I am overall very happy with the Zine I produced from this project. I think it represents my them of beauty in the mundane well. I think I was successful with my sequencing of work – taking a lot of inspiration from Rinko Kawauchi’s approach to juxtaposition.
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I am overall very happy with the Zine I produced from this project.
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Paris Film Tryptic
Zine Final
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I want to create an A5 zine in a booklet format with a smaller A6 zine inside. I want the zine to explore our receptions of beauty and flow visually throughout the book. I plan to use more unnatural images from the party photoshoot beside my Rinko Kawauchi inspired photographs of nature. I plan on calling this zine ‘Irridiant’ – meaning to emit light as a lot of my photos focused on light. Alongside to smaller zine insert I will also add my cyanotype experiments to help break up the pages and serve as visual and formatting differentiation keeping the zine interesting.
Mimosa’s in Bloom by Rita Costa was an inspiration for this zine as I enjoy her use of negative space to frame her images – the themes behind her images also interest my and I think fit well with my over all project.
Photographic Treatment is a series of 5 photobooks by Laurence Aegerter I like her approach to juxtaposing her images and creating pages spreads that both flow visually and tell a story.
I made a smaller second zine to fit inside my larger main one This Zine is printed at A6 as opposed to A5 so I can slot it in-between pages, I also plan on adding my Paris film prints and cyanotypes into the pages.
Here is my final short animation film
Using Premiere Pro to sequence images.
Here is my completed short animation film
I plan on making a single section zine – adding smaller inserts into the pages via stitching + Collage. I plan to bind the back of this book myself so I have the freedom to add pages and new images.
When thinking about the layout of my zine I want to take inspiration from Kawauchi’s Photobooks specifically her juxtapositions and parallels between pages. She often pairs images by shapes as I have attempted to do here by paring two photographs that have multiple diagonal leading lines.
I decided that the square format images would be too small on an already small Zine – I feel it leave too much empty space.
Looking at layouts for writing on first few pages.
Whilst I like this Experiment I feel it looks unrealistic and almost ‘pop art’ I think it moves too far from the idea of natural and mundane beauty.
