Zine Collaboration: Production

As part of Olivia's role within the collaboration she handled the production, printing and binding the zine. In relation to my role within the production process, I finalised the pagination of the zine making sure the dialogue (least to most popular attractions) was correct so the printing process would be simple and straight forward. However upon reviewing the final zine (see figure 1-4) we both felt the quality of the photos was too low (see figure 4), leading me to increase the resolution of each image in Photoshop too see if this would improve the quality of the print. Despite increasing the resolution when a test print (see figure 5) was completed in digital print the resolution didn't improve, resulting in the first zine being used for submission. The low quality of the photos is attributed to the photos being screenshot of Instagram posts as this was the only way Olivia could gain content that was relevant to her other COP work to make the zine relevant. Therefor if more time was available we could go back to each post and download the images to see if this would increase the quality further, however due to the time pressure (two days) and the need to be ready for Olivia's deadline this was not possible as it would of taken Olivia too long with the added disadvantaged of not having each images Instagram name being some couldn't be found.

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