Final Booklet

Booklet - Front and Back Cover

For my front and back covers I used images I found of New York city, one old and one new, in the background which I divided down the middle. I used old and new style fonts for the title which I arranged on each corresponding side. I put the word 'old' on an angle to give it a fluid look, and left the word 'new' horizontal to give a mechanic, uniform feeling. I desaturated both images and decreased the contrast in tones as I felt that it worked better compositionally, as to not detract from the booklet's title. The font I used for 'Old' was alot more detailed and interesting than the font I used for 'New' as the background of the old half is a lot less detailed than the background for the new half which creates a nice balance between the sides.

Booklet - Freestyle

For my 'freestyle' pages, I decided to use my image of the bible from my third spread of the booklet because I really liked its symbolism, but felt like the symbolism was wasted in my third spread, as the image was made so abstract.

I originally planned to incorporate other imagery. But when I attempted this, I felt like it cluttered the image, and drew away from the portrayal of the theme in the spread. So instead I edited the photo to make the age, and deterioration of the bible more obvious. I desaturated the image because black and white images always read as 'old' to me. I personally think that although simple, the image in this spread is strong, and speaks for itself.

Booklet - Spread Four

I didn't want to base my fourth double page spread on any particular image pair from the life and death exercise. This is because I wanted to creatively combine the 'old and new' theme with the idea of life and death, and I could not think of an appropriate way I could do this with any of the image pairs I made for exercise four.

I used an image of a newborn baby to represent the ideas of life and new, and in image of an old man to represent the ideas of death and old.

I increased the warm tones, and made the image of the baby and her mother softer in terms of contrast to enhance the feeling of life. I increased the cold tones by using blue filters and increased the harshness of the image of the old man to give the feeling of death. I also darkened some areas of the photo around the outside and contrasted this with a strong light on one side to symbolise 'going towards the light', and therefore death further.

I think that the contrasting tones, colours, and harshness of the two images, along with the symbolism of the photos works very effectively in this double page spread to compare my two themes.

Booklet - Spread Three

For my third spread, I scanned an image of my Great Grandfather's bible, which I feel is representative of being old and new as it is a very old object (and shows this through it's deterioration), but is also an addition of the 'New' Testament.

I increased the contrast in tones, added colour, and zoomed in to this image, to make the final image very abstract.

Booklet - Spread Two

I (loosely) based my Typography spread on my Congested Final from exercise two. (Pictured below)

I like how the type in this final separates the white space on each side of the composition. In order to work it into my double page spread, and show a comparison between old and new, I decided to instead make the type at each side of the page (with an area of empty space in the middle to divide them), as opposed to the middle with empty space at the sides.

For my spread I decided to continue the idea of congestion, but divided the old and new sides with an un-congested space in order to contrast the themes more effectively.

I used different fonts which I thought were symbolic of old and new for each side to show their contrast. I also used words (which are synonyms for old and new) instead of sporadic lettering and congested them in a style aesthetic which I thought flowed with its corresponding theme.

I used imagery of parchment and a cityscape in the background which overlapped in the middle to further divide the two themes.

Booklet - Spread One

I think the picture from Exercise one that worked best compositionally for me was my tumble one. (pictured below)

I don't think that any of my final compositions would have worked effectively over a double page spread to convey the theme I have chose (old and new). To resolve this, I thought it would be a good idea to use the same composition twice over the double spread, with contrasting images/'textures' relating to my theme.

I used different images for old and new ways of communicating for the square element of this picture (a postage stamp and email logo), and different images for old and new methods of viewing information (an old film reel and dvd) for the circles.

I initially intended to include different images for the triangle part of this composition, but once I put them in, I found that they cluttered up the image too much, and as only a small portion of them were to be seen anyway, the composition was more effective without them, and just the blain black triangle behind them.

I arranged the the two pictures mirrored over the double spread as I felt that it created a balance over the pages, and meant there was no blatant division between the two sides.