Freeman plans and progress

I had a meeting with Becky the author and she gave me the final poems she has completed. Over drinks and churros we went through each one and i showed her the concepts i had come up with and we worked each one, with hear inputting things that she felt were most important to represent. I liked doing the concepts with her there because it was quicker and to the point with the more complicated poems because she could tell me the elements that mattered and explain what she was trying to convey in some. The only issue was that she is not a designer and that meant that a lot of her idea and suggestions were a bit insane. She wanted so many different elements in some images, she got carried away with trying to represent every line in the poem. So i've had to take a stand as the visual production manager (self given title) and say that she has to be limited to elements per illustration because otherwise it becomes too complicated and the meaning is lost in the image. I think she needs more confidence in her  poetry and to understand that the poems do a l to of the speaking themselves. The illustrations are there to enhance the words not repeat them.

I now hav ethe concepts for every poem and have started doing the final illustrations. My next step is to go back to the older poems she gave me and make the illustrations finalised by arranging them on a page with the poem. Also i will make a couple different examples/variations involving colour v boac and white and some layout variations that i can bring to the meeting with the publisher on tuesday and get them to amok some solid decisions about the final look of the book.

Things i need to ask and get answers to:

1. what format is the book? A format or square? other?
2. Colour or black and white?
3. if black and white will the cover be colour?
4. Have they decided on a title yet?
5. Discuss cover concepts
6. Pattern inlay pages?
7. What font do they want to use?
8. will the text be in the same place on each page or do they prefer it to work around the image?
9. Author image? would they like an illustration or are they using a photo?
10. What order are the poems going in?