What about a end of year collaborative Zine?

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So I had this idea that maybe we could produce an end of year F&C zine.

Get as many of us to contribute maybe 2 pictures and a little blurb about them.

No set theme, just wonderful pictures by the talented folk in the film community.

We could even try to sell for charity if we all use our social medias.

What do you thing?

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I am happy to edit the zine (not realising what I'm letting myself in for )
 
MrDrizz said:
So I had this idea that maybe we could produce an end of year F&C zine.

Get as many of us to contribute maybe 2 pictures and a little blurb about them.

No set theme, just wonderful pictures by the talented folk in the film community.

We could even try to sell for charity if we all use our social medias.

What do you thing?

P.S.
I am happy to edit the zine (not realising what I'm letting myself in for )
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I'd be happy to contribute. (y) Will keep an eye out for more detail.
 
That sounds like a good idea, count me in.
 
I'd be in.
 
Me too, I'll make an effort to do so. Great idea, and I'm happy if the TP logo appears somewhere on it too!
 
Including at least the monthly winning shots from FPOTY would seem to be a plan, so that is at least one from me. Will flag this in FPOTY discussion thread.
 
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@dmb that's not a bad idea. We'd have to figure out how we fit those in.

My initial idea was to give everyone a 2 page spread.

How do you feel about it being A4 size?
 
MrDrizz said:
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@dmb that's not a bad idea. We'd have to figure out how we fit those in.

My initial idea was to give everyone a 2 page spread.

How do you feel about it being A4 size?
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I'm a Zine virgin so will go with whatever the more experienced Ziners advise. Does 2 page spread mean 2 images? Mine will almost certainly be square aspect ratios.
 
Good idea I would be keen to participate.
 
Topsy said:
I'm a Zine virgin so will go with whatever the more experienced Ziners advise. Does 2 page spread mean 2 images? Mine will almost certainly be square aspect ratios.
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The 2 pages are yours to do with as you please. As many or as few images as you like.
Maybe one page is a contact sheet with the selected pictures on the other.
 
My suggestion would be to keep it simple.

A5 would make the posting & such more manageable, both if you decide to sell on, and/or post.

A double page spread sounds good to me. Again, my suggestion would be a portrait format book so that with a double page spread, each person would have an A4 (landscape) sheet.

To make your life easy, I'd suggest each person submit you with their 2-page-pdf which you can then arrange. I guess some people won't be able to do that, in which case you'll need them to submit images and some sort of design idea as well as the text. If you get a lot of people doing this, I'd be happy to help do "2 page spreads" for people. Depending on the number of people entering, you could consider upping to 4 pages maybe?

All suggestions... :)
 
I have to say if the Zine is portrait format, then that would not work for me.
 
Harlequin565 said:
My suggestion would be to keep it simple.

A5 would make the posting & such more manageable, both if you decide to sell on, and/or post.

A double page spread sounds good to me. Again, my suggestion would be a portrait format book so that with a double page spread, each person would have an A4 (landscape) sheet.

To make your life easy, I'd suggest each person submit you with their 2-page-pdf which you can then arrange. I guess some people won't be able to do that, in which case you'll need them to submit images and some sort of design idea as well as the text. If you get a lot of people doing this, I'd be happy to help do "2 page spreads" for people. Depending on the number of people entering, you could consider upping to 4 pages maybe?

All suggestions... :)
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Excellent suggestions.

At this rate we could end up with a book
 
medwaygreen said:
I have to say if the Zine is portrait format, then that would not work for me.
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I guess your preferred aspect is landscape?

I know it's not ideal but people could still turn the zine sideway
 
I'd love to participate in this. I know I haven't been contributing much to the "Show us yer..." thread in the past year, but I still do care deeply about F&C!

I'd be happy with a double page spread in a portrait zine, assuming that means 2 portrait shots or one landscape spread would be possible?
 
ChrisR said:
I'd love to participate in this. I know I haven't been contributing much to the "Show us yer..." thread in the past year, but I still do care deeply about F&C!

I'd be happy with a double page spread in a portrait zine, assuming that means 2 portrait shots or one landscape spread would be possible?
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You can layout your pages anyway you like. As many on your spread as you want.

Unless the consensus is we limit everyone to a set number of pictures?

I should also mention that is is open to colour or B&W but is limited to classic photography media.
 
MrDrizz said:
Unless the consensus is we limit everyone to a set number of pictures?
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I would merely limit the space and let people use it how they want. Collage or single image across both pages.

As for costs...

