Week 5, 6 & 7 : 3 – 17 July
Complete a 16 page zine
Deadline: Final zine needs to be printed on both sides and bound on WED 17 July.
Photo-zine: For the next 3 weeks we will be working towards producing a 16 page zine using InDesign and learn about narrative and sequencing.
All the zines will be assessed as part of your first coursework that is part of Personal Investigation unit.
Use PLANNING-TRACKING-PERSONAL INVESTIGATION-AUTUMN-TERM-2018 for a full overview of what you are required to do in the next 3 weeks.
You are required to self-monitor your progress and will be asked to upload Tracking-Sheet with an update on a weekly basis to your blog.
TASKS > produce a number of appropriate blog posts
Week 5: 1 – 7 July
Research and Narrative
Complete the following blog posts
RESEARCH > ANALYSIS
Research zines and newspaper design made by artists and photographer that will provide visual stimulus for your page designs. Produce a mood board and consider the following in your analysis:
- Format, size and orientation
- Design and layout
- Rhythm and sequencing
- Narrative and visual concept
- Title and cover
- Images and text
- Use of other design elements or inserts: archives, montages, graphics, typography
Café Royal Books is a small independent publisher of photography photobooks or zines, and sometimes drawing, solely run by Craig Atkinson and based in Southport, England. Café Royal Books produces small-run publications predominantly documenting social, historical and architectural change, often in Britain, using both new work and photographs from archives. It has been operating since 2005 and by mid 2014 had published about 200 books and zines and they are held in major public collections
https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/
Editions Bessard is a paris-based independent publishing house created by pierre bessard in 2011. Focusing on working with artists, writers and curators to realise intellectually challenging projects in book form.
https://www.editionsbessard.com/product-category/zine-collection/
Something to read:
EXTENSION > ARTISTS REFERENCES
Select at least one zine and analyse the photographer who made it, considering their work in more detail.
Follow these steps to success!
- Produce a mood board with a selection of images.
- Provide analysis of their work and explain why you have chosen them and how it relates to your current project
- Select at least 2 key images and analyse in depth using this methodology: TECHNICAL > VISUAL > CONTEXTUAL > CONCEPTUAL
- Incorporate quotes and comments from artist themselves or others (art critics, art historians, curators, writers, journalists etc) using a variety of sources such as Youtube, online articles, reviews, text, books etc.
- Make sure you reference sources and embed links to the above sources in your blog post
NARRATIVE > SEQUENCING
Write a specification and describe in detail what your ZINE will be about in terms of narrative, concept and design. Produce a mood-board of design ideas and consider the following:
Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:
- 3 words
- A sentence
- A paragraph
Sequencing: The order of your images
- Produce a blog post where you evaluate your first sequence of images, reflect on what story you are trying to communicate and how you can improve and develop your narrative.
- Edit 20-30 images down to an ordered series of 10-15 images.
- Think about start, middle and end images.
- Think about your theme or subject.
- Think about visual relationship between images and their juxtaposition e.g colour, shapes, subject, repetition, landscape, portrait, object etc.
- What happens or changes over the series of images?
- Are you using your best images?
Week 6: 8 – 14 July
Design and Layout
Complete the following blog posts
DEVELOP > EXPERIMENT
Design: How you want your zine to look and feel, in terms of :
- Format, size and orientation
- Design and layout
- Rhythm and sequencing
- Narrative and visual concept
- Title and cover
- Images and text
- Use of other design elements or inserts: archives, montages, graphics, typography
Experimenting: Show variation of designs
- Create 3 examples of alternative layouts for your zine using Adobe InDesign and complete a visual blog post that clearly shows your decision making and design process using print-screens or save each page-spread as a JPEG.
- Make sure you annotate!
Week 7: 15 – 17 July
Print and Present
Complete the following blog posts
EVALUATE > PRESENT
Presentation: Print, fold and bind final zine and hand in for assessment.
Evaluation:
Write an overall final evaluation (250-500 words) that explain in some detail how successfully you explored the Bunker Archaeology project. Considerthe following:
- Did you realise your intentions?
- What did you learn?
- Zine; including any contextual references, links and inspiration between your final design and theme, incl artists references.
DEADLINE: Wed 17 July
PHOTO-ASSIGNMENT > SUMMER STUDY
You should return to your bunker area or choose other locations with remnants of German fortifications in the Jersey landscape. See our book in class: Jersey War Walks with details of suggested areas in each Parish of the island.
- Produce at least one if not two photo-shoots!
- Review and evaluate your shoot, identity weaknesses and strength Plan and re-visit for a new shoot that adds value to what you already have.
Link to map of bunkers in Jersey
You have to ask yourself:
Am I satisfied that I have enough images/ material?
What are you going to do differently on next shoot?
How are you going to develop your ideas?
Your photo-zine is a final outcome that will be assessed as part of your Personal Investigation (coursework) giving you marks based on skills, knowledge and understanding of photography as a tool for communication in narrative, sequence and design
FAMILY ARCHIVES > SUMMER STUDY
1. Explore your own family/ personal archives over and make a blog post with some of the material and describe how it will inform and develop your Personal Investigation. Ask parents, grand-parents and other family members to look through photo-albums, letters, boxes etc.
2. Plan at least one photo-shoot and make a set of images that respond to your research above and/ or Personal Investigation on the Occupation of Jersey.
Deadline: Bring your new set of images and any research material from exploring family archives into class on Wed 4 Sept.