Tammy has emailed me her answers to my research questions. Rhonda Prast was away, but is back now, and emailed me her answers as well. I spoke with Marcia Prouse on the phone for over an hour about all things Arrow Rock and book related. Dick van Halsema just got back to me and said he’d be willing to do an interview.
I have written the Clay captions, pulling a lot from the excess in my story (it can only be 900 words max, and it was around 1600). Shane has edited the story and sent it to the copyeditors.
I have finished designing everything Shane has dropped on the server.
We have just received our first design review from Rita and Joy, and they seem to generally like what we’re doing (huge sigh of relief). I took the design notes Abby received from Rita and Joy and have attempted to apply them to the spreads I already have designed. There is still some question as to how we will give credit to the photographers and text editors. They said our current idea was too confusing (it used to be under the header) because sometimes it says simply ‘by’ Jane Doe (when she wrote and shot it), sometimes it says ‘text by’ Jane Doe and photographs by ‘Jack Smith’ and sometimes it just says ‘text by’ Jane Doe (when the photographs are taken by no one in particular. Photo credits were under individual photos.) The solution for consistency that Rita and Joy came up with was to put the text credit at the end of the text and the photo credit under the dominant photo. The problem I see with that is that the text credit is much more visible than the photo credit, and it may be easy to mistake the text writer for the photographer. One possible solution I’ve offered to this is to specifically say ‘text by’ instead of just ‘by’ at the end of the body of text. But I still don’t like giving more presence to the text writer than to the photographer – doesn’t seem fair, especially since this is a photo book. Of course, if we can’t come up with a better solution, I’ll be alright with it. After all, the photographers mostly have or ‘should’ have written their own stories.
I began to play with the 10% curve Perry told Abby I should put on my pictures to meet their press standards, since their blacks tend to block up more than an RGB printer. I’ve sent them a set of 9 images to print as proofs with and without Perry’s curve so we can see what it does. I will review them when I’m back in Missouri to defend.
I’ve also been writing up my master’s project. It currently stands at 45 pages. I reflect a lot on what we did right and what we did wrong. I’m hoping to make it as much a learning tool as it is about the process itself. I currently have 36 appendices. I don’t know if that’s a lot or not. I wanted to be as thorough as possible with the appendices for the same reason - I’m trying to make it as much of a guide for the next potential book editor as simply my master’s project. So I’ve included things like the arrow rock history summary that I think Jason Johns wrote up for Rita, that we handed out to the class as a reference. Just thought it was an important point early on in the project that we gave out history notes to the class, even if it wasn’t Abby or I who did that work. Similarly, I’ve included a lot of email communication that we had, that I think shows the process we went through, even if it wasn’t always 100% related to me.
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