For ease of "working it all out", option A would be ordering a box, then dividing by the number of contributors to get a rough amount each.

e.g. Box of 30 (36 page) A5 zines in colour with decent (170gsm) paper & (glossy) cover at £50 delivered to you. 15 contributors = 2 zines each. With P&P at (eg) £4 per person, that would be about £7 per person. (A4 is about £75)

A box of 60 of the same is about £75 delivered which would give 4 zines per person for about £10

90 is about £105 which is 6 copies for about £13 (more zines = more postage and maybe more packing)

Option B would be to take order volumes from each contributor then make an order to cover that. Postage would be different for everyone, as would the "zine cost" and packing might be a pain. Would create more work for you, but would make buying flexible :)

Decisions to be made that affect the cost...
- A4 or A5
- Page count & weight (likely be dictated by number of contributors, 2 pages per person + intro + back page)
- Colour or B&W
- Cover, fancy cover, or no cover.
- Number of copies

Personally, I'd prefer
A5, colour, with cover (fancy or not), 2-5 copies but happy to have an equal share of the order.

And a question: I was thinking I'd quite like a copy of the finished pdf so I can reprint if I lose my zines, or want to make a book (for personal use). How do people feel about this? Do we want just physical copies then have the pdf destroyed?
 
Personally I'd suggest the first one or two be digital and see how it goes - but I may be missing the point as I'm unfamiliar with zines.
 
MrDrizz said:
I hadn't even thought about cost.

Do all agree to buy a set amount each??
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Harlequin565 said:
I would merely limit the space and let people use it how they want. Collage or single image across both pages.

As for costs...

For ease of "working it all out", option A would be ordering a box, then dividing by the number of contributors to get a rough amount each.

e.g. Box of 30 (36 page) A5 zines in colour with decent (170gsm) paper & (glossy) cover at £50 delivered to you. 15 contributors = 2 zines each. With P&P at (eg) £4 per person, that would be about £7 per person. (A4 is about £75)

A box of 60 of the same is about £75 delivered which would give 4 zines per person for about £10

90 is about £105 which is 6 copies for about £13 (more zines = more postage and maybe more packing)

Option B would be to take order volumes from each contributor then make an order to cover that. Postage would be different for everyone, as would the "zine cost" and packing might be a pain. Would create more work for you, but would make buying flexible :)

Decisions to be made that affect the cost...
- A4 or A5
- Page count & weight (likely be dictated by number of contributors, 2 pages per person + intro + back page)
- Colour or B&W
- Cover, fancy cover, or no cover.
- Number of copies

Personally, I'd prefer
A5, colour, with cover (fancy or not), 2-5 copies but happy to have an equal share of the order.

And a question: I was thinking I'd quite like a copy of the finished pdf so I can reprint if I lose my zines, or want to make a book (for personal use). How do people feel about this? Do we want just physical copies then have the pdf destroyed?
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I'm happy to contribute to the costs also, I would probably only want 1 copy myself. I would, like Ian, like a copy of the final PDF so I can electronically save the work for myself (no intention of getting other prints done). I also think if Ian's guide prices are right I'd be happy to go full share of the costs. I think it would be prudent once all submissions are in to get a quote for us so we can commit finally to the costs.
 
I'd be up for this too, although like ChrisR I have't shot a great deal this year I'm sure I could find some to be included.
 
MrDrizz said:
Guys I'm thinking more like end of 2022.
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How about images from 2021 in a Zine produced by say March next year?

Mixam (as an example) only do test prints in portrait format but do full print runs in either landscape, portrait or square which might affect your thinking. I think a square format might work and then people can do what they like with their 2 pages. A single photo across two pages is more work because of the gutter unless people are happy to loose a bit from the middle of their image.

I'd say keep it simple with a square zine in which people get two pages for two images, one on each page, which can be either portrait, landscape or square
 
sirch said:
How about images from 2021 in a Zine produced by say March next year?
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I'd have to count myself out,
not shot anything this year worse sh*t
 
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Sounds fine Mark. Why don't you start a thread in the Competitions & Challenges forum for this? That might potentially encourage newbies to crustyism to participate.
 
lindsay said:
Sounds fine Mark. Why don't you start a thread in the Competitions & Challenges forum for this? That might potentially encourage newbies to crustyism to participate.
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Good idea.
 
lindsay said:
Sounds fine Mark. Why don't you start a thread in the Competitions & Challenges forum for this? That might potentially encourage newbies to crustyism to participate.
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But is it a competition or a challenge?
 
simon ess said:
The full title of that forum is "Competitions, Community Challenges & Inspiration."

I reckon Inspiration covers it.

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Well that makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing that out Simon, I stand corrected :D
 
Having just produced my first solo zine for the zine swap, Id like to add my name to this.

I've been lucky to be involved with two collaborative book/zine over the last couple of years. The first was called the Kodak 2238 Project, where that was around 27 photographers shooting the same film stock to produce the book. The second was The Covid Sweats an A4 Zine with about 55 photographers from around the world, showing how Covid was affects us in the early days of the pandemic.

2238_edit by George Griffin, on Flickr

covid_edit by George Griffin, on Flickr

spread1_edit by George Griffin, on Flickr

spread2_edit by George Griffin, on Flickr

spread3_edit by George Griffin, on Flickr

spread4_edit by George Griffin, on Flickr

Some images to show how these zines were laid out.
 
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