Today I met with Mike and shared the mock ups that I had created to get his feedback on what he thought of the zines current state. Most of the feedback was positive but there were a few things that needed to be addressed to make a more successful zine with a consistent style.
The first one was that I should not include the type from the 35mm exposures alone without any imagery. Although these are main influences of the aesthetic and house style, they don't belong alone with no context in the zine. He stated that one good part was the page where it shows sections of the image and then the next page is the whole exposure with the frame. I should focus on doing this more with these straggler frames.
Another thing to address was this page in the photoautomat zine. We decided that it shouldn't show the photo booth strip separately, but all together as one. This is because they all came together on one strip, not separately and I should not tamper with the form of the imagery because non of the others in this zine have been.
Finally, we agreed that we could stretch the zines to 24 pages instead of 20, meaning more content could be made of the images and the zines could reach their full potential. Mike has now began budgeting and figuring out how many we will want to print and how much it'll all cost. He is also going to test printing on several different paper stocks to see which one is the most successful print. We decided that it would be an uncoated paper stock because the imagery has all been uncovered after many years of storage, so we wanted to replicate this old and tattered feeling through the stock. We had to be careful which one we printed on however because we wanted the images to have great quality. This is why Mike was testing on several different stocks.
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