Plan for book

Plan for Book

I firstly went through my interviews to figure out which quotes I wanted to use to accompany my pages. From this I put them into a logical sense order so that they weren't random quotes next to each other.

This seemed to fit well. I realised that I only had 9 quotes which worried me for a few minutes but then I realised that most of the images I want to create will be landscape so they therefore will cover double pages.

After this I found reference photos I had taken and made word documents of images for each quote. So currently I feel that I have the inspiration and ideas for the pages I just need to decide on which media I am going to communicate these with.

Furthermore as I began to make a mock up saddle stitch book it became apparent that this order couldn't work in the first order as the images need to spread over a double page with the crease in the middle so I had to do a bit of moving around. I don't want all of the images to take up 2 sides as I feel some of them benefit from being portrait. This meant that actually I have ended up using more pages than the minimum 16. These are very basic roughs but they make sense when looking at the reference photographs :)

I want the font to be in different places on the different pages so that it is more engaging and less detached from the image and they harmonise together.

I feel that the inside and back page should be a pattern (as they often are) and what better pattern is there than the very characteristic oak tree leaves!

Whilst creating this saddle stitch book I encountered confusion (as predicted) with the numbering of the pages, especially when I added more than the original 16 together. I know that I really need to plan these pages out to avoid confusing and be careful when attaching all the images together on InDesign.

Quotes from interviews

Quotes

The direction of my tree booklet is towards capturing the atmosphere and beauty and strength that you feel whilst amongst trees.
I wish to include little snippets of peoples thoughts towards this to further promote the sense of being in oak trees from my interviews.
I am a fan of hand type however I wish to create a professional feel of this book and don't want attention to be distracted by the objectiveness of handwriting. I may try this out later on and compare and contrast the pros and cons though...

'see the colour of the landscape changing over the course of the seasons by looking at woodland'

'you get very often the trees softening the landscape so you can get the mountains and the woodland and I really like that sense of contrast that trees give the landscape'

'as if I was a bird flying over it and looking over at it from a distance'

'Every season brings with it some beauty and interest from trees I think.'

Ruth Pickvance


'I like the smell and the feel, the texture'

'actually think that I prefer naked trees to those covered with leaves. Because you see all of those intricate patterns '   

Michael Dudley


humans and trees work in conjunction with one another'

Christopher Hoare


'Trees are special. They are bigger than us physically and metaphorically'

''Trees have roots in the ground and reach up to the sky, linking earth with heaven'

Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman