Editor as Author

In this workshop the aim was to create a visual narrative of a story from the newspaper of that day only through the use of found imagery from that newspaper. We had the option to photocopy the pictures which meant we were able to enlarge, minimise and edit the colour of the image. Another main factor in the brief of this project is that we to do it in pairs.

I partnered up with Roslyn and together reading through the Daily Mail we decided on the story 'How French women stay fabulous after 50' because looking at the imagery in the book we knew we could communicate the idea of the article, how looking old is not right and plastic surgery is the right thing to do which means you could look just like the glamorous Parisians.

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The ways we communicated the story was through colour. The colour scheme through out the book is blue, white (monochrome) and red to help narrate that this is about Parisian women surgery's.

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We also used the colour red to convey that it is bad to look old we had image of older women which we photocopied red to help convey this.

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On this page we have narrated a wedding going along the lines of the article saying that surgery will make them more beautiful. meaning it will give the viewer what they stereotypically want. We were inspired by Alexander Egger's photo book 'Maybe I Have Been Looking in The Wrong Places' he used the placement of the image on the page to create a visual narrative.

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We also cut out image from different faces and mixed them up to show how you can choose what you look like with cosmetic surgery. We were inspired by the Dadaist to create this very surreal and comic take on plastic surgery. The Dadaist were known for make collages that were tongue and cheek at the start of the last century.

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Through looking at the artist Anouk Kruithof who create the photo book 'Happy Birthday to You' In this book Kruithof used flaps and 3D elements to create his narrative. I was inspired by him so on the first double page spread I made so the viewer could interact with image (pulling back the flaps of the image to show multiples of the same plastic surgified women but in a different colour showing how many Parisian women do it).