Book
I have been asked to produce a book that will reflect my experience of the stretch from Headlands to Seal Sands. I thought that a lot of my final work was based around my poppy and war memorial I would address the history of Hartlepool in relation to the war as it has only recently passed the 100th anniversary of the 1st world war outbreak. The book has to be a combination of imagery and text, then sent away to be professionally printed. I produced a 'Dummy' to help me plan my book, this was just scrap paper that was folded into a book shape so I could work out what can go where and also what pages my double page spread would be on.
Cover
The cover I want very realistic, but I want it very plain. So on that note I had the cover in black as I thought this would be an appropriate colour due to the contents on the book, and the only image I wanted to go on the front was a poppy, so this would contrast well against the backdrop. I only wanted to state the chosen area where I wanted to dedicate my book to be the title (Headland). In relation I don't think it makes that much sense now, maybe Hartlepool would of been better fitting, or the subject matter been a more convenient title, but I have a sub title on the front page that helps inform the reader what sort of information is present inside as links to the war but the book is not exactly about the war but the more on the bombardment of Hartlepool. I think the cover loosely relates to the contents in the book.
To follow through with realistic look I created the back page black too so wouldn't look out of place. A back of a book is where you would normally find a blurb a short summary about the contents inside the book, I would like my book to have one, just to look professional and realistic.
Pages
After the cover page I left a blank page, I was going to leave two but I thought I would add a short sentence and a complementary image to go with it. I thought my front cover was very vague to what the book was about so I thought it it be better to add the image of the sign saying Bombardment.
Next two pages, on the right hand side is a brief history/fact page of some of the things related to the bombardment. At first I had ordinary text, as I thought it was approiate due to the style of book and what it is about, but I wanted to try different styles, meaning underlining of works, spreading them out, being in caps, italics or bold. This way I was able to sort of highlight main key factors of the line. I sectioned up the short sentence to break up and place around the page.
This is about the first solider who ever died on British soil, he was killed during action of the Bombardment. I have relevant imagery to go with the texts here. I think It is good to have space sometimes on the page but that might just be my taste.
After I have included the Kings involvement he had on trying to uplift the spirits of Hartlepool people. Then Beside the memorial Wall.
These two pages are of the gun and then all the medals that had been awarded to men that fought during the Bombardment of Hartlepool. At first i had sectioned it off into three bits but to add more visual effect to a page full of text, unlike the other in this book I added in the lines to help section each one off even more but it actually makes a much better different in my opinion.
My double page spread is a bit dark, but I think it is a lovely image of the war monument also the fact it's located on the houses that had been badly damaged during the bombardment and were right on the sea front.
These are some of the plaques that were on the wall in the museum, of the soldiers that fought in the battle on the 16th of december, sadly died in action.
Here is a Poem that was on the wall next to the plaque I thought it would be nice to include in my book, I was going to add poems myself but the fact the museum actually had this one up on a plaque next to the memory plaques I thought it would be nice and better to have this one in my book.
I have another statue taken at dark fall, on the other side I have a scanned image I taken. As for the text it was taken from the each side of the statue and quoted.
I contained another poem in my book, with relevant imagery to go with it. The poppies I had underneath "the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918" but then I thought this is more to do with the great war itself and my book has stuck to about the Bombardment of Hartlepool as I was looking into the history of Hartlepool so I changed it. instead of leaving it to just the image itself I decide to add how there is a memorial service each year on the anniversary of the bombardment and included some of the activities they do on the day.
