This document provides a personal evaluation of Rachel O'Connell's final fanzine product. Rachel expresses that she is very happy with how her fanzine turned out, feeling it included all the components she wanted in terms of aesthetic, design, and content. She notes each section has a different style and theme, which was her original aim. Rachel also feels her fanzine combines many of her skills into one product and explores things that interest her personally, making it a very successful product overall.

1. Evaluation
Rachel O’Connell

2. Personal Statement
I am very happy with my final product. It has every component that I wanted to
include, in terms of aesthetic, design and content. Each section has a different style
and theme, which is what I was aiming for originally. I like that some portions of my
fanzine look a bit wild and out there, the purpose of it was to do that, to attract
attention from the audience and (if the fanzine was a real product) have that be part
of the marketing and one of the quirks that would give it a personality. I think it
combines a lot of my skills into one product, and explores a lot of different things that
I find interesting or that are personal to me. For all of these reasons I think that this
was a very successful product.

3. Research

4. Content
•I think I did some good content research, I explored both style and content within the research document. I looked at specifically indie
fanzines, mostly unrelated to film, but all had specific styles and an image they wanted to project. Their layouts were all different,
however they were all colourful, intuitive and creative. It was the embodiment of what I wanted to create, so I feel like that part of the
research was good. This research laid a lot of the groundwork for the image I wanted to go for and how I wanted to project this image
from a company and marketable perspective and also a consumer perspective. In my personal opinion, I enjoy things that are a little out
there or maybe look strange or don’t follow a certain ‘formulaic’ look, so I wanted to create something that appealed to me. I feel like
this research helped me develop this idea and gave me a lot of inspiration that helped.
•I also looked at a couple of YouTube videos that covered what I wanted to create in terms of the article content, these videos explored
the meanings behind a film or TV show, or explored what it meant for a film to be good. Watching Mark Kermode's video on what make
a good film for him, helped me understand more about what made a film/TV show good for me. That, of course, was the characters
themselves, and so greatly related to my topic and got me thinking more about what I wanted to write about. Although this research
was in a video format, the actual content was similar to what I wanted to create for my fanzine articles and was therefore very helpful.
What did it help with exactly?
•In Polyester, I liked the fact that each page or topic had a different theme to it, matching the content. They all varied in appearance and
made an effort to match whatever the article was covering. I really liked this idea, and so I replicated it in my fanzine. I wanted to
incorporate their most noticeable traits, passion, quirkiness and individualism. I think I succeeded at this too, as my fanzine content
stemmed from my passion of film and TV, and how good characters can impact the story. As for the style of my fanzine, I think it is very
quirky, and has it’s own ‘stamp of approval’ of sorts. I feel that my fanzine is a recognisable product and meets the criteria I set for it.
•In Little White Lies they had a mixture of layouts, and I wanted to experiment with a lot of different layouts. For my last fanzine, a lot of
my articles were quite wide, so for this fanzine I used mostly columns. There were different layouts for each spread, which kept it pretty
fresh. For some of the articles I had the layouts mirror each other so that there was consistency on some of the pages but also more
contrast to make it look more interesting.

5. Audience
• I feel like my research was quite strong overall, I covered a lot of bases in my document.
I took a survey, which got quite a few responses, and included a lot of questions I
genuinely wanted/needed the answer to for my fanzine. I also conducted 2 interviews, I
was able to interview people who were both familiar with what I was writing about and
unfamiliar, giving me a bit more first hand information that I needed.
• I think my survey got all the information that I needed, I wanted to ask more questions
with comment boxes to get peoples opinions, but I was also aware that people are more
likely to skip questions like that, especially if there’s a few more questions like that. The
survey gave me some really clear insights into my age demographics likes/dislikes and
their habits surrounding movies/TV. It became pretty obvious that this age demographic
spends a lot of time online, so my fanzine should be online-friendly in terms of viewing.
I think my work looks quite good displayed in an online way. I also realised that my
fanzine needed to look cool or interesting, which is part of the reason why I went for a
colourful design and used a lot of patterns that would catch peoples eye. I realised that
if they are the least likely age group to read magazines I should at least make them
visually appealing, as that may be on of the main draws to reading my magazine in the
first place.
• I would maybe have conducted at least two more interviews to get some more primary
research and ask more quality questions to people I know will answer with helpful
information. the interviews I did turned up good and useful information, but I would
have liked to have more answers to my questions anyway. That way I would have felt
more secure with the information I had gathered from previous interviewees, and
would be able to compare answers.

