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Illustration Development

I have began narrowing down my photography, by selecting the most successful, in theme images from the journey I can illustrate the highlights and strong features of Northenden Village.

I felt it was important to select a strong collection of photos as these will be reproduced through illustration, if it looks professional as a photo then the illustration will look even better so I prioritised this task.

 

Once I had my final images, I renamed them with the location and address of the image, reminding me which image was where, this was so I could organise the final illustrations into the order of my journey. To do this I used google maps as well as some notes I made on my trip- these provided me with accurate loactions of my illustrated travels.

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Trip 8/12/18

I revisited Northenden Village while the sun was out to capture my final photos for illustration. I started at the co-op, where a sign welcomes you into northenden, this is where I decided to begin my journey.

I travelled from the entrance of northenden palatine road, along Mill Lane and towards Riverside Park, I directed myself along the river and brigde while finding my way back through a walkway, I stop at different roads such as Queenhill, Ford Lane and Moor End to take moments from the suburbs. I made sure to capture buildings such as the Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Saint Wilfrid Northenden Parish Church, as well as many moments down the village on Palatine Road.

 

 

On my journey I considered the archival gallery that I had been looking at;  before leaving for my visit I collected a variety of images from the series that had the address of the place, I did this so I could implement similar photos to the archival series where ever I could. on my visit I was able to locate a few of the images the best I could, responding to the addresses of the images, I visited as many as I could while sticking to my journey.

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Developing Draft

Since I can’t retrieve my images and illustrations till a nicer day, I have been developing a draft of my photo-book using the design softerware in snapfish online. I explored the templates, sizes and bindings types, I experimented with a couple using old photohraphy from the brief, this was to familiarise myself for when it came to producing the final.

developing draft

I developed three different projects on this website which allowed me to save them, I will insert my finals into these projects at the end and narrow down my final.

familiarising myself with software
familiaring myself with the snapfish design system – organising my pcitures and playing with formats and layouts in projects that ive saved on their website.
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Trip 30/11/18

I visited Northenden after my presentation to gather a range of photography for the rest of my project development and my photobook, I feel the weather and timing of my visit have a negative impact of these visuals therefore I will return back on a sunny day – I will do this by checking the forecast or heading down there when the weather shifts.

 

 

 

Due to the onset of winter, I feel this may be tricky as I would like light spring weather to compliment the style and lighting of the images.

I am still pleased with my trip as I was able to aquire some reference images for my final works these were:

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Design development

Planning album content

Since my last post I have been developing the concept of my photo-album. I wanted to strengthen the collection of images my illustrations will be based on so I created a list of potential ideas:

 – Travel through the village capturing images every few moments to gather an illustrated experience of Northenden – A walk through

– Replicate the online archival records of northenden, visiting the same locations and recreating the shots

-Explore northendens key features through close up cinematic illustrastion

I felt the archival album could be a great twist to my concept so I began exploring the online gallery further. My only issue was, I couldn’t recognise all of the places on the online images and some I was certain were areas in disdbury,  I did however find some photos with a road name and some with an address which I found promising.

I have decided the best solution is to produce an illustrated trip through Northenden village, reproducing the images that I can in order with my walk through illustrations.