After some thought about the photography of our 'How to' Photographs which were shot at home, we have decided that for these particular photo's we needed to shoot them in the photography studio where we could hire out appropriate lighting etc.
As we initially did the step by step photo's as we were actually making the crafts, it made doing step by step pictures easier. In order to do this now, we had to recreate each step. We also decided that it was unnecessary for some of the crafts to have a step by step, and that these crafts could be more of an idea suggestion than a 'this is how you make..."
The photo shoot went well in the end and we now have some better quality images to work with.
Before the shoot we had a tutorial with Brian Hindmarch which was helpful in the way that he gave us a completely different perspective on the brief along with some constructive feedback. He got us into thinking and considering things about the design of the project in ways which we had not considered before.
The main issues which we brought up with him were concerning format. Our original intention was for the design to be a book, but with the amount of crafts we had we felt that it was not going to be as large as we first thought.
Brian made us consider things like words and the book being more hand crafter 'it is what it is.' The idea of the book being more hand crafted is something we were really interested in doing from the beginning because it just seemed to make sense. But then there are other things to consider like distribution and mass production, which we feel could be an important part. And then there is the idea of it being more of a one-off, something that you'd find at a book fair.
Definite decisions are still to be made.
We have now moved onto the idea of a series of smaller books. We have categorised our crafts so far and have come up with a list of different books:
Dreamcatchers
Restoration
Fabric
Obsession
Re-purposing
Other than crafts we want the books to feature interesting photography and interactive elements. It will have a friendly colloquial language, craft how to's and craft suggestions, suggestions on how to cheer up a friend or draw a silly picture. Thoughtful quotes concerning our disposable society.
The idea of obsession reflects the obsession with crafts, the generosity, the collection of items other people deem as rubbish, one mans treasure is anothers mans gold.
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