6. Audience
The secondary research was quite weak though, in my
opinion. I feel like I didn’t collect nearly as much evidence
as I had done for primary research. I would have done a lot
more slides if I had a chance to redo it. However collecting
secondary evidence was virtually impossible, there were
not as many resources for the subject I was doing as I
expected or wanted. The evidence I collected was the
equivalent of me scraping the bottom of the barrel. Some
of the graphs/surveys I found that would have been helpful
you could only get access to if you paid or had a
subscription, which prevented me from gathering
information that I could have benefited from. For that
reason, if I could change my project I would have spent a lot
more time scouring the internet, or made use of the college
library in my pursuit for good secondary evidence. I would
maybe have asked my tutor for more resources/links too. I
think if I did all of this I may have turned up more
information.

7. Planning

8. Strengths
•Personally I think this is my strongest and most detailed document out of everything I had
produced. This was also the most helpful document during production, and I would
frequently open it to check my plans, remember what I was doing or get inspiration.
•The best part of this document I think is the planning for individual pages. I detail exactly
what I want to include, down to the quotes and the colours. For me, this is also the most
helpful part of the document. As I am a very visual person when it comes to learning and
planning, it helped me to see everything laid out and in order. The design pages were
probably the most frequently used as I would open them constantly to remember the
aesthetic I was going for and things I wanted to experiment with in some way. They perfectly
captured what I was going for in terms of visual design and were instrumental in helping me
realised my look and layout.
•The experiments really helped me visualise what my finished product may look like, and what
I would need exactly to complete the look I was going for. I incorporated colours and photos I
thought I might use or would look similar to what I wanted for my finished product. When it
came to making the product I used the experiments or at least used them for the structure
of my work.
•The pagination was very helpful, even though it took me some time to complete and I was
doubtful of it being useful to me. However, when it came down to production, it saved me a
lot of time, even when I changed the layout. When I had written the articles, it was
extremely helpful for me to simply drop what I made into the layout, and see what would
need changing from there. Since the building blocks of what need to go into the article were
already set up, it was easy for me to move everything around which still retaining the original
plan, or even expanding upon it.

9. Strengths
•The photography plan was helpful for cutting down on time. Making preparations
for where I would need to take the pictures and what props I would need to
include helped me visualise what they would look like, as elements like clothing
and location gave me an idea of the final products appearance.
•I did plan for what pages I would focus on if I ran out of time, and outlined my
final goal being quality not quantity. I did stick to this plan, and did almost all of
the pages I had planned in that section of the document. This plan was very
important, as it meant I put those pages first, and focused on finishing them and
planning for them as I went along.
•The magazine content planning took a huge amount of time, and I wrote a lot not
being sure if it would help, but when it came to making the final product it made
a huge difference. Simple things like quotes I would refer back to, to check what I
had written down and what I should include. Again, being a visual person, it was
great seeing everything I was going to include on a few simple slides in front of
me.

