Today we had our first proper progress meeting in which we relayed our condensed mind map with out 5 rules. (I'd insert an image of our mind map but we didn't get it back!) However, I was left wondering, at the end of the session, how beneficial this had been for us as a group.
Although it was good to hear other people's ideas and their approaches because that allowed us to see the different methods of creating zines and other areas we might have forgotten about otherwise.
Although it was good to hear other people's ideas and their approaches because that allowed us to see the different methods of creating zines and other areas we might have forgotten about otherwise.
However, the actual feedback we received from the tutors just seemed to be a misunderstanding of our intentions. As mentioned before, we found it difficult to understand zines as many of them we saw in the beginning were illustration and graphic based. We are very used to words, essays and debates we couldn't make sense of zines. We understand the content of zines can be whatever you choose and the same for the format yet we decided to follow a more visual approach in order to challenge ourselves beyond our comfort zone. When we originally discussed this the previous week, the tutors were excited that we were not going to restrict ourselves by our comfort zone.
Therefore, we worked on a concept that would be visual yet work in our favour. So, we came up with an idea using images related to our exhibition proposals, from the previous unit, and format it visually in our zine in a surrealist and Dadist manner. Yet, when we explained this this week, we were told to stick to what we know and use words. We felt despite all the research we had done and the fact we had decided to come our of our comfort zones was all going to waste and was not appreciated. We left the session very confused - not a useful way to come out of a progress meeting.
Therefore, we worked on a concept that would be visual yet work in our favour. So, we came up with an idea using images related to our exhibition proposals, from the previous unit, and format it visually in our zine in a surrealist and Dadist manner. Yet, when we explained this this week, we were told to stick to what we know and use words. We felt despite all the research we had done and the fact we had decided to come our of our comfort zones was all going to waste and was not appreciated. We left the session very confused - not a useful way to come out of a progress meeting.
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