I am going to create a zine made up of my images from St Malo and AI pictures from the same source. A zine is like a magazine, only smaller and more focused. It is defined as a ‘self-published unique work of minority interest‘.

Narrative is the telling of a story. It is adaptable and perspective dependent, and therefore is a subjective process. Narrative is constructed when relationships between images (and/or text) are established, and the layout of these is key to the receiver’s understanding of the narrative.

What is my story?

In order to create my own zine I will need to come up with a story I wish to tell with my images. I think my images speak to a certain type of nostalgia. This was my objective and I think that in their cinematic nature (framing, editing, lighting) they have embodied this. Therefore I feel that I would most like to tell a story that is more subjective and reliant on the receiver’s interpretations, as this is the best way to ignite nostalgia as an abstract emotion. It relies on the receiver’s memories and the individual emotions attached to them. Below are some images I feel are the most nostalgic.

Narrative – How will I tell my story?

I plan to use the layout of the zine to display the images in as thoughtful an order as possible. I would like to arrange them in a series of groups; beach, street views, deadpan frames, colour – but this may be difficult as the orientation of these images differs.

I may also use text to aid description of sensual elements, as the senses are often key to nostalgic recollection.