After the announcement of COVID-19 restrictions, I had to be wary on when to order my photobook and in the end I realised that it won’t come til after the deadline. However, the university did email about the moving the unit hand-in online so I will be annotating point relating to how I wanted my photobook to look like in the physical format.
Firstly, I tweaked all the images in lightroom. I mostly focus on the predominantly blue-lit images to remove the purple hue.
Before importing it all to InDesign I physically created a layout of my photobook using the book I made during our Photobook Making workshop. Keep in mind most pages are combined into one spread for continuity.
i wanted to start off with my little sister and the different colours representing the Philippine flag 
Then introduce my mum 
I then wanted to show my mum and sister one one page and another to show they’re mother and daughter 
Here I wanted to roughly replicate the baro’t saya which I only did for my test shoot as I have forgotten to do it for the final shoot 
During the shoot I had this ‘flower story’ in mind where my sister picks flower to give to my mum to introduce their relationship 
I brought in Filipino snacks and asked my sister to show me how she’d want to use them as props 
Portriats of my mum 
Here I wante dot have a portrait of the two as the finishing page 
This is a layout of the front cover 
These are the film images i took for the front cover 
Film images for the back cover 
This is a layout of the back cover 
Images I did not use
During the editing of the photobook, it was quicker to edit because of my physical copy.
Initially I was going to just going to leave the background plain but decided to add a vintage background to replicate old papers left from the past.
Nina Webster Reflective Journal 