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The project is contained in a brightly coloured, glossy plastic ringbinder; it is in good condition and looks new, though there are few light scratches on the back cover, a few indentations on the front indicating that it has been used as a supporting surface when writing, and some grubby marks on the inside lining, where it has been handled.
Inside the binder, the project consists of sheets of A4 paper: mainly narrow lined notepaper, torn along the top from a pad, but also a few plain sheets, torn down the side from a pad; in the page notes below, narow lined paper can be assumed unless otherwise indicated. The sheets all have holes punched in the side; the holes are worn, and the sheets slightly crumpled, from handling; the top hole is completely torn in the last two pages; sellotape has been used to mend a torn sheet. Each sheet contains work on only one side of the paper; the other side is left blank.
The writing, underlining, and corrections are mostly in blue biro; two or three different biros appear to have been used (there is some variation between pages and within the text on one page, and one biro seems rather smudgy); in the page notes below, biro can be assumed, unless otherwise indicated. Notice the alterations to page numbers on some pages. Felt tip is used on one page for words which form part of a picture. In the drawings, pencil is used for light outlining and framing, and sometimes for shading; erased pencil lines indicate alteration to earlier drafts. One drawing contains some red felt tip.
The project contains some imported material: a lot of small, glossy magazine cuttings, stuck onto the page with glue (some other pages have glue on the surface from contact with these pages); some photos, and a full page ‘poster’, attached with sellotape (it often tends to be all creased up, giving the impression that it was awkward to work with). It seems that the child is working out different ways of working with these materials.
In general, while the project is quite neatly presented, the evidence of accidental damage to different components gives a very strong impression of the physical action and effort which has gone into the process of producing it.
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The colourful design is all part of the binder itself, not produced by the child.
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This page is quite crumpled
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Two or three different biros appear to have been used here
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A darker biro is used here.
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The writing is smaller and more ‘joined up’ here than on previous pages, and the darker biro seems rather smudgy. The top of the page is torn.
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The drawing is in pencil; erased lines indicate alteration to the shape and position of the nose and mouth; a fairly hard, sharp, pencil has been used. The eyes and collar have been worked quite heavily, leaving indentations on the reverse side.
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Erased lines indicate alteration to size of passport at the bottom and at the right side.
A light biro line indicates a slip of the pen. Indentations on the reverse side point to the pressure used when writing.
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Light, sketchy pencil lines under the right armpit (ie the reader’s left side) indicate careful drafting; erased lines down the sides of the body point to widening of the hips, and lines across and up the centre of the chest indicate very considerable attention and alteration to the structure of the torso; indentations on the reverse side indicate the extra pressure applied when drawing the chest, in the final version. Felt tip is used for the blue capital letters and red clasp of belt; it looks very dry, as if it is running out; it is visible on the reverse side of the page. Two holes have been punched in the side; the top one is torn and has been mended with a small piece of sellotape. There is some glue on the reverse side (top right edge) probably from the following page.
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This page contains imported materials: magazine cuttings, stuck onto the page, fairly firmly, with glue. The white mark on Peter Andre’s forehead, in the bottom cutting, is the result of a torn surface (the paper may have had glue or sellotape stuck to it). The commas have been worked extremely heavily in biro, resulting in deep indentations on the reverse. The holes in the side of the page are beginning to tear. There is another set of holes, on the right side; they are not at all worn and do not appear to have been used.
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The page contains imported materials: fourteen magazine cuttings, some positioned so that they overlap slightly, stuck down with glue. The page is quite stiff and heavy, with the weight of the glue and the cuttings. The side of the page is torn and has been mended with sellotape.
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Erased lines indicate considerable attention and alteration to the singer’s left arm and hand, also some changes to his hairline, right elbow, inside legs and crutch. There is some glue on the surface of the paper, top left, and what appears to be a tiny piece of white paper stuck to it. The holes in the side are very worn.
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This page consists of imported material: a full page ‘poster’; two strips of sellotape have been used at each corner, to attach the picture, fairly loosely, to a sheet of lined paper (not visible until the page is turned over); the picture overlaps the edges of the lined paper; holes have been punched through the two surfaces, but they are both torn. The corners of the poster are pretty creased.
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Erased pencil lines indicate alteration to the boat, and point to the decision to change from a ‘head on’ to sideways view.
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This page contains imported material: two glossy photos, attached with strips of sellotape down the sides and across the middle. It feels as if the centre strip was stuck down first, before the side strips. The strip on the right of the top photo has been twisted to the right at the bottom, so that it rounds the corner, finishing on top of the centre strip. The bottom photo extends fractionally over the bottom edge of the page. Biro marks on top of the sellotape at the left side indicate that the writing was completed after the photos had been attached. The holes in the side of the page are rather torn.
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This page contains imported material: two glossy photos, attached with strips of sellotape most of the way down the sides, across the top and bottom, and across the middle. It seems a little tidier than the preceding page, as if the child is working out how to use the sellotape, but the top strip is twisted up at the end, and another strip has been folded under, on the left side. Both holes in the side are worn; the top one is completely torn; the page is held just by the one.
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This page contains imported material: two glossy photos, attached with strips of sellotape part way down the sides, and across the middle. It appears neater than either of the preceding pages, but the sellotape extends fractionally over the right side, and has only partly been stuck down onto the reverse fothe sheet. On the left side, the writing extends slightly over the sellotape, indicating that it was completed after the photos were attached. As with the previous page, both holes in the side are worn; the top one is completely torn; the page is held just by the one hole.