10. Weaknesses
• Overall, the weakest part of my planning was the pre-production section. A lot
of it was useless when it actually came down to production time. Some of this
was down to me personally not finding any use in them, and some of it was
just poorly planned.
• For example, when it came down to materials for photographs, I had not taken
into consideration Covid and how I would get access to some of these
materials. Some of the clothing I had planned to buy revolved around me
being in a physical shop, and I didn’t realise my mistake until later. I soon
adapted to what clothing I would have missing, and found the pieces I would
need for the photographs in my own possession. Some of them I couldn’t get
entirely, like BoJack’s pants, which I actually edited on instead. For his pants,
given the colour it is almost impossible to find them in any store, it probably
worked out better that I edited them instead.
• My production schedule wasn’t accurate and crammed too much in, so looking
at it now it seems almost impossible for me to have finished what I wanted to
make in that time. I think the schedule was a bit ambitious, and I think if I was
going to make that schedule under the assumption I was going to try and make
30 pages, I should have made a second schedule. On the second schedule I
would have detailed what I was going to do if I had less time or run out of it,
and cover the pages I had mentioned earlier in the document in that schedule.

11. Time Management

12. Time Management
I severely overestimated how much time I would have to complete this project, and gave myself the illusion I
could complete 30 pages in that time frame. I made 16, which isn’t a bad number, but it wasn’t my target goal.
One of my personal flaws is that I am a perfectionist, which, in turn, affects my work. Specifically how long it will
take me to complete my work. I spent a lot longer on earlier pages than I should have, leading me to run over my
schedule and leave less time for other pages.
I didn’t necessarily follow a schedule, which may have affected my time management. I tended to make personal
goals for each week but didn’t stick to a specific plan or organise my free time. I haven’t seen a direct line
between this and it affecting my progression with this project, but I may have benefitted from having a plan. I did
have one originally, but as I went along and realised I wouldn’t have enough time for everything I had wanted to
do, I decided to focus on specific sections of the magazine and tried to finish those. I wrote these down in my note
book, writing a list of sections/pages that were the most important. Those were: My Neighbor Totoro, Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, BoJack Horseman, Diane Nguyen, Free Churro and The View From Halfway Down.
All of these I did bar one, as it no longer fit my theme, so I fulfilled that second plan that I created.
Towards the end of the project I felt a bit more efficient, as I had specific and sometimes day-to-day goals in my
mind, which I usually completed on time and in an orderly fashion. I had to rush some of these though, as I felt I
had quite a lot to do and was nervous about the deadline.
I did run over in my time with last bits and pieces that I had put together, and would have benefitted with at least
an extra week. To complete my project to it’s full extent I may have needed another month at least, even then I
still probably wouldn’t have managed to do it all, as I am a perfectionist and would have taken too long on some
pages over others.

13. Technical qualities

14. The most technical (and technically challenging) element of this product has to be
the front cover, as there were a lot of different components that went into it. The
first being the filter and the editing, as it was going to set the tone of the front
cover and the fanzine itself. I needed the front cover to be vibrant, as I wanted to
include a lot of colour in my product, and for it to match the colour palette of the
show. The show itself is very colourful and bright, and that’s one of the aspects I
enjoy about it, and wanted to replicate it in my work. I first used VSCO to edit the
image, and went for a ‘cool’ filter. This made the colours pop a bit more, and made
the background look very blue, which really worked out well. It gave more
dimension to the image and made it look more interesting that it would have with
a plain background. I upped the saturation and the shadows option, which made
the image a lot less dark and shadowed and added the colour back into the photo
that I had lost. It also made the colour of the sweater into a more intense blue
that matched BoJack’s sweater in the actual show. I opened the image in
Photoshop and used the lasso tool to select the pants, as I realised I needed to
colour them turquoise. I had a lot of issues with this part, as I had to select the
exact outline of the pants, and had to redo this part many times. The sweater also
peeked out of the bottom of the blazer, and when I didn’t select it as part of the
pants the whole image looked off. I ended up colouring in the bottom part of the
sweater to make it part of the pants instead, so it wasn’t as noticeable and worked
better with the image. I then coloured in the pants using the image colour filter
and layering this multiple times. I then created clouds by drawing them using a
reference picture from the show and organised them behind BoJack’s body. This
added a lot to the image, as it looked very empty and quite plain. Overall I am very
happy with the front cover, as it represents the fanzine itself and also features the
main focus of the fanzine: BoJack Horseman.
Front Cover

