Summary, Reflection and Evaluation
I all in all was fairly happy with the turn out of my book. Certain pages I feel still need a lot of work done to them and maybe even heavily reworked. However the ones that I fuly finished I was quite happy with the layout and colour designs. I do regret not being able to fill it with my own photography more, as such a lot of the photography had to be taken from old books lying around the house and the odd google search. Ideally though this would not have been the case, there is in fact one of the original 'Singl-en' tenements left standing in Glasgows Gorbals area at the start of this project I had envisioned going there in order to get most of the structural photography with maybe a couple of mock ups of friends arranged as I wanted to then drop in on top of one another. As the country is in lock-down, this wasn't possible. I still feel I did not to bad a job with what I had to use at my disposal.
I do wonder whether it maybe would have been made easier/better if I had actually just drawn it all, from the room, to the people, to the furniture but this would have taken away from the reason I chose this particular poem for. I chose this poem because, it gives a very real sense of what living in a 'Singl-en' tenement would have been like for hundreds of Glasgow families, albeit it creates that sense through a comical manner but still informs us of the reality. This is why I wanted photography to play a part in the imagery. I wanted to build images showing the reality of it all but at the same time comically remind the reader that it is something we can laugh at and enjoy by dropping in the bright and fun wallpapers and designs, that are so out of place in their settings. So in hindsight I'm glad I didn't try to draw it all, I think the photographic element en captures what it is I wanted it to.
I do wonder about the text. I never spent any great time on the text and in certain places I'm sure it shows. However, I felt it probably wasn't the point of the project to have wonderfully worked text the whole way through and where it does work it works quite well. I just feel that maybe at the points it doesn't work it would have been simpler to remove the illustrated version and just leave a footnote on the page of what the text was to be for that page. Still, I didn't and as I say I hope it wasn't a large part of what I was meant to be doing.
The one thing I am dissapointed in was my failing work ethic. At the beginning of the project when we were made slightly aware of the fact that Covid may in some way disrupt the teaching ter, I largely shrugged it off. I thought that even if it were to, my work would not be made to suffer because of it. For the first couple of weeks after the lock down this was likely the case but in the last week or two, work began to slow. I hadn't seen the university building for a month and began to lose sight of what it was I was doing or why I was doing. I'm sure I wasn't alone in this. Unfortunately, I feel some of my work likely did suffer because of it. the longer I put off completing my work the less I wanted to and the last few things I worked on, I feel, show this wavering ethic. In particular the 'Chorus Page', for this I largely up-cycled a print I made last year and reworked the design a bit in order to have it fit. Whilst I feel it does fit, it is also quite obviously in my opinion the last page I planned and made in the book.
All this said I did get the project completed and am glad of that, particularly after the last term which I really struggled with. I'm not happy with all of it but in it's entirety I'm not totally upset by it. It would have been nice to get in to Uni in order to actually print a couple of these, which I had planned to do through Screen printing but it's not the end of the world and it did allow me to get far more familiar with how to digitally plan for a print on Photoshop, a skill I have wanted to pivk up fro quite some time.
To add to this. I would also like to point out here that all the files I have created have been at A4, this is not necessarily the size I would've worked at if I had more choices, if still at uni I would've had the opportunity to do this a lot larger. Working in the space I have and only with an A4 printer and no lightbox I was some what restricted in this. All I will say is it would likely have been printed landscape at A3 possibly even slightly larger.
I do wonder whether it maybe would have been made easier/better if I had actually just drawn it all, from the room, to the people, to the furniture but this would have taken away from the reason I chose this particular poem for. I chose this poem because, it gives a very real sense of what living in a 'Singl-en' tenement would have been like for hundreds of Glasgow families, albeit it creates that sense through a comical manner but still informs us of the reality. This is why I wanted photography to play a part in the imagery. I wanted to build images showing the reality of it all but at the same time comically remind the reader that it is something we can laugh at and enjoy by dropping in the bright and fun wallpapers and designs, that are so out of place in their settings. So in hindsight I'm glad I didn't try to draw it all, I think the photographic element en captures what it is I wanted it to.
I do wonder about the text. I never spent any great time on the text and in certain places I'm sure it shows. However, I felt it probably wasn't the point of the project to have wonderfully worked text the whole way through and where it does work it works quite well. I just feel that maybe at the points it doesn't work it would have been simpler to remove the illustrated version and just leave a footnote on the page of what the text was to be for that page. Still, I didn't and as I say I hope it wasn't a large part of what I was meant to be doing.
The one thing I am dissapointed in was my failing work ethic. At the beginning of the project when we were made slightly aware of the fact that Covid may in some way disrupt the teaching ter, I largely shrugged it off. I thought that even if it were to, my work would not be made to suffer because of it. For the first couple of weeks after the lock down this was likely the case but in the last week or two, work began to slow. I hadn't seen the university building for a month and began to lose sight of what it was I was doing or why I was doing. I'm sure I wasn't alone in this. Unfortunately, I feel some of my work likely did suffer because of it. the longer I put off completing my work the less I wanted to and the last few things I worked on, I feel, show this wavering ethic. In particular the 'Chorus Page', for this I largely up-cycled a print I made last year and reworked the design a bit in order to have it fit. Whilst I feel it does fit, it is also quite obviously in my opinion the last page I planned and made in the book.
All this said I did get the project completed and am glad of that, particularly after the last term which I really struggled with. I'm not happy with all of it but in it's entirety I'm not totally upset by it. It would have been nice to get in to Uni in order to actually print a couple of these, which I had planned to do through Screen printing but it's not the end of the world and it did allow me to get far more familiar with how to digitally plan for a print on Photoshop, a skill I have wanted to pivk up fro quite some time.
To add to this. I would also like to point out here that all the files I have created have been at A4, this is not necessarily the size I would've worked at if I had more choices, if still at uni I would've had the opportunity to do this a lot larger. Working in the space I have and only with an A4 printer and no lightbox I was some what restricted in this. All I will say is it would likely have been printed landscape at A3 possibly even slightly larger.
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