Cover Story

Assignment Title: “Cover Story”

 BAPH103 Photographic Genres

Student work required for this assignment:

• You will produce 2 photographic images to illustrate the passage(s) of your choice from the book.

Your photographs will be:

• Either black & white or colour, shot digitally and presented as high quality prints.

• The print size will be 15.5” x 10” (this is the exact ratio of a Penguin book cover)

• The two submitted final prints must come from different shoots/set-ups and paying homage to two different genres.

• You must also produce actual book sized copies of your two final images for the final crit/evaluation/mini exhibition. These actual sized prints must include the author and title in the same font as the Penguin Modern Classic that you have chosen.

It states clearly in the brief that the book cover’s should be visual representations of two passages of the story. My book is, PG Wodehouse’s ‘The Crime Wave at Blandings’. Its a short story which follows the life in the day of Lord Emsworth, an interesting character, who simply likes to be left to his study to read his books or enjoy his rose gardens. These are two of my favourite shots from my initial shoot, I wanted to capture this visual idea of Emsworth’s personal library to capture the intimacy described in the story, I wanted my cover to elude this sense of privacy, a simplistic image with a shallow depth of field, I feel has really allowed me to achieve this.

These are my two favourite and I feel my most successful shots, aesthetically and compositionally. I shot both images with the intention of a potential book cover in mind, having negative space in order for text to be placed.

I really like both these shots, and still have other from the shoot to edit and play around with.

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