15. Illustrations
I didn’t do too many illustrations, but I have done more for
this fanzine that I have for any other project before. Originally
I was going to draw things on paper and scan them in, but
drawing things in Photoshop was both easier and allowed me
to experiment before as I hadn’t used it before for this
purpose. A lot of my illustrations were very simple, but since I
went out of my comfort zone to draw them in an app I hadn’t
used for that before, I am pretty proud of what I have made.
Obviously as I am not very skilled in drawing, my capabilities
are not very high, which meant what I drew was pretty basic.
However, this fits the theme of fanzines more, as they were
created on the basis of what the creators skills were, they
were not works of art. They were often messy and had a
homemade aesthetic to them. I think my work fulfils that
same fanzine quality. I would have liked to make more, but
given my skill and time limit I didn’t make as many as I could
have. If I had more time I would have liked to expanded my
skillset and made more, so in that way I feel I could have
improved. My work doesn’t contain as many illustrations as I
had planned, but upon designing some of the articles I
realised that I wanted to preserve some sort of
professionalism or neatness in terms of my work quality and I
knew that some things I would try and draw would not look
right. By picking and choosing where it was right or where it
would work well for me to include illustrations, I managed to
utilise my creativity more. This helped extend a level of
experimentation into my work but added that layer of
homemade uniqueness.

16. Editing
•Most of the images I edited were in VSCO, I had used the app briefly
before but had to get a bit more familiar with it in order to edit the photos
in the specific way I wanted. For the Eternal Sunshine images I tended to
darken them as a lot of locations/shots were quite dark and grainy
looking. I had other images that I edited but I only used one since the
fanzine became overcrowded with images of me which took away from
the actual point of the fanzine: the characters. I used one image where I
replicated Clem’s hair and used that on it’s own. I feel that only using the
one image worked out better for the overall look of the fanzine and the
filter I went for completely set the tight tone to match the film.
•For all of the BoJack images I edited those in VSCO again, going for the
same filter to keep the images uniform and experimenting with the
settings. For the image pictured in the top right I opened it in Photoshop,
lassoed the middle fingers and used the pixelate filter on that layer. I then
found a polaroid border and edited it around the horse, giving the image
another layer to it. I particularly like how that image turned out, I think it
looks very effective. However it is slightly difficult to see the blur if you
aren’t looking at the image close up, but there was no way to fix that as I
had already experimented with increasing and decreasing the pixilation
with no solution to the issue. All in all I am quite happy with what I made.

17. Editing
• The art spread of BoJack featured in the top right corner took me a very long time to edit, as
this spread was all about appearances I focused very heavily on achieving the right look. This
page was directly inspired by an episode titled: ‘Stupid Piece of Sh*t’, where BoJack spends the
first part of the episode criticising everything he does, focusing heavily on how his self-loathing
affects him and how he acts. I wanted to capture the same hazy, anxious and intense feeling
the episode created for BoJack and the audience. I edited the images in VSCO, using a very
intense filter, and cycled through the colour options to find the brightest ones I could. I
matched the rest of the pages to the same colour scheme and the scheme seen in the show. I
used fonts that looked like scribbles or were almost blurry, I wanted to create something that
may mirror a lucid dream, a drug-fuelled vision, or nightmare. I think it worked out well, the
black contrasts very nicely with all the bright colours I chose. The eyes stand out incredibly
well, and they look very intense, and add a sense of anxiety to the page that I was looking for.
All in all I am very pleased with this page, and it is one of my favourite parts of the article.
• The image below is the back page, the background I created in Photoshop with the brush tool
and used the ‘soft glow’ option to create the yellow. I cut out the characters from the show
from a screenshot, and used the magic wand in Photoshop to get the perfect outline. As the
background of the original image was much lighter, it was very east to just get the black
outline. This meant it looked particularly effective against the yellow of the back page, and gave
this page a little personality. I still think the image may have looked better against a plain colour
background, like a yellow, however in this context it works slightly better. The front page takes
place in the daytime with a blue sky, and the back page is of a night sky. The continuity works
well in my opinion, and since the image I used for the outline originally had a galaxy as the
background, it being the last moments of Sarah Lynn, it probably suits the fanzine content
more.

