Visual Narratives- Visual Responses to Research

After playing around with a few images from my research I went on to explore the photographs I took whilst on location. I want to portray the bleak atmosphere of the coastlines and develop images that represent the location but also is a nice image to look at. I tried using a grey/blue tone on top of the simple linework to create a feeling of emptiness.

I am relatively happy with the way the images look at this stage and I think I will continue to work within these guides to create my final book. I just need to develop how the images will look in the final book, by playing around with methods and materials I think I have enough time to tweak the images to get a look that I am happy with.

Below are two of the images I produced that I am most happy with, in particular the one on the left of the old cinema. I like the contrast of the black, heavy block in the middle of the page against a very simple surrounding. I also like the really simple use of tone in both the images as I think it achieves the feeling of bleakness that I am looking for. From what I could gather from the feedback session on our initial ideas people liked how the images looked, I just need to tweak a bit more.