Reflective Journal: 22/3/13 (2)

I wanted to learn a lot more about pop up so i started in southampton library looking at paper engineering books and children's pop ups for inspiration.

To carry on the research i come across a channel on YouTube about making and knowing about the basic pop-up techniques. Heres the videos that interested me the most.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cVZVPMMlE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zpw18Z-Os
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5E1hXcHNEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA-zqA4Xm-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvSaFj82-q0

After watching these it got me thinking on what work of my own i can create or adapt to work with these pop-up ideas. But firstly i gave the Pop-up techniques a go using magazine cut outs and plain paper.

Reflective Journal: 22/3/13

I researched into 'hard back' book binding as i know i am going to have to make the inside of the book myself, i wanted the binding to be original. here are some of the websites of the places i called around for quotes and timings.

http://www.gbbookbinding.org.uk/
http://www.manorbindery.co.uk/
https://plus.google.com/104877988078533471950/about?gl=uk&hl=en
http://www.southamptonbindery.co.uk/
http://www.caromar.ltd.uk/about.htm

Because of what i was asking for i was being quoted £200-£450 for one book, my plan was to have a few printed, so getting a hard back covered book at that price is now out the question and cofirms the adaptions i need to do to hand in on time.

The adaptions

In my proposal my vision was to create a hard back book half full of pop-up. I've decided due to time that the book with have pop up as a element of the book, so the pop-up will be more of a surprise and you look through. My next decision was to use simple pop up ideas so i can save time on making the book. Also to make the book as soft back due to it needing a week for printing instead of 4 weeks for a hard back, this all gives me time to create content for my book.

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I would like to mention that my post dates and the dates i have written on my post titles are different, this is because i write my thoughts and notes on paper, then update my blog as and when i can.

Getting back into things..

After a series of serious health problems happening in my family over the past month or so, i lost motivation for my work and uni all together and was close to giving up. At this point i chose to apply to extenuating circumstances.

During this period of time i still was looking and thinking (in a small amount) of what shoots i wanted to create, but getting up and doing it was the hard bit!....

i was having my 'up' and 'down' days but one morning about 2 weeks ago i woke up with the attitude of life WONT beat me. So heres where i started some serious research.

I got to grips with the fact that with the time i had left that i wont be able to fully ful-fill my brief so i started to think about what adaptions i could make...

Reflective Journal: 4.2.13

From the drawings that were created in 'Reflective Journal: 31.1.13' I created a beauty shoot using my drawings as inspiration. Image below.

I then experimented by photoshopping the two together. images below. 

Reflective Journal: 1.2.13

Art and design being my background,and I used to practise allot of drawing. So I went back to my roots and started to experiment with drawing my own illustrations.

Ink, and colouring pencils were used.

I then scanned my drawings into my computer and edited them but just changing the contrast and brightness to make the drawing look stronger and sharper.

So I've decided to created my own illustrations for my book.