Photography

This is a good example of what we want in the way of composition when we do the photography for everyones work. A birds eye view shot and also a diagonal shot which shows the range of a project.

Photography set Up.

Mark and I were talking today about the best way to shoot the 'individual pages' work so we didn't have to change to much in between the different styles and layouts. We thought that a corner set up a bit like the images below would make it so that we wouldn't have to change the background all the time.

Layout skills

Think the colours and layout are very interesting in this south american publication. The bright type over picture looks wicked cool.

Zany

He overlapping colours create a complex and interesting shape. Could take inspiration from this to the yearbook design.

Big Letters

This is looks good. I like how the illustration is secondary to the huge 'K'. Hierarchy gone wild.

Layout

I think the way how the photos are cut up make the page more exciting and could work within the year book.

Colour

Simple

I really like the simplicity of this cover. I could use as inspiration for my projects using book covers. Solid cover, type in middle. Boom.

BIG TYPE LOOKS COOL.

Colour Swatch

Cool idea for the yearbook. Shoing colours used in an image like this...

You could pick up the main colours in the design and put them underneath to show the relationship between colours.

Colour Vs. Black

Still think that black should be used within the design on the yearbook. I thin kit will help colours pop out even more like this. Just imagine spot UV on black leading on to a really beautifully bright colour.

Colour

Pages of vivid colour really make a publication stand out. Something to consider when producing the yearbook.

Showcase

An Idea for show case was to have a piece of everyones work up together placed so they don't line up a bit like the image below.

Lighting

I found an article on Martin Schoeller, he talks about his career etc. But there was an interesting section on his technique  for doing the portraits.(Full article avialable HERE)


'I use a medium format camera that takes roll film. I light them with these light banks. Fluorescent light. Basically they look like fluorescent light bulbs but their color temperature is daylight color temperature. They’re called Kino Flos. They’re mainly used in the film industry, because it’s not a strobe light, so it’s not actually that bright. I mean they’re bright to look at because they’re much brighter than the flashing strobe obviously. But they’re for a very shallow depth of field and a very narrow depth of field which kind of also emphasizes what I’m trying to do with bringing out the eyes and the lips, where most of the expression in a person’s face is all about the eyes and the lips. I try to get my focus right so the eyes and the lips are the focus. Everything falls away so quickly because of the shallow depth of field. Everything else becomes secondary. So not only am I focusing on just the face, I’m even concentrating it more by having everything else look like it’s out of focus.'


ALso I found a film on YouTube that shows his set up. LINK

and Kevin Bacon.

Martin Schoeller's

Martin Schoeller's portrait photography is something simlilar on how we want the portaits to be like. Here are some famous examples.