The zine is done

During this week I was desperate to get my zine over and done with, so to make sure I did the process of creating the final look was in full effect. Previously I had showed the process and the initial idea of how I wanted the zine to look like. To start off I removed the idea of having the names of the people running through the entire page. One reason was that depending on the name of the person some looked good on the page but people that had longer names made the page too busy and you could not see the full image half the time. So if only some worked I scrapped the idea because I can't have one page with large text and another without it just made the zine less professional looking.

From all the adjustments I made, I learned that "Less is more" Soof and Marta both encouraged me to make the image have as much effect as the text so they advised that I remove the huge names also. Another issue was the font, I tried using the same font as the title "Raleway" as I thought that it would show continuity throughout...again Soof told me to have second thoughts on the choice, at first I wasn't going to agree but trying other fonts gave the pages a different feel. And who wouldve thought that "Times New Roman" would be the font to pull through. It gave of a calming vibe especially the way the paragraph was laid out, it is smooth and aligned easy for the eyes to just flow through.

And one more thing, the images. People in my class were very impressed with the photos I took and they didn't think anything should interfere with them because well, they looked cool!. So instead of having the images at full bleed I scaled them down to a smaller size because I got an idea form one of Marta's zines to have an image layer another image. In Marta's zine she had always used a landscape shot of scenery behind another main image. The colours of both images were either similar or would contrast with one another. I tried to implement that in my zine and well it worked out for the best. It was quite hard to find images that sat well with another but I think I did a good job.

Printing on the other had was a pain, I didn't know how to actually print off a book. I tried everything I knew but I just kept failing, the pages didn't come out in the right order the first time, the second time it printed in A4! And the third time ...I ran out of printing money. So Soof again saved the day and did her magic to finally help me print it out properly. It didn't even come out that bad, better than I thought, that much that i could even hand it in like that, we will see.

Overall the zine was a success!

Note: Soof gave me some feedback again! She liked the idea of having images layer one another but she was picky on most of my choices. So she suggested that I should try and take the most dominant colour in a picture and make that the background colour. All I can say is that Soof knows best!