18. Writing & Other Things
• In terms of my writing I feel that some areas/pages are stronger than
others. My top 3 in order would be: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind, Free Churro and My Neighbor Totoro. I think towards the end
of the fanzine I ran out of steam, and so my work wasn’t as good as it
could have been, in terms of writing and general design. The first half
of the fanzine is much stronger than the second, which lets it down a
bit but I simply felt like I had run out of creativity and energy when
coming upon the deadline. If I had more time I may have felt less
stressed and had time to improve my writing and the articles
appearances, but given the circumstances I think I did my best and am
still happy with the result.
• For Eternal Sunshine and My Neighbor Totoro I also did some cut and
pasting, this adds to the fanzine theme but also allowed me to add
something else to the pages design. I used a paper gift bag for My
Neighbor Totoro as the brown matched the neutral and toned down
colour scheme I was going for and had a lot of bees, flowers and
leaves on it. This fit the theme of nature I was using for this spread.
For Eternal Sunshine I used Easter egg boxes and magazine cut outs to
make the collages, and combined them with images from the film.
Using this I managed to create the scrapbook aesthetic that I aimed to
make in the first place. I think it was particularly effective for this
article, as I think it matched the theme quite well. I’m quite impressed
with how well it turned out and am very happy with it.

19. Aesthetic Qualities

20. Aesthetic qualities
• For this fanzine I wanted to make pages that had a lot of bright and
interesting colours. I thought this might be too overwhelming, but I think I
was wrong, as the colours make the fanzine inviting and fun.
• Each page/spread had it’s own colour scheme that I stuck to, and I think the
contrast between the pages because of this works particularly well. Starting
out from the beginning, it was my aim to make something that featured a
lot of different styles. I was worried that it would be too much, or the
change between each page would have given the reader whiplash, so to
speak. However I feel that it worked in the opposite way, and gave a lot
more life to the fanzine instead.
• I cut and paste a lot in this fanzine, which I had experimented with in my
previous fanzine, and managed to utilize that skill in a different way in this
project. The aesthetic I went for was entirely different, leaning to a more
indie style. I think given the nature of the product (being a fanzine), the
colourful and artsy style I wanted to go with and the collages I made, they
worked particularly well. For Eternal Sunshine I wanted to create a
scrapbook appearance, as if the couple had made it themselves. Because
Clementine is a very colourful and vibrant person, I used colours and
patterns that replicated her personality. They are both quite quirky people,
and would collect things like potato people together, so I wanted to make
the scrapbook be ‘out there’ and wildly vibrant to showcase that. I think
they worked perfectly and I don’t think it could have gone better.

21. Aesthetic Qualities
• For this project I wanted the content to be seen in the design, meaning that
I wanted to reference the media in the fanzines appearance.
• For example, I made the background orange in Eternal Sunshine, copied the
title and made use of a known quote from the film as a border. For BoJack
Horseman, I had a page dedicated to an episode in the show, down to the
colours and illustrations. I think these references worked really well, and
really weave the content and its storyline into the appearance.
• In terms of aesthetics I think the black pages on the right worked really well,
and are some of my favourite pages. I made use of the shows style, themes
and ideas to line up my with my work. In the same way that BoJack’s self-
loathing follows him everywhere, so do the things people have said to him.
Some of them hurtful, some of them true. It was important that I capture
the shows struggle with mental health and BoJack’s struggle with substance
abuse. I chose the images on the right of the page as it looks like he’s been
full ‘taken’ by the effects of alcohol, I think the images work well for the
hazy and spaced out effect I was going for.
• I think visually my work looks pleasing, interesting and creative. I wanted my
fanzine to be ‘full’ in a way, I didn’t want to leave empty, colourless spaces
and I wanted there be a lot of dimension to my work. I was worried that it
may look to cluttered or too much, but I think it looks light and inviting and
completely meets my standard when it came to my original plan of my
design.

