Wednesday 18 April

Today, the plan was to trim all of the white borders off the photographs and to at least get all of the circular prints onto the photographs.
I began the four hour session by trimming the white borders off of the photographs. I didn't do this in my mock final outcome as behind the photographs it was white. However, now that I am going to be attaching the photographs to a black painted board, I have removed the white borders. I have done this to prevent the rectangular edges making the finalised composition looking too structured, especially once the circular prints have been applied. Also, the white borders would have been incredibly noticeable as they would've contrasted the black board directly and so I cut them off to remove this light shade in the background. I then stuck the photographs to the board using double sided tape rather than nails that I had done in the mock final piece. This is because I want everything on the board to be flush and that the nails would have just made the outcome look poorly assembled. Sticking the photographs to the board took a while as I had to trim down the A3 ones that go in the four corners as they were slightly too long. I did try to get a piece of board that was big enough to cater for my final outcome, however this was the biggest that I could find in Selco. By sticking the photographs to the board before printing on them, I could see where to put each print in regards to spacing. Whilst printing the circles, I found that when there was little paint, a singular circle line was made. The precision of this line made the composition feel more wholesome, especially as I have used line in the background on the newspaper. This addition of line adds another one of the elements of art into the foreground, as well as it being in the background.