[MEMORIESZINE] Final Outcome

Took me around 2 weeks of designing as I was busy with internship work as well. On the third week was production week and it was a surprise that it only took jet tech 3 days to finish the zines and postcards, both mine and sonja's. Now we had 1.5 week's time to photoshoot the products. As planned, we went to a friend's place as her house is really spacious with a lot of spots suitable for photo shooting.

Failed ones 

As both of us are not good photographers, we tried a lot of different camera settings and took tonnes fo failed ones. Some were too dark, some were not aligned, some were overly exposed. Luckily, our friends who lended us the space is good at photography, she taught us different camera settings when taking pictures with flash. Some good ones were taken after many failed attempts. It made it even harder to take with flash as we both chose glossy paper for our zines. 

Too dark 

Over exposed

Good ones 

Edited ones 

We didn't go wild on the editing process as the good ones took fine to us and fitted the Instagram feed. We just tuned them brighter and added shadow to make details pop up more. 

We edited them based on the mock of our instagram feed. As we thought feed is the most important thing when it comes to the first impression of Instagram accounts. We went for a bright and colourful feed that does not. have a significant colour palette. The feed was really subtle but each cover photo is coherent and ties well each other. 

Thoughts 

Everything kind of stuck to plan as what we scheduled in the shared google document. I think the process of zine and postcard making was the smoothest among all the products be made for the market. The whole process of finishing the zines and postcards took us around 3 whole weeks including the product shooting part as expected, and I was glad. I also learnt a lot on preparation before printing and preparing printing pdfs for final printing. To be honest the process of file amending and talking to the printing place staff was really stressing me out as it literally took us 3 hours at the place talking to them from afternoon till evening. But it was all worth it and I was glad that uni actually taught us a lot in file prep for printing, the techniques that I learnt really did apply well in the actual process.