Creating Exhibizine 3 : Reunion (13/05)

Ready to go for Zine making day 2!

With all four members present, we could set about really getting our zine together today. And although it was stressful, cramped and made our brains melt, we managed to get a lot done. We completed more pages, started the rest of the pages. It really feels like our zine is starting to take place.

Zine 5....

 In my opinion, it was laborious having to do everything 15 times and make sure all the finer details were correct. Hopefully it should be worth it when we have 15 entirely handmade zines. Even lots of the writing is hand written for each zine. We have kept photocopying pages to a minimum except for where it is impossible to recreate. For example, our front cover, the background paper was from a flyer envelope from Font last year and we were unable to find it again. We tried other options but we felt this paper worked the best so we photocopied it.

Taking a break with mind-blowing photos!

 The one thing we didn't except when creating these zines was the cost. I'm not entirely sure if the tutors took this into account. As students, we have to spent all the money we do have on fees, bills, food and get left with little else. Therefore, spending £20+ each on printing is not ideal, nor is having to buy all the materials and things required for the zine fair. For example, printing an A4 side of colour costs 20p each therefore if we need 15 of each image, it could cost £3 for just page. (That's a whopping £48 a zine if we print out 15 A4 sides!) This meant we had to a lot of handwriting etc just to save on money which took an unbelievable amount of time. I understand that the zines are to be sold at a price to cover this but I do not feel that all the money we have spent on materials can be covered by this. It would have been useful if, perhaps the faculty could have given us a discount for materials or perhaps even a little bit of money.

Kate loving her zine!

Hopefully, if we keep working at this rate, we should finish these zines in time! We all went home with prep to do for the next session (tomorrow) thus things should go smoothly. Fingers crossed!