Zine in a Day

Jean McEwan, a visual artist, came into uni today to teach us about zine making and to help us create a zine of our very own in just a day. I found the workshop very interesting as the zines are quick and easy to make and I really enjoyed doing something I've never really thought about doing before. Once I had finished my zine I was really happy with how it turned out as we hadn't had that long to do it and had little materials to build it with, yet in the end it had all come together wonderfully. It will definitely be something I try again throughout the researching of fashion and my chosen interest of film.

In my zine I decided to focus on fashion and film during the 1940s on one side of the zine and on the other side on the 1920s. Jean taught me that sometimes less is more and giving the images and collages space to breath sometimes makes more of an effect than filling the whole page with random images just for the sake of filling the page. She also suggested on some pages I add lines or dots to the blank areas as there is still plenty of breathing space, yet the page doesn't look completely empty.

What I found to be most effective and attractive when creating the collages inside the zine was ripping pictures out of magazines instead of neatly cutting edges. This gave more of a handmade look showing the effort and work that had actually going in to it. At the end of the day, we photocopied our zines to see the complete final outcome altogether as more of a digital print than the analogue collages we'd just made.

I am really pleased with my outcome and cannot wait to try making one again. As I know more about what I'm supposed to be doing now and how fun and simple it is to make a mini zine, this time I might try another decade or particular programmes or films from a those decades.