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Book Cover Creation

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Today I will show to you my step-by-step process of creation the cover to my Chapbook. In my previous post I showed my idea of book about Mavka. I see that character as a strong girl with wild personality, but full hard of kindness, as a soul of wild nature with her own values. I had highlight the main factors and description with I would like to describe through my cover book, and there it is: - tradition  - something secret, a sense of secrecy - loneliness - Reflection of the green colour in the name and overall colour (as it is one of the main symbols of story) So next I will go to the Canva to create my design to the book.  Here I choose my format "Journal" (as it is the most closer format to my book witch I need) with size 8.5 x 11 Next, I have a white list and some ideas of design on the left: First of all, I choose the main colours of my cover, which is dark green, dark grey and gold (I also left dark red in case of some details) : For my main background colour I choos

Chapbook: Planing

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What is your final idea? Please explain in two sentences the theme and the form your writing will take. My final idea is a mythological story about old cultural legend of Mavka, who is soul of the forest and her life, thoughts, her real face and fear of people. There is period of 17th century. Finally she find a man, who she is interested in. She is observe of him with a purpose of find a friend, but she is slowly gets to know the world of people.  Slavic mythology 1. Considering the form, how do you intend to layout your book pages? The form of chapbook will be a story with form of mythology and the world of magic and explanations from the view of my min character. 2. How many pages do you expect there will be? 25-35 pages 3. Are you going to use images? Are these your own images (illustrations/photographs) or copyright free images that you will source? Yes, I have a plan to use my illustration for my chapbook.  4. What is the plan of your time and how much you will need to spend on t

Creating a Chapbook: Initial ideas

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Introduction to the project My next project in this Second term is Chapbook, where I should to create and write my own mini-book and design to that book. I have a plane made a research of examples of others chapbooks and authors, write a step-by-step plan, analyse my target audience to the future chapbook and write authors who inspired me to my work. Thus, my Chapbook will be up to 40 pages, with some of my photography or illustrations. First of all, there is important to understand what is chapbook and what format could be.  "were inexpensive, small, paper-covered booklets that were produced for a newly literate, primarily working class population that could not afford books."  (Creechan, 2017). CHAPBOOKS: LITERATURE OF THE STREETS According to Creechan there is exist lots of ideas what to write in the chapbook, there is could be songs, ballads, short novels, stories, poems and other topics. Nowadays people are still reading chapbook especially popular short  books for child

Creative Writing: Writing Exercise One

 Emotion: joy  Person who find a meaning of happiness in the people who in our life.  There is so significant to choose our people, there is about our morning, there about our thought before sleep, there is about with who we are going to have a dinner in our favorite restaurant. I gees is it nothing wrong to say bye to people with who we can`t feel peace, connect and happiness and be connected with a people who we love. Joy is also about our choices. Last year I had job interview with Amber, few weeks after we start work together, we had so much time to spend and talk, we begin to trust each other and this Christmas we spend together. Now I feel joy to chose this person in my life.

Self study: Photography shoot for photo project "London portrait"

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I had a lot of thoughts about my old photography project idea and finally I deсided to re-take my shooting because I wasn't so pleased with my previous work. So! Today I will show you proses of practical work in my New Photography project. In my post about Photography Research I mentioned about Hellen Levitt, who is famous for her documentary Street Style photography and that inspired me to idea to make a portrait street photography.   I used to live in London some time before Leicester and I feel this Citi really close to my personality and especially people who are so different and so beautiful. I had two days in this wonderful city where I was walking a lot. On the end of the day I managed to visit Camden Town, Islington and Borough market. There is some of my favourite place in London where I can feel lots of emotions and London vibes. So there is result which I got: For all of this shooting I used my old camera Nikon D3000 and it was on the last weekend around morning and afte

Photography Research: A man Best Friend

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 In this post I would like to write research about my photography  project . Moreover, as I plan to create London street style photography project there is important to read other photographers works and considerate main codes and narratives of those works.  My photo project is about people on the streets who are reflect face of London,I would love to show emotions, feelings and beauty in simple things. The main point there is a lot of different and colourful details which connect to each other to full picture and create the context.  “Street style started as something authentic, it still has some of that feel to it even though situations might be staged, or at least more planned than before. A lot of it is in the technical details: pictures taken outside, in natural light, will always look more authentic than those shot in a studio.”  (Søren, 2020) I would love to talk  about work of Jill Freedman "A man Best Friend" showed us a picture of a   man sits with a pet chimpanzee