2. PRINTING MY FANZINE
• At first, I was unsure on how I could make my project so I could show it to
other people. I knew I needed to get it printed but I couldn't decide which
online printing website to use, I decided to email around to see what the
best deals were. I emailed Quacks and Focus4Print companies to see what
there prices were going to be. Quacks responded with a price of £40 + vat
for 5 copies. Focus4Print never responded.
• I then went online to see what online companies could do, I looked at
Mixam.com which I researched before in my problem solving. I chose Mixam
as it was the cheaper option for more copies. Overall it cost £30.50 for 8
copies including printing. It was quick difficult to correct the bleed as it
needed to be 3mm along the pages. This was quite confusing to do, but
once I got my head around it, it was easy.
7. EVENTS/ SOCIAL MEDIA/ WEBSITES
• I decided to look at fanzine events near me, there is a York fanzine event in August. This is
something that I am interesting in as I think it would be a good way to get my way out
there as well as looking at other peoples fanzines. Nearer the time I will be able to sign up,
so I will see if I am free this day. I also created a Instagram for my fanzine, I started off by
following different feminist accounts and waited for them to follow me back. I decided that
I would create a logo for my fanzine as most of the feminists had their own logos. This took
a while but after I created it I was very happy with the finished product. I added some
photos from this fanzine as well as an image from my last fanzine that I created. I think
most of my target audience would be attracted to my fanzine on Instagram instead of
other social media platforms. I decided to add my fanzine onto issuu as this was another
way on how I could attract my target audience, the setting up of issuu was a little bit
confusing but once I had realised what I needed to do it was much easier. I am excited to
see where I can get my fanzine about and see how popular it could be.