OUGD504 - Page decisions

Pagination and Order of Pages Within a Book Format

The key elements within the book are the two lines for the beach and road which create a narrative and journey throughout the publication and is vital to the layout of the whole book.

The main problems with the lines are:
- If both lines are running parallel on the same page then there may be multiple locations in the same area , making it hard to fit large images in for both on a double spread
- If the lines are scaled proportionally over multiple pages then there will be pages with no content because of the gaps between locations.
- The beach line has less locations than the road line which has multiple activities in some locations as well making some areas very dense with content which would not fit on one double spread 

Pagination Considerations include:
- Scaling the lines individually to how much space is need for the amount of locations that are on that line e.g. the beach line would be spread across four double spreads because there are only four locations, whereas the road would be spread over twenty pages to fit all the content on. However some areas have lots of places within them that would not fit on a double spread, so these would have to be spread out over the following pages but then the content will not be in the right place geographically. 

* When tested it was found that having the lines at different scales looked visually jarring and messy as the road line became very thick whereas the beach line was much more elegant so this had to be reconsidered.

- Having the beach line flow from front to middle and road from back to middle separates the lines and makes them two journeys allowing more room for content. Flipping the book when following the road line allows the road to be at the top of the page and the points to be plotted underneath, whilst also mimicking an Arabic book. The beach line would flow geographically from left to right whereas the road line would flow from right to left. The line would be scaled across the pages and proportionally in relation to one another which would create gaps between content in the book.

- Running both lines intermittently on individual pages throughout the book at the top of the book would mean that a beach section could be along side a road section. Scaling the lines proportionally means that the line that has a location at that point through the journey will be shown , meaning the line will swap and change between the two. This would cut down on the amount of blank space there would be within the book because locations would be shown from one line or the other.

- Running both the beach and road lines parallel to each other throughout the book at a proportionate scale would mean that pages with one line that doesn't have any locations may have a location on the other line to fill the page with content e.g. there may not be a location on that section of beach, but there may be on the road. This may help with minimising gaps within pages, however does not solve the problem of having multiple locations within a close area. This idea would start at the either end of the geographical area and naturally progress across the landscape.

- Similar to the previous idea of intermittently swapping between lines, it was also considered doing this over double page spreads to allow more space for photographic content and larger images.