Staples

I decided to print my book with Staples because I would like to display my originals at the exhibition. I designed the layouts and the front and back covers on Adobe InDesign and printed them out on A3. I will trim them down and bind the pages myself.

Book binding...

http://www.wikihow.com/Bind-a-Book

I found instructions on how to bind my own book, but I'm thinking of just buying a sketchbook and use that to put my final pieces in...

Journal: Reflect on Exploratory and Pathway Stages in Relation to the FMP

In my Final Major Project, I have revisited many of the techniques from the Exploratory and Pathway stages such as emulsion and tape transfer, collage, wax trapping and Photoshop layering techniques. I have further developed the collage, wax and Photoshop techniques because I felt as though they lend themselves very well to my project of stories from the Staffordshire Moorlands and the surrounding area as they allow me to tell the stories effectively. In addition, I have tried layering and collaging with new techniques such as printing on acetate which I also find works very well.

The collage images...

I decided to try to add a map into the background and a title on each one, I tried it on the Butterton Moor image first (Headless Horseman) and thought it was very effective and would make the collage underneath the acetate more interesting. So I did the sane with all my other chosen background images and also made the saturation lower so that the bright colours on the acetate stood out more.

Developing Ideas

Developing from my previous experiments, I produced some pieces that i have used the cutout and poster edges effect on, made them more colourful, and added white and black bits as well as the white text to get some bits transparent. (I added the cutout effect on Photoshop before the poster edges effect to make it even more posterised and simple.) I think the transparent parts work really well as you can see the collage underneath the acetate more clearly and it is more effective.





I think that when I do my final pieces, I will think more about where I'm putting the white bits and the collage underneath.

Text on the Poster Edges Acetate

The white transparent text on the poster edges works really well over the darker parts of the image but not so well on the coloured parts






So I tried putting the text in one of the darker areas and it looked much better

Writing in the Image

My tutor suggested that I put the text in the black image on Photoshop inspired by this image:



http://www.clker.com/clipart-sherlock-holmes-silouette-with-text.html










I think these work really well, I will continue to experiment with this technique as you can read the text clearly. I think it will be interesting to see how it looks with the poster edges effect.