Book Project: #4 Objectives

The priority of this Work is to learn from the experience of doing; it is less about the content, storyline or novelty of the book itself.  To help maintain that focus, and avoid going off track, I have developed a set objectives: 

1. Apply Key Theories:

• A book is to be seen in totality, as a single experience; not as individual elements (photographs)
• Employ the different types of organizational structures: groups; series; sequences
• Employ compound structuring techniques: interspersed (structures); multiple exposures; split formatting; layering

2. Composition and Movement Techniques:

• Investigate the use of transparencies (e.g., for layering) and horizontally-cut pages (e.g., a page cut in half) to facilitate the expression of horizontal and vertical movement in the book; to enable multiple different paths through the content thus exposing different interpretations
• Investigate the use of techniques (e.g., transparencies) to re-arrange words and word fragments generating different messages
• Investigate the different picture relationship models: by format construction; by context of language; by levels of meaning; by point of view; by influence of environment
• Investigate techniques to compound pictures: collage; multiple exposure; grid, etc.

3. Display Techniques:

• Investigate the use of “Large format” displays
• Investigate the use of two-sided pages; single binding; 

4. Time / Pace Techniques:

• Investigate the techniques to “reveal” content
• Investigate the use of time: imposed from without; in-structure

5. Abstraction / Conceptualization Techniques:

• Investigate the use of Omission 
• Investigate the use of composition and movement techniques to expose primary and secondary messages;

6. A Manageable Scope:

• The topic should be sufficiently interesting to allow exercising the concepts and theory
• The topic needs to be doable; photographical

7. Process

• I want to see how much can be planned in advance and what needs to be done on the fly. I am specifically interested in the amount of advanced planning of the photography is possible or understanding what can be planned vs. that which needs to be “done in the field.”