Picture Book | Layout

Having sketched out a couple of storyboards, I wanted to plan out how they would transfer across the pages exactly. It's important that I plan this stage, as I made errors during the last book-based project that set me back!

Once I have sorted out these technical aspects, I can move on to generating the artwork for the number of pages required, and begin assembling.

I did a few really quick book mock-ups with the correct number of pages. In this example, I folded 4 lots of A5 paper (not to scale) which made around 16 pages, however after setting aside the front cover, and the inside page, I realised that content page #1 began by itself.

This completely offset the double page plans I had storyboarded. So I had to re-jig the ordering of the content so that they fell on the correct sides of the book (left or right).

Here's a fairly basic plan of the page layout, it's similar to how InDesign sets out pages so that's helpful. I had to add in an extra page of content so that the end half of the book also had an inside cover.

I think that everything with this is okay so far, however I may test a couple of alternatives as a back up before I get feedback from class. I may even try drawing out these pages in a more refined manner to see if they actually work in practice or not.

CONCLUSION FOR LAYOUT:

9 pieces of paper used in total

Front and back cover

2 inside pages

14 pages of illustrated content (thereabouts)