I am a big HP fan myself and love the thoeries, I lurk around quite often reading the theories etc, but I don't post much.
I am also heavily into scrapbooking. For anyone who doesn't know what this is here is a link, and please don't think of nasty sugar paper books with paper cutting in from the 1970s
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-scrapbooking.htm
Quote from that link, as I couldn't put it better myself.....
Instead of just placing photographs in a photo album, a scrapbooker aims to capture the feeling and the mood associated with thier memories. Photographs are embellished with all sorts of additional items to help set the mood of a spread. Backgrounds, rubber stampings, cut-outs, die cuts, drawings, newspaper clippings, stickers, cards and other flat items are used to embellish photographs to set the tone. When you look at a page in a photo album, you see a few photographs, but when you enjoy the pages of a well-executed scrapbook, you are transported to a different time.
Anyway, someone has asked me to make a scrapbook album for her daughter all about the HP series (books and films) culminating in the release of HP7.
I have already thought of doing a double page for each book, with some great extracts from the book, some stills from the films etc. I want to capture the excitment and fervour that the fans experience. I am very excited about doing this, combining the two passions in my life, my only worry is that I won't be able to it justice, and that i won't want to give the album away when it is finished!
I have also posted this on a Scrapbooking forum I belong to and have been given some links to some sites where I can download HP fonts etc, but these are not from HP fans themselves.
My questions to you would be:
What would you want to see in an album like this if someone were to make one for you? Book extracts? Photo stills?, newspaper articles? Some of the best theories from forums like this? JKR interviews?
I will not be getting paid for this, so I don't think I will have a problem with copyright (Ie in reproducing sections of the book, but someone might correct me on this!)
Does anyone know of a site where I can find archived photos and news stories from the earlier releases (GOF, OOTP) and releases of the earlier films?
Sorry to go on a bit. This will obviously be a work in progress until a little while after HP7 is released, but I am looking forward to hearing your suggestions.
Am currently re reading all the HP books in order to make this album and do a proper job, so may come up with some theories of my own