22. Comparisons to existing
work

23. Comparison

24. Comparison
•I think the first noticeable thing between my work and other examples is that they look more polished and more
refined. This is just down to the company itself, the fact that there are more people working on it and I am just
one person. There is not much I could do to change this difference, as it’s down to skill and time. However, a line
can still be drawn between the two as being indie magazines/fanzines.
•The other examples look more professional, but they tended to be magazines rather than fanzines. There will be
actual crews working on these pages and wanting to present them to the public as a professional product with
high marketability. My product is on a niche topic for a niche group of people, and I made it on my own, so it has
that uniqueness and individuality because of that. The differences are clear, but my product would offer a more
personable experience, and has a homemade, DIY feeling to it.
•In terms of similarities, the indie magazines were quite bright and colourful, they used a lot of patterns and
images that drew attention and made the magazine more of a spectacle than a simple bit of paper. My fanzine is
similar in that way, the colours and patterns were a choice to draw attention, but to also demonstrate a certain
creativity and vibrance that you may not find in mainstream magazines.
•The images or designs used in the magazines were very quirky and almost strange-looking, this is to possibly draw
a different audience, give themselves a brand or be more unique. My fanzine is similar in this way, I use images
that are weird, experiment with colour and patterns, and also experiment with cutting and pasting too.
•Indie magazines also include illustrations in a few of them, which are often colourful and display an interesting
picture. I used my illustrations to add to my work, to make it look more interesting and display a different skill.

25. Comparisons to past
work

26. My work: then & now
• My first magazine was in Year 1, called Staged. I made that in a more classic magazine
style, a lot more plain as it was generally supposed to appeal to a more mainstream
audience. I was still writing about film, however I made up the movie I was talking
about.
• For my first fanzine in year two, I was writing about film, but specifically talked about
Jennifer’s Body and the backlash that surrounded it, going more into feminism. I went
for a more traditional fanzine look, incorporating a lot of punk styles and using a lot of
cut and paste in my fanzine.
• Looking back on both projects, I think they fulfilled their purpose, or target
demographic. The first magazine was meant to be more mainstream in its appearance,
and that’s why it had a more subdued look. I still really like this magazine, I think it
looks really good for what I made at the time, albeit looking a little empty.
• The first fanzine paved the way in terms of fanzines for me, in both the style of the
content. However, some pages look very empty to me, I think the layouts look a little
off and I’m not a fan of the font I used. I think some pages look really well done and
some pages look a little lacklustre. I don’t think I utilised a lot of my skills in this
fanzine, I didn’t use many photographs I had taken myself and only did one illustration.
I think the writing was good, but it has improved in my most recent fanzine.
• All in all I think my past projects were good, but not great, and the improvements
between then and now is very visible. I have improved in my writing style, my skills, I
have learnt new skills and used apps I hadn’t really used that much before. I have
always stuck to my theme, that much is apparent, and I think I have collected a nice
variation of styles and have advanced a lot in terms of my personal achievements and
goals of my final products.

27. Physical Planning

28. Physical Notes
Throughout this project I continually made notes and plans, whether that be about
photoshoots, article content, time management and project changes. In places where
I had issues, or had to prepare when I had less time, all of that is visible throughout
my notes. I went through specific episodes, videos and areas where I should focus,
writing down what to include in articles. I don’t think I would have completed the
project as well as I did if I hadn’t made notes in this way. These pages helped me
figure out what I wanted to say, what I needed to do and what improvements were
left. The notebook was probably the most useful item to me throughout the project.

