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Photobook Marketing

The book combines first person narration and landscape photos giving the idea of a very personal journey Its compact size allows it to take it everywhere; the Japanese stitching technique give the book a bespoke look;

"My mind travels away. I grab the handle and board the train; I look at the station getting distand... I can feel the breeze, my hair carresses my forehead; my thouhts travel away, before falling like an hourglass back to earth again."

    Available to pre-order now ! Using PayPal http://lav2caprturephotographyofficial.tictail.com/…/the-br…

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As you can see from this post I have started working on marketing the book

While easter, I took a small call; I asked from a very very good friend of mine to pass the book in a few bookshops in Greece; as far I can tell I had a small sucess as somebody of them are actually interested of my photobook;

As for the POP-UP shop on May , we decided to keep the name Enigma 31 which is the same as the one we had during our exhibition. Progress is not easy to be made is being made day by day; the tasks left to complete before the pop up are

1 Make a pricelist

2 Print copies to make a number of stock enough for four days

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3 Use Marketing as much as you can

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Website and Online shop Update

 Well, that was it the online shop is now running with three products available including The Brighton Xperience Photobook and two Prints;

As far as the website is concerned everything is running smoothly sor far; An observation was made a couple of days ago; remember I told you thtat I would change the theme to Brilliant? That did not work The whole lay out was ruined and the presentation of the content was not what I was expecting; so I retuned to minimatica. where all the links and content were properly put;

 We are onlythree weeks away from the Pop up show for the photobooks and that means more work needs to be done; I tried a couple of other themes given by Wordpress itself  but non of them works as good the minimatica provided by Paula Roush.

Here is the link to the online shop ! don’t forget to visit! http://lav2caprturephotographyofficial.tictail.com/

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Self Publishing Photobook Update part 2

The recycled paper gives to the sense of touching, a unique feeling as to the physicality of the book; Its thickness adds something more something that was not present in the first dummy book that was submitted for assessment a few weeks back before Easter. About a week before Easter, Alejandro came by and gave us his personal feedback on the dummys; One of the tasks he set on that day was to put us evaluate other's work. in a simple words; we had to provide feedback to other people's work. I must admit that I did not expect my feedback paper so full of positive feedbacks;

"Hand written thoughts accompanying the images give it a nice touch and makes it more personal"

 "First person works with the book makes the book more personal"

" Like the 1st person approach as it is your journey I also like the position of the text; Maybe you should change the typography"

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self-publishing photobook

Since the last week some elemental progress has been made; 1st of all the tictail shop is ready to use I finished setting the paypal account and whilst this was happening; my cousins came to visit and suddenly I found myself working with two photobooks. Paula said that the tictail shop could also be used for prints selling... 

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Self Publishing Photobook Update

These are scanned records from my work book for the module of the headline;

 Ithink that this will explain many things.

I chose to magnify by 400% the letters in the first picture and then I decreased them to 200%  to see if in a way could actually overlay the letters and the images but that was not possible.

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Dummy Book Update

With the subission week for the dummy book in the self publishing module coming up everybody works in high fever in order to get the last few remaining things to their place. In the1st dummy book themed; the Brighton Xperience was a landscape orientation book printed on an A4 paper full bleed.

Paula asked me to review a few key things and if possible also to change them;

here is the list:

1 Remove the title from the front page.

2 Use the correct sizing for the paper ( A4 Landscape ).

3 Fill both the Recto and the Verso ( Right and Left of the page ).

4 Re-write the text on the colophone in 1st person.

5 Reduce to size 10 ( Font size ).

6 Reduce the opacity of a photo.

7 Do not be afraid to zoom in.

8 Show the feelings of this trip not the place as it is.

9Combine cut outs and scanned things that match.

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This is an Update for the photobook publishing project;

 The photo included is a second thought for the colophone after Paula’s suggestion . I have separated the image in four peices , that each of them is equall. on the left hand side it reads “Scatter a few photos”

 there is a small correction on the right hand side that reads” may act” and also possibly a note that will read “ layout and design by...n

 Again this is nothing definitive is just a small thought.

  The second image represents an alternative cover; Paula also suggested that I should include hand written peices of text

Unfortunately I can not write caligraphically and therefore it would ruin the “image” of the book before it is even finished.

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Seemester 2

The second semester is less practical than the 1st one for the main reason that there is no exhibition;

 In the second semester we have the previous semester’s moduleprofessional practice and promotion, which practically involves the creation of a website; in relation to that module comes the photobook publishing, which allows us to create a small zine, making our way to the phootography business.

 Then the collaborative projects module comes which the main goal is to collaborate with other disciplines. such as music game design and photography;

 I chose to collaborate with the game design department, following that way another passion of mine; In the collaboration module, we have been tasked to create all the game assetsand the means of publications, make corrections and share our opinion. and that is all we know so far.

 Now to the more intriguing part of the second semester;

 The photobook self publication. The purpose of this module is to see how an artist can produce something using “found” pictures ( unknown artistv) or already pictures taken by the artist for a previous work. Today the first frimday of the second semester we are to research the “templates” to elegantly put it and get inspired to create a customisable and affordable book for May 2017; we are also to use a workbook t record the creation progress. Stay tuned my friends for more information.

P.S. We must create at least 3 versions;

1 Dummy version

2 Normal version

3 Finished version