We had a discussion time to make a decision choosing a topic for our group project. On the second week we were challenged to create a zine which according to Merriam Dictionary is a ‘homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.’ The topic that we choose is food from around the world. You can see that we are 5 members in the group, so there are five different types of food from 5 different countries. We were indirectly trying to explore the food from our countries, how it is made and what people like about it especially ingredients that were used. The food we were looking at in our zines is food from our home countries our native food the one our ancestors grew up with. We had a great time as well because It enables us to develop a sense of cooperation via creating a zine. We ultimately noticed the goals of zines or magazine and how they attract public attention and we also had an experience the job which is associated with print presses because zines are created by writers who design and shape them. Likewise, we made a zine by suggesting our own idea. That is, it was definitely helpful making a zine through the activity to begin future plans.
ANA:
After the second week, we had to recreate this zine and turn it into a magazine, according to WordReference ‘A publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.’
We wanted to focus our food magazine specially to students. Our audience would be young people between 17 and 25 years old, specially for those students in Universities because we would like to sell our magazines there.
Times are changing all the time, and every day more students share lectures with a lot of different cultures, so much more than years ago. We thought that could be very interesting to enter and investigate about the cultural wealth with the purpose of understood and learn more about our companions.
The topic food was chosen because two main reasons: the first one because ‘Young people 16 to 24-year-olds spend more on food than any other age group’ as Emily Dugan said on the Independent, and the second one it’s because food varies widely from country to country, and we can understand more about the traditions and cultures.
With the help of different sections we want to go through one side of the world to the other one, also including specially sections to interact with our audience, such us ‘Tell us your favorite food’, ‘How did you cook it?’, ‘Recipes of the month’, ‘Questions and answers’…
ALVIN:
Zines are produced by a single individual or a very compact group. Through research we are able to know that zines first made an appearance in the United States, which is also where the photocopier was invented in 1947 and have always been a lot there.
The primary role of zines was to advance the views of the producer rather than profit. Zines have served as a useful and reliable means of communication in various social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behaviour and beliefs and the social group gain creativity from a do it yourself reasoning.
Zines can be written in range of formats; print is the most popular zine format usually recreated with a compact flow. Subjects that are discussed or analysed are big including politics, poetry, art and design social theory and personal journals etc.
Zines are mostly referred to as self-publications, inspired by a wish for self-expression not for profit
DELTA:
In this magazines we are gonna talk about their history in short terms how they were made. It says that before creating zines or magazines you first have to talk about the ideas you are going to put it is quite easier when two or more people gather and combine all their ideas and put some content in the magazines. Elke Zobl, 2004, says that zines exist back then when people began to write, self-publishing and copy in general the zines are self-publication, it was the time when Martin Luther king had created his own zine called Ninety-five Theses. Magazines are associated together with self-publishing and people employed had to make collages, bricolages of some zines images which also has a major influence on the magazines editor and in the 1990s people started creating their own zines just to have something creative like a book that contains everything and every detail, later on they will put the zines on exhibition (Elke Zobl, 2004).
Here is an example of a zine girls created by the girls back in 1991 when there was a riot between the united states and them for having a misconception of the music scene about the girls or feminist theory which caused them to go ahead and create zines and articles this was not only shouting at the world because of their music scene but just to teach themselves and the world how to make zines and also how to use the instruments(Elke zobl 2004). This girls movement helped them to have a good title on how they published it which was called the bikini kill and later on they changed it to ladies which targeted the people to know how to create zines.
AMÉLIE:
To conclude we can say that this artefact was really interesting to think of and to create. The paper base is unusual as a “newspaper” but also the topic of all of it : we could talk about the only thing that interested us and not as usual paper where there are plural topics to talk about. The fact that a zine is created by a “very compact group” is relevant of our work, we enjoyed working together. Food was for us one of the common topic that we could talk about in our zine, it is a part of us and a part of where we come from. The fact of being students is relevant of our work because food can be an issue for us : it can be too expensive to cook and some people are too lazy to cook something “ good” because it includes too many ingredients and too much money . We also had to create a magazine, still about food, but as we can see it is not anymore homemade, it is made with an laptop so the final version is completely different than the zine even if it is about the same topic.The zine seems more creative because it is handmade rather than the magazine which seems more professional, it is well more organized in the way that we are really writing about the topic and not in a “personal” way.. These two artefacts were pretty interesting to make and they reflect our topic in a complete way, the personal and “professional” way.
REFERENCES
GRACE(SURIM):
En.wikipedia.org. (2017). Zine. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine [Accessed 25 May 2017].
Merriam-webster.com. (2017). Definition of ZINE. [online] Available at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zine [Accessed 24 May 2017].
ANA:
Dugan, E. (2017). 16 to 24-year-olds 'spend more on food than any other age group'. [online] The Independent. Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/16-to-24-year-olds-spend-more-on-food-than-any-other-age-group-says-research-a6678596.html [Accessed 23 May 2017].
Wordreference.com. (2017). magazine - WordReference.com Dictionary of English. [online] Available at: http://www.wordreference.com/definition/magazine [Accessed 23 May 2017].
ALVIN:
DELTA:
Word reference:Elke,Z.( April2004)zine history the zine network topics and teaching zines in
classrooms
[online] available at: http://grrrlzines.net/overview.htm[Accessed 23 may 2017].
[online] available at: http://grrrlzines.net/overview.htm[Accessed 23 may 2017].
AMÉLIE:
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