National Trust - Location

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Evalution

To start with I found this project to be a little uninteresting though when moving forward and getting into the swing of things it became much more fun. Not the type of project that I would normally choose but I am quite pleased with the results.

Once I did get into the project it became much easier and much more enjoyable though finding locations and getting to them did proove difficult on occasaion and had to be let go and a new location chosen.

With the project I wanted to go down the more animal route showing animals, insects as well as the occasionally person aswell. Which again worked rather well.

The largest problem I ran into was the weather, being in the UK the weather was terrible so every time it was a nice sunny day I went out and photographed what I could. My reasoning behind this was photographing a rainy day did not reflect the bright and happy nature of the National Trust.

If I where given the chance to do this project again I would try to choose some more exotic and unique locations around the country.

Overall I actually enjoyed the project and found it quite interesting.

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Research - Heritage Lottery Fund

After researching the Heathland Heritage Fund I found that about 70% of their funding comes from the Heritage Lottery Fund and their funding in turn comes from the National Lottery. The Heritage Lottery Fund is the largest benifactor of protected land and British heritage spending on average £375 Million per year. Which protects and helps to fund everything from National Museums to my local park. Since 1994 the HLF has donated over £4.9 billion in an attempt to protect many parts of the UK as well as keeping others funded.

One of their latest successful projects is the refurbishment of Lantern Tower at North Queensburry, in which the HLF awarded £40,000 to referbish the stonework, iron work as well as the installation of a working replica lamp.

Whitstable - Second PDF Layout

I have changed the main photograph along with the side photographs though still trying to decide which looks better. I believe both show sides of the National Trust Equally.

Research - Heathland Heritage

After travelling to Gilees Pond & Park I decided to do some research into what the Heathland Heritage actually was. Upon my research I found that in some aspects it is similar to the National Trust however a much smaller and more selective nature.

Heathland Heritage started in 1997 and finished in 2010. In that time they have accomplished the restoation of over 46,000 hectares, re-created 2,500 hectared and improved the conditions of the various habitiats has also benefitted species such as the sand lizard and woodlark.

However in 2010 after their final project of the Orkney Islands finished all applications and all funds have been allocated. This is where the similarities finish where as the National Trust still look for and still preserve locations if they need protecting.

Heathland Heritage has protected many locations within the United Kingdom everwhere from the Orkney Isles, Isles of Scicily as well as Northern Ireland and East Anglia.

Sunday, 27 May 2012

Whitstable Portrait PDF Mock Up

Here is my first mock up of the InDesign layout. Still needs some tweaking and think Im going to change the order around and possibly the main photograph.

Trip to Whitstable

Took a trip down to Whitstable in an attempt to get some further out NT style photographs. Only thing was that there was some kind of smog or mist surrounding the coastal line which made it near impssible to get a decent photograph. However when we moved further inland this alll changed and the lighting improved.

We found Whitstable Castle which was protected by a smilar organisation to the National Trust however this was the National Lottery.

Also moved into a wonderful rapeseed field which backed onto a church.