Year Book Meeting three- we have ourselves a title'

Today's meeting was just a clarification on things we had already discussed we showed the progress we had made on the instillation ideas and gave them the images we had from students work as well as the test shots from Dan Ross. We discussed possible colour's that we wanted to use and showed them a colour chart that Ellie had produced, we made a decision to use green's and greys as well as the blue from the background of Dan Ross's images.

We also agreed on a paper stock for the book Regency Satin - which in layman's terms means its a bit glossy but not too glossy. We also made the decision to make the title out of laser cut cardboard glued together in layers as not only would it be the least time consuming option but we felt that it would give a greater impact to the space- we will start this process over the Easter break so as to allow enough time on the laser cutter. my main task for this week is getting people inductions on the laser cutter who haven't had them including myself, booking out as much time on the laser cutter as possible and to continue getting images and copy from everyone as well as booking photography studio and making sure everyone including Dan is available at that time .

Year Book Meeting two

In today's meeting we discussed the layout of the book and made some decisions,

-There will be 64 pages in the book 

- spare pages will be for quotes pages (not sure about having so many pages for quotes)

- centre spread

- the possibility of having a gate fold for the cover image ( the front cover will fold out on both sides so their could be a 4 page shot of the instillation.)

After getting the thumbs up for the typography instillation from the rest of the group we again discussed it with the graphics boys who had already gotten a quote from wood work about the costings, however they had got the price of making the word interdisciplinary out of wood which in the size we were talking about would cost around £160 - given the fact that we don't even know how many letters will be in the title of the show as this stage, this price did put us off somewhat as we will have to fund raise for the wood and as of yet the fundraising team haven't come up with any solid ideas. We talked about the possibility of making it out of cardboard in order to save money - i think that using cardboard could be the better option if we want the making of it to be a group effort - it will be easier to get everyone involved.- anyway we decided to re-visit this idea at a later date when we have actually decided on a name for the show, which we have a meeting about early next week so once we have decided on an name for the show, we will do a mock up of it as an instillation to show at the next meeting. 

Dan and Adam brought mock up layouts for the book using the imagery from last years book, their was quite a selection - and we picked out the ones that we liked the most. 

There where two very different styles, one was very structured and i thought very samey, whilst the other's layout changed from page to page - we all opted for the less structured one and they agreed to bring us more development on these layouts for the next meeting.

I have also arranged to have a test shot photo shoot with Dan Ross so we could try out possible ideas for the profile pages- after seeing the layouts of the pages and realising how small they actually are - we may have to change our initial idea as they are too small for us to covey our practices within. 

My to do list for the next meeting- Get a sample of images from three students, get their profile shot taken, get them to write some copy to go onto their test page, get everyone to decide on a title for the show, mock up that title to covey our own ideas of how it should look.