video diary

Final piece

After thinking about making a book, i thought about printing out 3 large images (digital) along side them but after thinking and getting my book printed I realised that it would be distracting. The images in the book are colour and black and white 35/120mm film and the images that would be printed would be digital. Although I am extremely pleased with these images having both film and digital shows two different versions of events as one load of images have been edited to fit in with the theme and the other are natural. 

I had my book made in Boots as I realised that they did their 1 hour service there, I was integrated with the idea of making the book myself making it more personal but i also wanted the book to look professional. The images are still in the same format of letter on the left and the images are on the right so the first thing they see is the journal entries. 

Website

I updated my portfolio, I made myself a website on Wix. it was quite easy to do once I got the hang of it. In it i have included film, portraits, street and nature photography.

I have used different ways of laying them out as some images are bigger than others and look better when in a slide show. The main page is just a collection of all the images (ones that I feel show my better skilled edits or strong images on their own)

http://franjackson.wix.com/jacksonphotography

book making

Today I aim to start making my book, I still have to write the ending letter to myself but I can start laying out the pages to get an idea of how many pages I am going to need.

I am aiming to have this finished by Thursday but as I have never used InDesign before it is going to hard for me. I have the basics down and am starting to get the hang of it. I like the way it is shaping up but I want the book to be black or grey so I will have to learn how to do that tonight. I am still sticking to the images on the right hand side as they are the first thing that is to be seen and the writing on the left hand side.

Contests

I aim to enter 5 contests, 3 with a prize and 2 for exposure. I found a site that lists individual contests in an array of themes, from architecture to photos of the year. Most of these are free and you have to sign up but it does not take more than 20 minutes to create a profile (or you can sign in with Facebook)

https://www.photocontestinsider.com/ 

http://www.viewbug.com/ <<entered 2 today.

Some of the competitions have prizes such as camera bodies and some up to £3000. I have already entered 2 today and one has a grand prize of £3000.

Updating cv

Updated my cv to include more work experience, will add the lighting workshop as I worked as art director for the shoot.

new cv

I will also update my portfolio images and the images on my cv.

more notes

These are the notes that I have been taking every other day/week, I think they should go on the left hand side of the book and an image on the right. Some of them are just thoughts that have flickered in and out of my mind all day and some one them are detailed journal entries describing my day and how I have felt. I still aim to print and destroy a copy of the letter to myself and possibly write a reply so the book will start with depressions letter to me and I will write a reply back and this will be the last page of the book. 

I aim to also include image of myself that others have taken on nights out to show that I am not just one person i have 2 halves and each has their own life.