Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Final Product!
We completed our newspaper!
Printed onto newsprint paper which gives it a good, handmade feel and made using the risograph which was a valuable learning experience with a technology I would like to work with in the future more often.
Overall, I am pleased with our paper although I think we could have been a little more prepared and printed a week earlier as we had originally planned. At times I found it difficult to work in a group as not everyone was at the same stage at the same time which made the digital compilation and printing process more difficult. I also did not want to come across as pushy to people who were behind others in the creation process. I think if we had discussed our individual pages with the group more then we could have produced a more professional and cohesive looking paper because stylistically it looks very different from page to page.
Printing and Compiling
We used the risograph printer to make our publication using blue and black for the content and red and black for the cover. It was very helpful having the master copies printed last week as it meant we were prepared to start straight away today so the printing process only took about an hour to make 20 copies. (Whilst using the risograph I learned the correct ways to input paper so that the pages will be double sided and the right way around.)
Compiling the paper was therefore very simple as we decided against stapling so we just folded the paper in half to make the pages. We had originally thought it would take the whole day to print but it was much faster than we expected which was a bonus.
Monday, 12 December 2016
Chat (discussion) Log
- Sarah Cousinsi had a look on pinterest for some design ideas
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- Kay O'SheaJaz got email addresses from artists and organisers at the fair so we can email themAnd ask them questions
- Jasmine PalmerWhat about thinking of a name for the newspaper. Cause I think she wanted us to have a name by this wee
- Sarah Cousinsit'll be hard to think of one before we know what to put in it
- Jasmine PalmerTrue..Well are you guys going to be in the studio tomorrow
- Sarah Cousinsyep
- Jasmine PalmerCause we could do a mini meeting
- Kay O'SheaYichi, did you have an idea on your double page as Jaz is thumbnailing it just to see if there is a theme that could link it all together
- Yichi ZhangI might make a page of cooking and still no ideal of another page
- Yichi ZhangIn addition ,We could use the print skill that we learned in the last semester to design our text such as Wood or Metal words print.
- Kay O'SheaGood idea, probably work better for headlines as it is time consuming
- Jasmine Palmerwe made a mock up of how many pages we need which i can show you tomorrow
:)
- Kay O'SheaOkie doke
- Yichi Zhangokthanks team
- Jasmine PalmerNo worries
:) see you tomorrow guys!
- 5 October
- Kay O'SheaWas working on this that we can use to plan against. I can bring my laptop in tomorrow or Friday so you can fill in your parts??If it's a terrible idea let me know.just thought it might be worth having everyones plans group together so we could all know where each other is at with their work??
- Sarah Cousinsthat looks good to me! great job on that table
- Jasmine PalmerNice one Kay! Looks fabKay I forgot that tomorrow we can do the morning or afternoon session so I'm coming in at 1pm maybe a little earlier
- 7 October
- Sarah Cousinsmight be good for the map idea bc it ties in well
- Jasmine Palmerooh this sounds cool!i want to go to all this places
- Sarah CousinsikrI'm trying to find events in UK to do with comics/zines . any ideas?actually I've probably found enough nvm
- Jasmine PalmerBristol comic conventionShake in Bristol. Thought bubble, MCM in many different citiesI'll have a look for some more tomorrow. I was an idiot and I left my laptop charger at uni
- Sarah CousinsOK thank
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- 8 October
- Jasmine PalmerWhat if we did this for the interviews. Like a little picture of the personSo we can add more of our illustrations
- Sarah Cousinsthat's a good idea!
- Jasmine PalmerJust thought this was funnyAnd thanks
:) about the idea
- Sarah Cousinsdo you still have that rough plan of the pages we're each doing? can u send a pic pls?
- Jasmine PalmerThe arrows between contents and about is cause you and Yichi can decide between yourselves which you'd rather do to make it up to 2 double page spreads
- Sarah Cousinsokay and for each of the others its only a single page right?
- Jasmine PalmerOn your section yes. But you need to put the true believers stuff on a double page spread. Cause of the way we will print it. It doesn't really matter right now cause we can do layout later but it might be easier? I dunno
- Sarah Cousinsyep that's fine! I just need to think of how much I can put on a page
- Jasmine PalmerOkidoki
:)
- 10 October
- Jasmine PalmerI don't know if you guys are still thinking of going in today but I won't be coming. Just so you know
- Sarah CousinsI think we're pretty up to date anyway so probably don't need a meeting
- 19 October
- Kay O'Sheayichi, have you done anything for the design board?
