Name: It may sound daft but please get this part right.
Exploring printmaking, book design and paper engineering. History research based project on Boys Village, Trefil Quarry and Hetty Pit.
Title/Theme/Subject: It should be declared confidently from the outset what your goals and aims are.
"Tales of Wales"
History based project regarding industrial past of Wales. Described/presented places includes Boys Village, Hetty Pit and Trefil Quarry. The aim of the project is to create interactive book to help viewers/readers to experience passing time, and changes to the history of given places. By interaction with that book people may see how all those places looked like years ago and what was happening there - also they may see how places looks like now.
Introduction: A brief context or scene setter, a backgbound to the concept/idea and the environment/marketplace it will exist in with clear indication of your audience.
I was interested in local history since my first Uni trip. My lecturers took as to Trefil Quarry, Blaenavon Ironworks and to Big Pit. I didn't know that Wales used to be so much industrialised, and I've started researching local history, exploring places like quarries, ironworks and mines. It become my main interest and all my projects always had something to do with those places. Most of my projects for my BA Photography had always something to do with industry, wales history or derelic places. And again this time I've decided to do something new, different, but somehow connected to my beloved subjects! On the very beggining I was planning to do book including 3d anaglyphs from Trefil, as I think that place is amazing, beautiful and so huge that normal images would never show its beauty. But it seemed too easy, so I've decided to design a historical book, full of interactive parts such as flaps, windows, movable wheel, and other mechanism, and to research paper engineering and printing methods rather just do book full of anaglyphs.
I would like it to be educational and experimental project. I think history is important part of education, especially local history. I would like my book to be interesting for all ages - adults and children. I would love to create this kind of books for charities, historical societies and museums. Maybe it is not masive market, but it's quite rare what I am doing and it could be quite interesting for museums to have that kind of books I think. Interactive books like this would be benefit for readers as most people are visual learners, and it could help them to remember some important historical facts, that's why I think educational aspect is quite strong.
The Brief: Identify the problem/area you wish to address or explore. Ask yourself the kind of questions that the viewer may ask on the final presentation. What makes this solution unique and suitable for higher level investigation?
In my project I would like to explore ways of printing (handmade paper printing, printing on tracing paper, printing on foil, lenticular printing, creating and printing of 3D anaglyphs etc.). Another thing I would like to research and try is paper engineering (pop-outs, movable elements, sliding parts, turning wheels, cuting things out and more). Also different ways of book designs and styling. It may include double sided design/printing, single sided design/printing, puting book together, binding, designing folding pages, single pages etc. It's a lot to think about - book layout, pages layout, choosing mechanisms, size, paper, etc, ect. Another subject I would like to research is creating dioramas - from basic things such as creating terrain using plaster, to things such as designing little buildings, printing them on plasticard and then folding it. I am not sure yet of how many dioramas I will create, I would love to create all three but it's depend of time. I will start of doing Boys' Village diorama as it would be most complicated one and work out if I will manage to create other two as well, as it is very time consuming.
Assessable Outcomes: What will the outcomes of your research be and how will they be assessed? If open-ended,what stages/benchmarks/learning outcomes will you set yourself to clarify and review your progress?
Stage one: researching history and collecting documents and old photographs.
Stage two: researching printing methods and paper engineering.
Stage three: creating a plan (some basic ideas of what I will use in my book)
Stage four: field trip planning (what kind of photographs I will need for my book)
Stage five: field trips
Stage six: editing photographs
Stage seven: designing a book
Stage eight: book printing
Stage nine: researching dioramas
Stage ten: creating diorama/s
Still trying to sort this out, but can't really focus on writing as there is so many things to finish up (Book)!!!! :(
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