BoW: Assignment 5 Submission

This was my initial submission for Assignment 5 of Body of Work, which after further discussion with my tutor we agreed that a hard copy of the joint book would be better to help my tutor to understand what I was having difficulty in describing.

The submission was split into two books; one for Thornhill and the other for Glasgow.  Whilst they are separate books, they are best appreciated when opened together and viewed as a four page spread.  My intention is to physically join these books together along one edge so that they can unfold into this four page layout.  To create this, the Thornhill book is designed to be read from front to back, whereas the Glasgow book is intended to be read from back to front, and as I say, the ultimate intention is that each double page spread for Thornhill has a corresponding double page spread in the Glasgow book.  I have tried to explain this in an earlier blog post on Assignment 5.

The two books are Thornhill book and Glasgow book

It is also worth mentioning that since Assignment 4, I had the opportunity to present my work at the Barnsley student residential and a couple of further Scotland Study Group sessions, which both confirmed my growing sense of the work  that it needed something a bit more to lift the work another level.  I was encouraged to take what I thought at the time was quite a substantial risk in changing the work so late on between Assignment 4 and the final 5th Assignment – thinking that if you do not like it then I will be in trouble at such a late stage in the process.  You will probably be pleased however that having worked on it for quite some time I am now comfortable in taking this forward as my final outcome for Body of Work, and less inclined to worry about ‘what my tutor might think’.  It has been an interesting journey and hopefully you will agree a fascinating outcome compared with where I might have started – and could have ended up!

In terms of next steps, I will obviously look forward to, and appreciate, any comments you may have on this work, whereby I will then intend to create a dummy hardcopy version of this book for Assessment purposes before then creating a more professional, high quality book as part of the final module – more of which I describe in the evaluation document.  On that, I have also included with this assignment a copy of my ‘Introduction’ and ‘Evaluation’ associated with this work.

Land Values: Introduction & Evaluation

Assignment 5 Book Layout

This post is in preparation for submitting my 5th and final assignment for my Body of Work.  As previously mentioned, the work is now split into two books which are then connected along one edge and then folded to create a single book.  My intention at the moment is to send my tutor a PDF of each book and then use the following to explain how they work best when viewed together over a four page spread. Once I have gained feedback on this I will then create a physical ‘dummy’ of the combined books ready for assessment, and then take it to a more professional level within the next module.

Before I start with the layout, I just want to acknowledged that whilst the following shows my intended experience of viewing this book, the advantage of the final product will be that the viewer can decide for themselves how they want to approach it.

The following is the front cover for the combined book, which will have the title ‘Land Values’ below it.  To make this work, this front cover will actually be printed onto the rear cover of the Thornhill book (its how the folding works):

When opening this cover you will be presented with two further covers, one for each book.  Physically, the one on the left will be the front cover of the Thornhill book, and the one on the right will be the rear cover of the Glasgow book (confusing I know, but please bare with me).  The text introduces the concept of values to the way we might value land:

From now on, the Thornhill book (left) will be read from front to back and the Glasgow book (right) will be read back to front – to create the following comparative four page spreads.  For this next spread, the blue page is the inside cover and the text is the inner title page alongside my name:

In this first spread the text introduces the two places of Thornhill on the left and Glasgow on the right:

The following shows all the other four page spreads, noting that I have highlighted where text will be placed but the PDF of the final product will need to be viewed to see what the text is.