Studio Practice: ONE WEEK ZINE

READY TO GET GOING! Excited for the briefing because I wanted to know what's next...

Study Task 1: MAKE A ZINE.

I've never bought or read a zine before so I'm not completely sure what my product should look like (PINTEREST TO THE RESCUE).

I'm also worried that my work won't suit the aesthetic of a zine because they are so DIY, trendy and random. I don't know whether my tone of voice would suit a zine.

I'm not sure how I'm going to respond to Poe's work in just 12 pages! Need to narrow down my thoughts.

A fun little task and it will be fantastic to see lots of different zines on Friday. It's a very quick way to produce work in a small publication - easy and cheap.

Chat with Ben:

Doing Poe - actually suits me. The right choice!

MAKE IT YOUR POE. Don't do the cliche that people expect, make it your own.

Poe was a bit camp really!

Artists to look at - Jan Svankmajer (The Pit, The Pendulum and Hope)

GET ONTO THE PHOTOCOPIERS

May not have chance in this module to use puppetry because it's very print-based.

Chat with Teresa:

Seems that no one else in Level 5 is doing Poe.

Keep it simple. Do you have enough time to do this?!

PLAY. Only a quick brief, not to judged but to get you started.

Main idea:

Had a couple of ideas rolling around my skull, including a collection of 'found' objects related to Edgar or a timelapse of a weird crow-beast hatching from an egg, but the main idea I had was the storyboard above in which Reynolds sees a crow and it lands on his hand. Very simple. Very short. But a snippet of Poe's 'The Raven' in Jay-form.

Pinterest Research:

A DIFFERENT APPROACH

Looked at zines and realised my approach doesn't actually suit the format or the product. Decided to start again. Used the photos I took for research over summer - Nests, eggs, my crows, gravestones and zoomed in. Printed these textures in black and white.

VERY AMBIGUOUS AND MYSTERIOUS. Interesting and grunge.

To me it's a bit BORING//? Definitely what the task wanted me to do - very quick and simple BUT it doesn't really reflect MY response to Poe.

I want it to discuss the creepy/spooky characters and his influence on Tim Burton and Henry Selick. No text works well in that it is vague BUT I want there to be a little more going on than just macro photos. Poe was more complex than that. Still want to use them somehow but incorporate the idea of characters too...