More Pledge :) 29th August 2008

We had the priviledge of Robert Pledge’s advice for another day today as well as a morning lecture fro him about his work with Contact Press Images and their coverage of the Beijing Olympics.  Spent a lot of time working on my editwhilst heeding his advice yesterday about how to improve the layout and finally at the very end of the day ahd something we were both very happy with.  The one thing that struck me is as soon as he saw the work he realised what was important about it even though it is largely invisible in the small format of a book -the tiny details that reveal the Chinese element of the space which are barely visible until the image is huge.  The final edit included English style text for the title of Thames Town and the same repeated in Chinese characters (thankyou An for your local Shanghai spelling knowledge!), with a not inconsiderable shift in the image layout.  I maintained my stance of one image per page mostly but enlarged the initial image to span the centrefold and shrunk the opposite one to accomodate the text and made some fairly minor changes to the cover.  The main changes came within though with the image layout.  2 images were dropped completely and replaced wth a new end pair.  I will upload both pdfs when I get the cance so any interested readers can have a look for themselves at the difference the advice of one of the best editors in the world can make…

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