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A "Making Of" Documentary about Sandi Pichon's new
book "Elvis on Tour '75" by Praytome Publishing. Producer
and Publisher Greg Retkowski invites you to a journey
of developing a new Elvis product. Be a fly on the wall
during the different stages of the printing and creating
processes (more)
Producer
and head of Praytome Publishing - Greg Retkowski
- explains in the first part of the "Making
Of" video, the story behind the "Elvis
On Tour '75" book project by Sandi Pichon.
You will learn which idea and concept author Sandi
Pichon had in mind first, and how the whole idea
changed into the photobook that will bring you a
full weekend in Atlanta. There are a dozens of unpublished
photos in this video clip which all will be available
in the short to be published book. You get the chance
to be the fly on the wall and see the different
stages of the producing process of the book.
Video: download / play
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In
the second part of our "Making Of" documentary
you can accompany the production team from the computer
workbench to the printing company where different
steps of the manufacturing take place.
At
first there have to be many meetings with a lot of
talking about how to achieve the desired printing
quality, the first printing step when the proof-plates
are created to get an idea of the final colours, discussion
about the sizes and measurements of the cover to have
them in the same size of the other Praytome Publishing
products and much more...
Video:
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In
the third part of our "Making Of" documentary
you can accompany the production team from imporant
conversations in the run-up of the printing process
to the next step of the production at "Merlin
Ltd" in Dortmund, Germany. This company is a
specialist in creating printing plates and allowed
us to have a look at their work during the manufacturing
of the printing plates for "Elvis on Tour '75".
Again, this video shows that a lot of different steps
of work by many people have to be done before you
hold the final product in your hand. And it is very
important to co-operate with professionals if your
main goal is to have a close to perfect product in
the end.
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In
the fourth part of our "Making Of" documentary
we give you an inside view on the production steps
at the printing company "Dassel Druck" in
Arnsberg / Germany. At this point the printing plates
- which were produced last week in the 3rd part of
the making of - were used in combination with the
4 basic colours to produce the sheets for the book.
The printing process is an extensive and difficult
work because all 4 printing plates have to be adjusted
precisely because otherwise you will get only blurry
pictures because of a faulty grid pattern.
Video:
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In
the 5th part of the "Making Of" of Elvis
On Tour ' 75 you will learn some interesting details
and will be able to get an inside view on the different
production steps at the bindery. The printed sheets
from the printing company will be folded, sorted,
packed and joined together while the back gets an
extra portion of glue, and finally the marriage of
hardcover envelope and the content pages, shrink-wrapping
and finally the packing into boxes for shipping.
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With this final part of the making of we will close
our little "Making Of" special about Sandi
Pichon's new book. We hope you had fun to be a part
of the production and will give us a little feedback
about what you think about the idea of being there
when an Elvis product gets manufactured. You can drop
us a line at email@praytome-publishing.com
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