Developing concertina book

One of the deliverable ideas for the metamorphosis brief was to create a concertina book. In this way, it can work as a book which is most relevant to the book fair, and can also work as one long sequence when stretched out, showing the entire metamorphosis process.

On top of that, the book itself shows the metamorphosis in form from book to one long sequential illustration.

I don't want the book to be very big, kind of portable/ pocket sized. Originally I had the idea to make each page postcard sized, but this made it way too long.

In the end I decided on making a 120 x 80mm sized concertina book when closed. The problem then was the length of the sequence, as 21 x 80 = 1680 which is larger than any ISO A format paper in common use.

By cutting the sequence to  15 frames of the sequence, the overall length of the concertina hits 1200mm, which is just about small enough to fit on A0 (give or take a few mm).

In fact, I have decided to cut down to 13 frames, as it will fit perfectly at 14 frames and leaves one frame clean of designs for a kind of cover.

This will need some more work, but this is the general resolution layout to work with and to design to.