Medieval Booklet Production Session:3

`Friday 10th April 2015

Session Review

Following on from the previous session, I have begun to create a new flow chart featuring the new subcategory pages I would be including. This is useful, since working in a linear step by step fashion during each page's creation was clear enough for me to follow and enabled me to precisely keep track of what I was working on and the actions that needed to take place.

However, despite me following a structured and simple workflow, repeating the process of creating nw button and fitting it to a section in the timeline became so linear and tedious I had to take a well-deserved break and occupy my consciousness to something else.

Once rested, I returned to the tedious task of creating each page and I soon completed the main category pages; nevertheless, I realized if I was to inform the audience and display detailed information for each subcategory I would need to create an additional sixteen ages in other words I would possibly need to create additional subcategory pages of the existing subcategory pages.

Later during the session, I came across some intriguing information and hilarious doodles drawn by medieval monks. I then proceeded to draw using flash's paintbrush simple vector illustrations in order for me to plan what images to draw for each page and where to place.

References

Aberdeen Bestiary. (2011). The Medieval Bestiary. Available: http://bestiary.ca/. Last accessed 10th April 2015.

Vincze Miklós. (2013). Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts. Available: http://io9.com/bizarre-and-vulgar-illustrations-from-illuminated-medie-1456202572. Last accessed 10th April 2015.

The University of Nottingham. (2011). Manuscripts and Special Collections. Available: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/introduction.aspx. Last accessed 10th April 2015.

The University of Nottingham. (2015). Manuscripts and Special Collections. Available: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/languages.aspx. Last accessed 10th April 2015.

BBC. (2014). BBC - KS3 Bitesize History - Everyday life in the Middle Ages : Revision:. Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/middle_ages/everyday_life_middle_ages/revision/1/. Last accessed 10th April 2015.

Steven Till. (2009). Heraldry in the Middle Ages. Available: http://steventill.com/2008/07/19/heraldry-in-the-middle-ages/. Last accessed 10th April 2015

By Sebastian Jones