Sequencing and InDesign Workshop

No previous experience needed but if you have a zine/photobook in progress then you can bring this along for sequencing advice.Mark Power, world-renowned photographer and well known for his works ‘The Shipping Forecast’, explains how anyone who has ever arranged flowers, a palette of colour has tried sequencing in one way or another. Sequencing is often applied to anything visual and it is what drives the expectations of effortlessly cohesive social media accounts today.The workshop will be in person and will look at sequencing in physical form and online, for books, exhibitions, and websites or portfolios. It will be split into two halves, starting with looking at sequencing in all forms.Firstly, we’ll look at examples of pairing two images, then imagery and text, and then move on to look at full zines, exhibitions, and anything in between. The idea of the workshop is to help people gain an understanding of the role negative space plays in creating a narrative and speeding up or slowing down said narrative. It’s also useful for looking at links between images, what one picture may say to another and why that communicates the message of the project it sits in.However, learning to sequence images and text can also just better the aesthetics of websites and social media to help them stand out at just a glance. We’ll use some physical prints that I will bring in of my own that we can sequence in person and later explain how the same set of images can tell a variation of stories depending on how they are set up.We will then apply this to the works that are on the walls. If you are a fan of physical prints, feel free to bring along your own prints to sequence. The second half of the workshop, we will look at InDesign. This is the most popular platform for making a zine, magazine, or photobook, but it is notoriously difficult when it comes to printing.I will explain the most common types of book binding and the settings needed from InDesign to print the images in the sequence you have designed. I’ll also talk through any shortcuts and other little tips and tricks I have learnt that make it easier to use.Ending the workshop with a little step-by-step guide for printing from InDesign that you can take home.

No pre knowledge required
  Adobe InDesign tool knowledge, practise pieces of prints.
  Recommend to bring your own laptop so we can use trial version if you never used before. Or if you can't we can share tutors laptop to practice together.