Project Update 3

Time for another quick update on the progress of our photobook. So far we have amassed quite a number of photos (many interesting ones too...hmm...I wonder which ones will make it to the print) and we are in the midst of narrowing down the photos to use as well as the design of the photobook itself.

Speaking about design, as you guys know we will be coming up with a Songbo FC emblem as well as a mascot. So what's the difference between a mascot and an emblem? An emblem will be like the Man Utd and Liverpool badges that we are so familiar with. A mascot would be the guy wearing the red devil costume taking photos with kids around the stadium. As we have already revealed, our mascot will be a bulldog (no plans for a costume though). Below are 2 pictures to illustrate what I meant.

Example of a Mascot

Example of an Emblem

Yan have took the liberty to do a quick sourcing of the price to print such photobooks and we are getting prices of around $30 for an A4-sized 20 pages, soft cover booklet, with an option to add 2 pages for around $2. If you take away a few pages for introductory text and other misc stuff, we would be left with around 16 pages. That would be able to hold roughly 60+ pictures if we squeeze in 4 pictures on every page. With the current count of selected pictures at the 90+ mark, not inclusive of the late 2008 to 2009 pictures I have yet to go through, it does not take long to guess we have to either fork out a substantial amount for the book or drastically reduce our number of pictures to print.

Taking these into consideration, we have decided that the photobook is to be focused on the Songbo FC soccer team instead of being a "15th Year Anniversary" photobook for most of us. This means that the retro photos from our sec sch days will only be included in digital format in the DVD to be included with the book. With that, I have put up a survey as well to have a general feel of how much we are willing to pay for this, taking into consideration that it would be a one-off memorable to commemorate our 15th Anniversary. Please leave comments about this if you have any as we have plenty of room for discussion.