Folded Format Plan and Mock-Up

 After reviewing my thumbnail initial ideas I developed my plans further. My favourite was by far the folded format book with cutouts however from here I wanted to develop this and after recovering feedback I decided to look further into the idea of I’d a concertina style book that will fold out into eight equal parts showing the story. I think this will be more effective as it shows the story as a journey much like the journey of Valentina’s life I am trying to capture. 

The concertina format would have two sides, allowing me to tell more of a story with both sides having different elements. For example in the front I would include eight different illustrations all showing progress throughout Valentina’s life from when she was a child all the way to her journey to space. Whilst on the back I could include a large illustration that adds an extra detail by showing more of the environment whilst also capturing my targets audience. I also like the idea ideas of cutouts from my previous thumbnails therefore this is something I would like to try and take forward into this piece using simple shapes to reveal the page behind when being unfolded and therefore drawing the reader in. 

Above shows a diagram of how the concertina book would work. I would like the book to be made of eight panels all measuring at roughly 21x21cm. I chose this size as my target audience is for children and therefore, by producing a larger format it will appear clearer and more engaging. I wanted to test how this looked by creating a mock-up using paper. 

Above shows the photo once creating my mock-up folded format, to do this I used A3 paper which I folded and cut before glueing the panels together to give that eight panel look. From here I was happy with the actual style of the folded format and feel it could work effectively in a way that will help capture the details of Valentina’s story. However,  going forward I would want to test different paper weights and looks as you can see it has a lack of structure as the paper begins to collapse on the ends.