Extended Practice Brief #3: [2nd Publication Draft + Email]

After doing the first draft for Adeline's publication we had a meet up about a month ago as I explained to her what I did for the publication, she mentioned that she doesn't feel confident about making books herself so she's giving me freedom to do what I want on it, which personally is quite hard as I also want her input as to how she wants it designed, e.g. layout. I also asked if she'd preferred text on it or if she has a rationale for it, but she explained she'd rather have it just pictures, which was fair enough as it is should focus on the pictures themselves. However, she did mention that she want to edit some of the pictures.

We didn't really meet up for a while since she's busy with her dissertation and other events, however I did make a second draft of the publication. Looking back at the publication I saw a lot of things that I didn't really think was appropriate anymore:

• It's too chaotic 
• Cropping pictures makes it really distracting and it's quite unnecessary. 
• The cover page looks too much – could be simpler

In the second draft, I made everything cleaner and less distracting. I also changed the font I used for the title to Roboto as I felt it was a more appropriate and approachable sans serif font as opposed to the previous one which looks a bit corporate. 

• Made the title cleaner with a full bleed image – title in white 'masking' the image; effective as its simple and doesn't take away the focus from the image. 
• Simplified the layouts of the images.
• Gave the images a sense of direction and story from the title page to the end page – images seem continuous, basing it on how she would've taken the pictures as she was walking along Sincheon during the festival. 
• I've decided to pick important and more enticing photos as I thought it would be more fitting and also to showcase her photography the best (however, I'll have to check with Adeline since it is her photos and she has better view and understanding of them that she can pick whether she wants all of them to be included in the end or pick which ones she thinks are the best. 

Thoughts & Reflection:

I've emailed Adeline the second draft but I've also assured her that we can continue it after she did her dissertation, so she'll have an idea of what I'm thinking of doing for the publication now. My plan is hopefully by the end of this month I'll be able to finish her brief and publication as she finishes her dissertation as well so we'll have more time to discuss in detail.