21.3.20

Thames Valley meeting 21.3.20

This meeting scheduled was held remotely via Zoom due to Covid19 Virus. I wondered how we would manage via zoom for at least 4 hours but it was productive time and passed quickly.

The session was facilitated by OCA Tutor Jayne Taylor. There were 13 of us, including some who can’t normally attend because of geography or Children.

This was the padlet that we posted to before the meeting and then added to afterwards (https://oca.padlet.org/jonathan515050/4wmpbd8z5v9p)

Archived padlet: https://nkssite5.photo.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/padlet-archived-1.pdf

In terms of my work

I shared that I had been working on a community project for assignment 1 which halted a couple of weeks ago because of Covid 19 and no longer having access to the people. I have dithered whether to stop, move on and return to the work later or start afresh. Generally my peers suggested moving on, and we talked about new ways in the current circumstances that I could capture community engagement (Traces of people, disruption in the community, changes in the community, barriers to engaging with the community).

My takeaways:

As usual I learnt a lot by peer sharing both their work and ideas as well as my own.

When editing consider whether weaker images dilute the strongest images
Check the narrative is clear
I learnt a lot about book making:
When placing images consider the white space around them, have more space at the bottom of the page than the top.
Consider making the space around images irregular throughout the book
Don’t use more than 80% black font
Leave most of the text until the end so that the viewers can engage with the images first.
Use some full page “full bleed” images
Explore the Cartesian perspective and photography: A separation between what’s inside and outside (see John Hall level 3 OCA)
Don’t necessarily conform to a linear narrative
That “Zine” is a type of magazine