- Yichi Zhangnothing yetcould you guys send me any thing you would like to put on this board than I can do it
- Jasmine PalmerAre you in tomorrow morning?
- Yichi Zhangyes Im in afternoon group do you want meet earlyI am ok tomorow morning so we can discuss it
- 20 October
- Sarah Cousinsok so i didnt manage to get it printed bc all the printers were out of inki can get it done tomorrow morning tho
- Jasmine PalmerAw noo. Hopefully the ink will be fine tomorrow
:) thanks Sarah
- Sarah Cousinsi also changed the font a little bit, i hope thats okay?
- Jasmine PalmerYeah looks niceI just realised I spelt 2 words Wrong on the first paragraphLooking and differentCause I wasn't looking when I was typing
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- Sarah Cousinsi can edit it tomorrow
:)
- Jasmine PalmerThank you
- Kay O'Sheawould any of you be able to send me all the scans for today that were used on the design board? im trying to back date all my blog posts
- Kay O'SheaThanks so much yichi
:)
- Yichi Zhangthat is fine
- 25 October
- Sarah Cousinsthe poster got printed (with the spelling mistakes) but we've got two so if anyone wants one they can.
- Jasmine PalmerThanks Sarah!!
- Sarah Cousinsanother one might get printed with the correct spelling if they replace the ink. so we might en up with three by the end of the week
- Jasmine PalmerSick
- 3 November
- Kay O'SheaJust had a thought as I was chatting to Kieron, Jaz do you reckon I should ask Sheralyn about cosplaying at comic con??
- Jasmine PalmerYeah sureShe cosplays every year
- 4 November
- 12 November
- Sarah Cousins(i can make changes to colour and type)
- Kay O'SheaThat looks so cool
- Jasmine PalmerLooks great Sarah
:)
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- Sarah Cousinsi can change the font or colour if we choose differently
- Yichi Zhangcool
- Sarah Cousinsfinishing up inktobers and I've written the 'upcoming events' pageI need to edit the photos for true believers too and then the content is done for that as well
- Jasmine PalmerNice.
:) tomorrow I'm going to do some thumbnails for the cover.
I've just had an idea - Jasmine PalmerWe have to print the newspaper is due on like the 15th or something right? And semi nice is on the 11th and we want to print like a week before hand in right? What if I ask the semi nice people if they don't mind me designing an advert for the semi nice fair and putting it on the back cover
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- Jasmine PalmerAnd then maybe we could low key sell some at semi nice if we print out extras after our edition of 10Just an ideaLet me know what you think
- Sarah Cousinsyeah that could be a good idea
:)
we could maybe sell some at semi nice then:D
- Jasmine PalmerExactly!
- Sarah Cousinsalso did we decide on two colours for the whole paper or smth? (just need to know for colour separations)
- Jasmine PalmerI can't remember what we decidedI think 2 colours is probably best
- Sarah Cousinslike the same throughout?
- Jasmine PalmerYeah?
- Sarah CousinsI think black + smth else
- Jasmine PalmerLike I think it would be good to have the same throughout. But then it also might be good to change it up so the pages are a bit more separate ?Definitely black
- Sarah Cousinsif they're the same it makes it look more uniform
- Jasmine PalmerMaybe red or blue I thinkYeah I know
- Sarah CousinsyeI don't mind which. why do other people think?
- 18 November
- Sarah Cousinsfound a cool font called 'Kredit' in ps - what do you think?
- Kay O'SheaHonestly, I'm not a fan, but if the others like it, I'm okay with using it
- Sarah Cousinsdo you have any that i can try?
