Visual Narrative - Tell an untold story - Final Design

Final Design:

This is my final book. I decided to increase the size of the book to 190mm x 1710mm (including the cover). I thought I might aswell make the book bigger because my image was high resolution so quality no would be lost.

I didn't need to use indesign to create my book, I could print it straight away at the size it was and measure where to fold each page when printed.

I printed out 3 on the same roll incase any messed up whilst folding. Folding the book was difficult, I folded one book and the margin was out of line. The pages had to be exactly 130mm to make it rap round neatly. I used the folding press in the print room to measure out my pages, this allows you to set a size for the pages to be. This really helped with my design as there was no crop or fold marks.

Im pleased with how the finished print. The colours look bold and vibrant and the lines are strong and dark. Im pleases id decided to resize the book. I feel this is a good size for the book. The previous dimensions would have been to small - I feel it has more impact at a larger size.

Im really pleased with the flush margin. I wasn't 100% sure how it would rap around. Id taken a good guess at how big it needed to be but there was no way to tell how thick the folded book would be until it was printed. 

There was one think that I hadn't thought about when designing the cover. Id originally intended for the double pages to be with alternate pages. Its hard to explain, but basically the last page ended up being the back cover instead. I don't think this is a problem its just not the way I intended the pages to be read.

Im pleased with the overall aesthetic to the book. I like continuousness and composition of the buildings. The story is also bold and obvious and I'm pleased with how readable it is. I am pleased with my decision making on Photoshop and I feel the book pulled together nicely. But I can't help but think now I'm reflecting back on it that it look slightly more linear and basic than i'd initially intended. Id slowly started to ignore some of the line qualities I had looked at to communicate the decay. My final has has a different aesthetic, more magical and fairytale like rather than derelict and abandoned.