had with my Mum on Wiseflow and Tumblr but due to it being over hour it’s too large to submit. However I have tried exporting a few mins of the conversation into Tumblr and it is still not excepting the video, so I have included some screenshots and tiny clips.
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Evaluation
What changes and development has my project gone through?
There has been many changes throughout my project, initially I wanted to focus on designing a magazine to celebrate women. However, after a few weeks of researching I found myself struggling. I discovered after a tutorial that this is not what I wanted to do, I had interest in my subject matter but I wanted to conduct my own vigorous investigation. Discovering an untold story and collecting my own primary research, I wanted to go on a discovery myself. For that reason my project changed to a personal story about myself and my Mum.
The development stage of the project was difficult, I designed a first draft of the book but after feedback from my tutorial I realised that I had made systems and composition the driving force of this project. I still had my ISTD hat on and it was time to take it off. I wanted to incorporated the skills I had obtained throughout the ISTD process but to allow the emotions and the words from the story to reflect the design. The development stage went through many experiments with different typefaces which was essential to the design process.
What Informed and motivated my design decisions?
I went out of my comfort zone with this project, my pervious editorial work has been dynamic and loud and I took great inspiration at the beginning of the project from Matt Willey and Chris Clarke from The Guardian magazine. Later on in the project I was really inspired by Sarah Lipppet, her work resonated with me due to us both being under Great Ormond Street. Seeing her illustrations and how the emotions seeped out of the page and made me really emotional I knew my book needed to do the same. My own connection and emotions to my project informed and motivated my design decisions.
Did I manage my time well throughout the unit?
To manage my time well I used timetables and day to do lists to enable my goal to be achievable.
How did I respond to feedback?
The feedback from tutorials each week have been incredible useful. The feedback from Rich, Sally, Hannah, Joesph and Ben, has allowed my project to grow and improve week on week.
Also doing ISTD alongside my Fmp has taught me to take in the feedback from tutors but to also have more confidence in my own design decisions which has allowed myself to become a more confident and independent designer.
What have I learnt from this unit of study?
In this project I have learnt to take risks and to challenge myself. Creating a delicate and sensitive design was not easy which can be seen clearly in my first draft. But I have also learnt to start again, to keep the same content but to completely change the design. In previous projects I wouldn't have the confidence to do that. However, having to change everything but the content for my ISTD project gave me the confidence in myself and my ability to have the attitude of ‘I’m going to change everything, and it will be better.’
Which I successful did in both my ISTD and Fmp project.
Any improvements?
Always, If I had more time I would of experimented further with colour, paper stocks, type sizes, grids and systems. However, due to this being personal story I know I will always look back at this project and see improvements.
But I am happy with my final outcome printed, holding the small delicate book in my hands and feeling the different paper stocks was a success.
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Taking pictures of the book
Images of pictures taken in the photography room with Emily as my helper, due to how small and thick the book is I had to have someone hold it open to take pictures inside. I took over 100 pictures so these images are the edited ones.
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Playlists
I wanted to add this in, designing these pages over and over again was emotionally exhausting due to the content. I found myself thinking about the composition than what the text is saying and what it means again and again. I tried to black out the story because sometimes I was just too hard.
When this happens I decided to listen to the soundtrack of two Peter Pan films as most of book is set in Great Ormond Street. And this method worked well it instantly put me straight back into the story and the emotions I feel to the story and to Great Ormond Street which I spent most of my childhood going there from the age of 1- 17 years old.
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Why did I choose Filling In the Gaps?
I was struggling with the title because I didn't want it to be like ‘dear diary’ or ‘Mum’ or a quote from the book.
I phoned up my Mum to ask what she thinks.
I explained to my Mum how I was thinking about the title to be something about memory. This is because my Mum is haunted by these memories, memories she will never forget.
Whereas for me I don't remember because I was only a year old. I explained to my Mum that whenever I try to explain to peers what my project is about people think that I only found out recently what happened to me. THIS IS WRONG!
I have grown up hearing the story, i know exactly what happened to me, I have the scars over my body from the operations in 2001/2002. And I remained under Great Ormond Street for 16 years, leaving at the age of 17. Which for me was only four years ago.
My Mum suggested ‘Filling in the gaps’ because what my Mum revealed in the conversation that I did not know was about the ward and how she was feeling, what it was like. My Mum never really told me about that growing up, probably because we remained going up to Great Ormond Street and it was too hard to talk about.
The diary and the conversation filled in the gaps from my past that I did not know about.
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Front Cover
At the beginning of the project I mentioned that I wanted to do some letterpress for this project. So I decided to experiment with the front cover. I decided to use Letterpress on the front cover, to create a raw inprint of the title. I didn't use this method within the book because I don't think it would off worked well. If I had more time I would off done some experiments inside the book. But I think using this method for more than the cover would lose the impact.
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Binding the final book
My previous mock-ups I have perfect bound but due to the book being over 300 pages I have to whipstich the book. This means sewing the pages together instead of using glue. This was my first time doing a whipstitch and I really enjoyed the stitching! I have definitely seen a huge improvement in my book binding skills, if I did this at the beginning of the year I would off really struggled. Even though this method is a lot more time consuming as it took me the whole day to just bind. I’m glad I didn’t perfect bind because I have know learnt a different method of bookbinding.
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