Just realised I never copy and pasted the bits I wrote when I couldn't get in.....
Monday 4th December - Today was spent designing the book, and making the 2 ways of presenting the book so I can decide - one is with subject headings, one is each child having a double page of their own photos.
Tuesday 5th December - Today I met with Yang. He talked to me about the portraits, he feels that they should be proper studio portraits.....aaaargh, what a nightmare. There is no way I have time - and the families would not agree anyway most probably. I thought a lot about this, but then also decided that while it is a good idea to do in the future, I actually don't feel that it is an appropriate style for my book right now.
Wednesday 6th December - Again I did some book design, and had a quick flick through all the photos in case I had missed a key image!
Thursday 7th December - More design, and I checked the text today, and the references for it.
Friday 8th December - I finally finished the 2 designs. It had been a suggestion of Barbara's that I do a version with the kids pics all together, but I am favouring the one in sections........
Saturday 9th December - I met with Dave today. He is not sure that the portraits are good enough and suggested that maybe I needed to finish in April....I was devastated. I had never planned to have the portrait section, especially one done by me. It felt like the whole thing would fall apart just because of 2 pages in my book. I spent the afternoon running round the kids and taking more portraits.............I had to use Hou Rui to translate today as Wang Meng was home.....panic definitely set in today. I went to Christine's later on and she helped me look at the portraits before I redesigned the pages they were on and sent them to Dave. By then I felt much better and it seemed like I could still finish.....
Sunday 10th December - I put the finishing touches to the book and started to do a print of a dummy copy. Dave said the new portraits were looking better, hooray. The print looked good......
Tuesday 5th December - Today I met with Yang. He talked to me about the portraits, he feels that they should be proper studio portraits.....aaaargh, what a nightmare. There is no way I have time - and the families would not agree anyway most probably. I thought a lot about this, but then also decided that while it is a good idea to do in the future, I actually don't feel that it is an appropriate style for my book right now.
Wednesday 6th December - Again I did some book design, and had a quick flick through all the photos in case I had missed a key image!
Thursday 7th December - More design, and I checked the text today, and the references for it.
Friday 8th December - I finally finished the 2 designs. It had been a suggestion of Barbara's that I do a version with the kids pics all together, but I am favouring the one in sections........
Saturday 9th December - I met with Dave today. He is not sure that the portraits are good enough and suggested that maybe I needed to finish in April....I was devastated. I had never planned to have the portrait section, especially one done by me. It felt like the whole thing would fall apart just because of 2 pages in my book. I spent the afternoon running round the kids and taking more portraits.............I had to use Hou Rui to translate today as Wang Meng was home.....panic definitely set in today. I went to Christine's later on and she helped me look at the portraits before I redesigned the pages they were on and sent them to Dave. By then I felt much better and it seemed like I could still finish.....
Sunday 10th December - I put the finishing touches to the book and started to do a print of a dummy copy. Dave said the new portraits were looking better, hooray. The print looked good......
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