ZINE : DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTING

For my zine I experimented with different layouts of the photographs looking at how they are working together and what the narrative will look like and seem to be. I experimented with the use of some of my ‘home sweet home’ images to create and idea about looking inside a house, the house I used to create my home sweet home images was one built just after the war and contains a lot of old and collectable archival stuff. For this reason I began to experiment with the idea of having the first couple and last couple of photographs be of the house to create the idea of looking into the house and showing the object photographs of being stuff inside the house to create a sense of narrative and story to the zine. I also liked experimenting with the start and end of the book being in duller colours, black and white photographs as well as the use of grey and minimal splattering colour I feel this works well in the beginning of end being calming and minimal.

For the middle of my zine I began to experiment with my other object photographs that had been produced in more colour as well as my photomontage ones in response to Rafal Milach. I started to experiment with them being full bleed and leaving boarders as well as looking at the different orders I could place them in to create and narrative sequence to work with the idea of looking into the house and back out with my starting and ending photographs. I found that the photographs I feel worked better as full bleed as I think it gave more effect to the photographs and created a bigger impact.

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