Idea No.1
Basing the typesetting on a family tree.
Using
a grid to divide up the page into
four columns and multiple rows to create a baseline for the text and also
sections to order information, which in this case was family members.
Lines
that spoke of the father are aligned
in the furthest left column, lines
that mentioned the mother in the far right and lines referring to the sister are
placed center left, (to be more towards the other female). Lines spoken of Pip
(the narrator) are directly centered.
Through
using each family members name to create the text’s layout, the names are enlarged
to create hierarchy. This is also
done with the title and is emphasized with how these words, ‘Great Expectations’
stand alone as the text is spaced
multiple lines below.
The
line ‘and never saw any likeness of either of them’ was crossed out to
visualized this idea.
“The
shape of the letters on my father’s grave, gave me an odd idea that he was a
square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.” Taking the word square and
using it in the typesetting was also done by
running the text along the sides of a square that within it, includes the
lines spoken about the father.
The
last paragraph talks not of the family but of a river, therefore separating
this piece from the text that speaks of the family was an initial decision,
which lead to placing it very low on the page as it if it is a river. Putting
the text in italic was done to give
it a more water-like personality.
Idea. No2.
Basing the typesetting on the idea of ‘Great Expectations’.
This
idea was based upon the way I reacted to the title mainly. ‘Expectations’ can
be something stressful and unclear as to whether they will be achieved. In
light of this I experimented with the
tracking and kerning of the text, attempting to make it as stressful and
unclear to read.
I
took part of the text that spoke about the narrator’s mother and father ‘and
never saw any likeness of either of them’ and singled it out. This was in
reaction to how ‘expectations’ often can come from our parents.
The
title is placed centred to focus the attention on the purpose of this
typesetting. With the word ‘Great’ making the word ‘expectations’ appear small.
This was done to reiterate the idea that although they can be thought to be big
and ‘great’ the reality and fear of them can be them being small.
