For my book project, I chose the poem Night Music. When I read this poem, I noticed it contained a lot of descriptive language that conjured up images in my head. The poem was also set in the past tense, and sounded as though it was telling a story. This is where I got the idea of making a photo album. Originally, I decided to make it a hard cover novel, but I abandoned that idea quickly.
I read the poem over and divided it into 8 sections. Each section painted its own picture, and I decided to put each picture on a Polaroid, since I’ve always like the Polaroid format for some reason. Using Google Images, I looked for stock pictures that I felt would work as a foundation for creating an image to describe each section of the poem I took.
I used several techniques in Photoshop, including blur filters, light overlays, blending images together (like on the last photo especially). I found black Illustration board in my room after trying to think of what to use for the pages for over a week, and decided to go with it. The cover was made in Illustrator (the image was edited in Photoshop) and the text on everything was first applied in Photoshop, then all the pictures were placed in Illustrator so that it would come out cleanly and so that all would print on the same page and save credits and paper. I then pasted all the images down on their respective pages with rubber cement. The resulting book was a 6”x6” book of 8 pages and 2 cover pieces. I couldn’t find something sharp enough to punch the holes so I could put wire in and bind it, so it isn’t bound at the moment.