- Kay O'SheaNo not yet. It's only my personal opinion. As long as we all agree on a font and compromise with each other I don't mind what gets used
- Sarah Cousinsit doesn't have to be the same for each page - maybe we could use the same font for the body text tho
- Jasmine PalmerI think it's alright
- Sarah Cousinsdo you think it works with the text? it's hard to decide
- Jasmine PalmerHow is the picture going to be coloured, cause I worry that it can't be easily read
- Sarah Cousinsit will be red/black probablyi can alter the text so it's more visible
- Jasmine PalmerMaybe do the colour separations and see how it looksIt's up to you at the end of the day
- Sarah Cousins(probably would be more brightly coloured)not sure i like it
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- Jasmine PalmerYeah I dunno . Maybe it could just be red ? Though I dunno cause only up to 50% grey shoesShows
- Sarah Cousinsi have no idea what i'm doingmore white space looks good tho i think
- 28 November
- Kay O'SheaRough idea at the moment, thinking I might draw each illustration out individually so that I can play around with the layout a little bit
- Jasmine PalmerLooks cool Kay.
- 29 November
- Kay O'SheaSo Sarah and I were chatting yesterday and thinking that we should print the newspaper on Tuesday 6th December??
- 30 November
- Kay O'SheaMy drawings are taking forever to neaten up on photoshop
😫 I'm thinking I might have to try a different way so that is quicker
- Sarah Cousinsdon't worry about them being too neat - i'm happy to help on friday / weekend
- Kay O'SheaI thought back to when you were cutting out the fish on coloured paper and I'm trying something like that now. Seems to be working at the moment
- Sarah Cousinssounds cool
:) good luck with it
- Kay O'Sheathis is what I was thinking of
- Sarah Cousinsthat looks great! very bold
- Kay O'SheaIt's just an idea atm might work on fading it a bit, but I can't remember what the colours on riso look like when it's at it's boldest
- Jasmine Palmerthe blue is quite a bit lighter
- Sarah CousinsI think the blue is more greenish
- Kay O'Sheayeah I thought that, just playing around
- Jasmine Palmercool cool
:)
- 2 December
- Sarah CousinsKay pls can I have an 'about' paragraph from you?
- Kay O'SheaBear with because I have nothing written down. Sorry haven't been on my phone for a couple of hours. What has everyone else put?? Don't want to put anything too similar
- Jasmine PalmerI might as well just work for semi nice
- Sarah Cousinsget paid bruh - it looks hella
- Jasmine PalmerAdded some snow
- Sarah CousinsHECK
- Jasmine PalmerI'm so proud of myself. Now it's time to eat
- Jasmine PalmerShe said sage loved it
😀 yay. So that page is finished
- Sarah Cousinsgreat job!
- Kay O'Sheaso I was thinking of doing a cosplayers tips section and I was going to include an illustration of a light bulb. what about doing something inspired by this and having the 'tips and tricks' bit inside the light bulb.https://pixabay.com/en/love-idea-light-bulb-enlightenment-1301373/
- Jasmine PalmerSounds good to me
:)
- Kay O'Sheayeah ill probably draw it out tomorrow. left my paper downstairs and I cant be bothered to get off my bed
- Jasmine PalmerFair play
- Kay O'SheaA rough idea at the moment
- Jasmine PalmerI like it
:)
- 3 December
- Sarah Cousinshere's the about page so far - should i include an intro the newspaper as well?
- Jasmine PalmerYeah you could do
- 3 December
- Jasmine PalmerCute!
- Sarah Cousins
👌 just waiting on Kay's thingy
- Kay O'SheaOkay I've got this: I'm Kay and I enjoy watching films and reading. At the moment I quite like drawing penguins.It's random but oh well
- Sarah Cousinsthat's fine. thank u!
- Kay O'SheaSorry it took a while was getting Dolores work done
- Sarah Cousinsyeah no worries - i'm free to compile stuff now I think
- Tuesday
- Jasmine PalmerWhat colour are we doing the pages guys
- Tuesday
- Kay O'Sheaanyone know how to do the colour separation for photographs for the riso?? just trying to finish off the pages
- Sarah Cousinsi lust made the photo b/w then added the colour with a block tone
- Kay O'Sheaokie doke
- Sarah Cousinsi can help tomorrow if you need it
- Kay O'Sheacool
- Kay O'Sheagonna try and make a list of all the blog posts we are going to need. any suggestions will be helpful
:)
- Sarah Cousinsi can bring in the sheet Georgie gave us
- Kay O'Sheayeah I looked at the sheet just trying to fill in the gaps
- Wednesday
- Wednesday
- Wednesday
- Jasmine PalmerPictures to use on blogs if you want
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