Unit X - College Four - Research

Unit X - College Four - Zines - Research

Since we had decided on what our zine was going to be based on, it was time to decide on what our zine would look like, what jobs each one of us had and what our zine would be focused on.

We all agreed that we didn't want out zine to just be a re-production of the original punk zine from the 1970's. We thought that an edition version of our zine would be more original and different. This gave us chance to experiment with writing and focusing each zine on the 'rebellious' person, putting in as much detail as we could. We decided that our zine will come in six editions, each one would be focused on the different people that caused a rebellion. It would contain facts, images, illustration and quotes about said person. 

Our zine would be made up from one sheet of A4 paper folded into a booklet form as we felt that this would be easier to print, compact and not too overloaded with content.

The zine will feature a quote on the front, with our zine name, the year and death (if necessary ) We decided not to include the persons name as we felt it would be more fun if it was a lucky dip and it would perhaps entice people to buy more. On the opposite page would be our manifesto and what we are about. The inside would include images and text about the person on why they became to be such an important figure and what exactly they rebelled against and why it was so important at the time. The final touch would be on the inside and it would feature a poster of the person, which Matt volunteered to illustrate, with their name and birth/death date around their image.

We decided that each person should do two zines focusing on a person of their choice, which are -

Myself - Vivienne Westwood and Virginia Woolf

Iona - Percy Bysshe Shelley and Caravaggio

Justine - Tristan Tzara and John Milton

Matt - Focusing on creating illustrations for the zines and a poster to advertise our zine.

Our idea was originally to print using the photocopier, this would bring the idea of the 1970s punk zine into our zine, as that was the menthol of choice to print. However, we all agreed that it would look more professional and probably easier to print of the riso machine. This turned out to be a better idea as it gave Matt's illustrations a beautiful finish.