I am considering producing a high quality book of photography of Z4’s made up from forum members cars. I have two reasons for doing this: First to create a cool coffee table book for us all, but also to raise money for charity.
I will need a lot of tasteful, high resolution pictures (around 70 - 100) in either a square or landscape A4 format. The book will be hard backed with high quality inner pages. It will be professionally laid out and designed (I run a design agency), and will make a perfect for a Xmas present for your kids or wives give you! Pictures will be Photoshopped and corrected where necessary and I will remove all number plates. Any details sent to me, (forum name, mods, colour, model etc) will be included with each photograph.
The sales from each book would be split in the following way:
• £10 for charity: As my family (like many others) has been affected by Alzheimer’s, this is the charity you will donating to.
• £5 to the forum as a donation: I have run the idea past the Mods and they are happy for me to advertise this on the forum. They haven’t asked for a contribution, but as we all benefit from this forum I think it is fair that the forum gets a cut from each book sale.
• £9 - £14 (approx cost) for the production of the book. This will depend on the number of books purchased and the number of pages in each book. The more photographs then the more pages, the higher the cost but the better the book.
• Postage and packaging (second class, delivered middle of December)
• Total cost of book £24 to £29 plus P&P (approximately)
You will be able to donate £10 through a Just Giving page. This donation will be non refundable, but it will guarantee your car will be in the book as either a full page or half page (depending on numbers and proportions) but it will NOT commit you to buying the book. Those of you who would like to purchase the book will only have to pay the outstanding amount (£14-19). If you decided not to purchase, then your soul can be happy as you will have given £10 to the help the fight against dementia!
As a little charity bonus, there will also be the option to donate an extra £5 and have your car on the front cover of the book. If there is more than one person who donates an extra £5 then we will have a poll to decide which one gets the prime spot (I will certainly be donating an extra £5'er, so if anyone else does there will definitely be a poll). If you want to put more than one picture in the book (if you have had more than one Z) then again, its £10 per picture. So, some of our fellow forum members could potentially donate up to £140!!
But before I jump in and start something that can’t be completed, I would like to know if this is of interest to people? I know the calendars have not been too popular recently, but this is something different and longer lasting. Without your contribution of 70-100 great pictures, the project will be a bit of a non starter, simply because I want the book to be desirable.
I will be using this poll below to decide whether to undertake this project. If everyone says they will donate and send a picture, and only a few people do then it will be unfair on everyone as I will not be able to proceed, so please only say “yes" if you genuinely would donate £10 and send in a picture.
I will run the poll for 7 days from today and create another post if there is enough interest.
**Just a quick edit for clarity.
£10 will guarantee your car in the book, however I may approach people for pictures and it will be entirely up to them if they wish to donate. Although I want to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society I also want to produce a book that I am happy with and others will want to own, it is not just a vehicle for raising money for charity.**
***poll extended as suggested for 14 days
Thanks
Shaun
I will need a lot of tasteful, high resolution pictures (around 70 - 100) in either a square or landscape A4 format. The book will be hard backed with high quality inner pages. It will be professionally laid out and designed (I run a design agency), and will make a perfect for a Xmas present for your kids or wives give you! Pictures will be Photoshopped and corrected where necessary and I will remove all number plates. Any details sent to me, (forum name, mods, colour, model etc) will be included with each photograph.
The sales from each book would be split in the following way:
• £10 for charity: As my family (like many others) has been affected by Alzheimer’s, this is the charity you will donating to.
• £5 to the forum as a donation: I have run the idea past the Mods and they are happy for me to advertise this on the forum. They haven’t asked for a contribution, but as we all benefit from this forum I think it is fair that the forum gets a cut from each book sale.
• £9 - £14 (approx cost) for the production of the book. This will depend on the number of books purchased and the number of pages in each book. The more photographs then the more pages, the higher the cost but the better the book.
• Postage and packaging (second class, delivered middle of December)
• Total cost of book £24 to £29 plus P&P (approximately)
You will be able to donate £10 through a Just Giving page. This donation will be non refundable, but it will guarantee your car will be in the book as either a full page or half page (depending on numbers and proportions) but it will NOT commit you to buying the book. Those of you who would like to purchase the book will only have to pay the outstanding amount (£14-19). If you decided not to purchase, then your soul can be happy as you will have given £10 to the help the fight against dementia!
As a little charity bonus, there will also be the option to donate an extra £5 and have your car on the front cover of the book. If there is more than one person who donates an extra £5 then we will have a poll to decide which one gets the prime spot (I will certainly be donating an extra £5'er, so if anyone else does there will definitely be a poll). If you want to put more than one picture in the book (if you have had more than one Z) then again, its £10 per picture. So, some of our fellow forum members could potentially donate up to £140!!
But before I jump in and start something that can’t be completed, I would like to know if this is of interest to people? I know the calendars have not been too popular recently, but this is something different and longer lasting. Without your contribution of 70-100 great pictures, the project will be a bit of a non starter, simply because I want the book to be desirable.
I will be using this poll below to decide whether to undertake this project. If everyone says they will donate and send a picture, and only a few people do then it will be unfair on everyone as I will not be able to proceed, so please only say “yes" if you genuinely would donate £10 and send in a picture.
I will run the poll for 7 days from today and create another post if there is enough interest.
**Just a quick edit for clarity.
£10 will guarantee your car in the book, however I may approach people for pictures and it will be entirely up to them if they wish to donate. Although I want to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society I also want to produce a book that I am happy with and others will want to own, it is not just a vehicle for raising money for charity.**
***poll extended as suggested for 14 days
Thanks
Shaun
1066 Country
North West Surrey
south yorkshire
great idea for a great cause!
