Rough Draft Book
These aren't in order but here is the rough draft of my book minus the final page and the title and cover pages.
Rough Draft
I decided my version of Rapunzel is going to be called Rattypunzel. It is about a girl with really long hair and she never wants to comb it. Her mom sends her to her room and won't let her come out until she combs it and still Rattypunzel refuses.
These are my first two drafts of some spreads. I decided to use yarn as her hair because it has a not smooth texture and I can do lots of different stuff with it. I used magazine pictures as my base and added a few embellishments to make the images seem more realistic.
My book will probably be a 9x7 book and the first spread will be just a right side page. It is the page where we are first introducing Rattypunzel. I wanted this to take up most of the page so that I can start with a big image and then move to a smaller one. I haven't figured out what do do for my typography yet so I'm still brainstorming that one.
The second spread is a full spread and is when Rattypunzel is in her room and refuses to comb her hair. Her mom keeps thinking if enough time passes that she will surely comb her hair so she can come out of her room. The flowers kind of go with the wallpaper in the image but they add a little depth to the page. The ribbon is suppose to act like a valance on a window.
These are my first two drafts of some spreads. I decided to use yarn as her hair because it has a not smooth texture and I can do lots of different stuff with it. I used magazine pictures as my base and added a few embellishments to make the images seem more realistic.
My book will probably be a 9x7 book and the first spread will be just a right side page. It is the page where we are first introducing Rattypunzel. I wanted this to take up most of the page so that I can start with a big image and then move to a smaller one. I haven't figured out what do do for my typography yet so I'm still brainstorming that one.
The second spread is a full spread and is when Rattypunzel is in her room and refuses to comb her hair. Her mom keeps thinking if enough time passes that she will surely comb her hair so she can come out of her room. The flowers kind of go with the wallpaper in the image but they add a little depth to the page. The ribbon is suppose to act like a valance on a window.
Research
Working on this project I have done a lot of different types of research. I first started out looking online and reading different versions of the story Rapunzel. Once I felt like I had a pretty good idea about the story I started to look at different types of collages. I really like the idea of a fabric book because I think it would look really clean and nice but at the same time if done right the other types can look really good as well. I kind of noticed that the more creative you are with the collage the more it grabs your attention. I also looked at various mediums to use in the collage.
With my group we looked at the different ways you can layout a book and how you can pace it so your viewer doesn't get bored. In one of the books we looked at(pictured below) it was very simple and clean and relied mostly on typography. When we compared it to the other book it had a lot more white space than the other book. We noticed that it is a nice break to change scale of images. When you have a lot of type a page with a big full frame image gives the viewer a break. We also noticed that hierarchy is once again a huge asset in making a spread look good. The last two pictures compare the text to image ratio in the two books. We sketched a solid square to represent an image and either lines or an empty box to represent type. We also used different types of dots to compared the pacing of majority type, image or if the spread was balanced.
With my group we looked at the different ways you can layout a book and how you can pace it so your viewer doesn't get bored. In one of the books we looked at(pictured below) it was very simple and clean and relied mostly on typography. When we compared it to the other book it had a lot more white space than the other book. We noticed that it is a nice break to change scale of images. When you have a lot of type a page with a big full frame image gives the viewer a break. We also noticed that hierarchy is once again a huge asset in making a spread look good. The last two pictures compare the text to image ratio in the two books. We sketched a solid square to represent an image and either lines or an empty box to represent type. We also used different types of dots to compared the pacing of majority type, image or if the spread was balanced.
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