Monday, 30 April 2012

E-mail sent to newspaper club

" Very interested in getting my new project printed by the newspaper club.
The newspaper will be about ten images and maybe some text. I was looking for about 5 colour copies.
My deadline is May 17th so I was wondering, in your opinion, when I should send my images off to you as I've been disappointed by other companies in the past by late deliveries despite leaving a good week between dispatch date and deadline date.
Also, if there is time, can I request a sample newspaper?

Thanks and hope to hear from you guys soon!

Sally Harris "

Back in the game

I'm back to this project after the nightmare that was Institutions. I've also been ill yet again and still am under doctors orders to 'rest'...

I've got the ball rolling by sending an e-mail to the newspaper club and have also requested a sample newspaper.

Monday, 9 April 2012

Newspaper Club

Newspaper club is a company that use the newspaper printers out-of-hours (which is most of the day). I was thinking about using this company to print for my final presentation. Due to the cost, I'm not sure how many I'd wish to print. I was thinking about emulating a fan scrap book with my own images as newspaper clippings. So I'd only have to get one printed then frame them in a haphazardly way.
I think I'll look into fan collections now.. Hmm..

Feedback from formative review

I had quite a decent formative review. I was incredibly nervous that no one will get the idea straight away but as soon as I started the slideshow, people were guessing who I was emulating in the images. The audience guessed correctly all the images that I thought no one would guess which was probably the best feedback I could get.
Now I need to figure out my final presentation of the work itself.
  • Originally I was thinking of hand printing 'zines' to reference the music zines of the 70's and 80's. I could print a stack of them and have them for people to take away as well as have a film playing. 
  • Another idea I had whilst sat in the formative review was to go back to where I sorted the images themselves on Google image search. I would display the images in a similar fashion to the way they are presented on Google image search, with larger images as the more relevant images to the search content. 
  • The idea I had earlier today was that I could send 'Newspaper Club' a copy of what I would want printed and have a run of newspapers printed instead of zines. A newspaper would heavily reference the celebrity culture that is the main subject of the work. I am favouring this idea at the moment.
I'm going to order a few zines and also order a sample newspaper from newspaper club and go from there. !