Moodboard
Ideas
In my zine, I am showing images from my Oregon trip. After some thinking, I have decided to do multiple zines, with one showing more objective, ‘touristy’ type images, mainly of landscapes and architecture. I then plan to do one or two other zines with my more personal photos, which document a more personal journey through Oregon and reflect my experience more intimately. If I was to do a third zine, it would include mostly portraits, but at the moment I am just planning to do two.
Story and Narrative
What is your story? Describe in 3 words:
New, isolated, connected
A sentence:
My experience of an entirely different culture for the first time as a teenager.
A paragraph:
My story is that of an 18 year old navigating a new country for the first time, experiencing culture shock, meeting new people and visiting new places. My story documents my personal experiences of my trip to the USA, but also more common, touristic images. My story features different ideas, such as life in rural America, documenting cliques, landscapes, and as well as more personal portraits and other images which tell a story of my own experience.
Narrative: How will you tell your story?
I will tell my story through two zines, each with different sides to my trip. Firstly, I will use first zine to tell my personal experiences of the more typical American experiences, for example the landscapes and citizens. I will also tell the story of some societal issues I saw for myself on my trip, such as the mistreatment of Nstive Amercians. These aspects are not necessarily directly linked to my personal experiences as much, but things linked directly to the America which I experienced, and its issues.
After experiencing these things, I decided to do my own research on the issues that I saw, to ensure I knew more about what I was documenting. Even though this research was not carried out before I took my images, I think it informs the making of my zines. My interest in societal issues in America was also sparked by a book I read in my English class in the US, which is mostly the reason I decided to include my images documenting native american culture in my zine. This book taught me about the experiences of teenagers of a completely different culture to my own, which I didn’t have much idea of before I came to the USA. This book influened my choice to make a second zine, of my more personal, teenage experiences of my trip. I like how I have decided t do this, as it means I can produce a more personal and thoughtful outcome. There is a memory attached to each one of my pictures from my zines, and I like this. After carrying out my photoshoots, and editing my images using Lightroom, I will make collections of my images ready for the two different zines. From there, I will place my images into the zine, experimenting with different placement ideas and layouts.