35. Problems &
Improvements

36. Problems
•The biggest issue I had was the camera files. For the images for My Neighbor Totoro and
Eternal Sunshine, I transferred the images straight from the camera onto my desktop. They
were not JPG files, and were instead Cr2 files. These were raw camera files, which made it
very difficult for me to drop these into power point to compare and for some reason
darkened the images considerably. The next set of images I took I used the Bluetooth option
on the camera to upload them straight to my phone. It made it easier for me to pick out the
images I wanted and edit them on VSCO, before emailing them to myself. The process was a
lot less clunky, and I didn’t have to deal with the files being CR2 and darkening themselves.
VSCO is also a lot easier to use and edit with over Photoshop.
•The second issue I had was the leaf drawing in My Neighbor Totoro always had a different
colour background to the actual background colour of the fanzine spread. No matter what I
changed I couldn’t fix the issue, it would look fine in InDesign, but as soon as I exported it as
any kind of file it was immediately noticeable. I think it had something to do with InDesign’s
colour correcting format as a few other colours I had edited in Photoshop became slightly
dulled when put into InDesign. I finally figured out that if I simply remove the background in
Photoshop and left it transparent the issue would no longer persist. That fixed the long
winded issue entirely, I’m a little surprised I didn’t think about it sooner.
•When I edited BoJack’s pants, a bit of the sweater poked out from underneath the blazer.
When I selected the pants and changed the colour, the patch of black from the sweater was
incredibly noticeable. I decided to colour over it in a turquoise similar to the one I had edited
over the pants and try and blend that as much as I could into the image. I used the blur tool
and switched between a lot of variants of turquoise until I managed to make it look as
seamless as possible. Overall it turned out pretty well, although it is a bit noticeable if you
stare at the image too long. The top part of the pants looks pretty good, the part that is next
to the blazer looks a bit off. However, there is no real way to fix that, since the contrast
between the colours is the main draw to that fault, so I left it as it was. Overall I am
impressed with what I produced and I feel that it mirrors the exact outfit BoJack wears.

37. Problems
•Diane’s page was easily the page I struggled with the most. I couldn’t think of any design ideas, I
was never sure on the layout and I didn’t know what to add to it to make it better. In my opinion,
this page is the least creative and least visually pleasing. It’s a shame, as I feel the article I wrote
was good and meant a lot to me. I feel that it lacks character and ingenuity, but I still don’t have
much in the way of ideas for this page, even looking at it now. So even if I had more time I’m not
sure exactly what I would do to it. If I had more time I would have tried to add something to it to
make it more creative and interesting, and would have spent longer looking for ideas on how to
improve it and made something a bit more unique.
•For the Sarah Lynn page, and also the Diane page, I had run out of steam. I became quite tired with
this project and struggled coming up with ideas to make these pages look good or work well. I tried
my hardest to complete it with some sort of vision or skill, but I don’t feel like these pages worked
out well. I do like the colour scheme of green that I went with for Sarah Lynn, incorporating the
leaves from the painting into the fanzine. I don’t particularly like much else about this page, maybe
if I had more time towards the end of the project I might have been able to make something a bit
more out of what I had, but there is a very small chance of that happening overall.
•In terms of these two pages, I am satisfied with what I made, but not happy with the standard they
are up to. Given the chance I probably would have spent a lot more time on them perfecting them.
•1 thing I never clarified at any point in the fanzine or the planning, was that the reviews for BoJack
Horseman would contain spoilers, but any other part of the fanzine did not. I was writing the
BoJack section as if people who had already watched the show would be the main audiences
reading it. On some pages I wrote trying to advertise the show to people who hadn’t seen it and
on others was discussing details of the show that only someone who had seen it would
understand. If I could improve the project I would add a spoiler warning the pages before going
into detail on the characters, or put a spoiler warning on specific characters I know would contain
spoilers, like Sarah Lynn. I would also have either gone completely spoiler free or have a lot of
spoilers in it.

38. Peer feedback &
Audience Appeal

39. Audience appeal
I think the audience appeal lies mainly in the style of my fanzine. I personally find
magazines to be quite corporate and professional, which often makes them incredibly
boring to look at. The reason for them looking this way is that they are appealing to a
general audience, or a slightly older audience which tend to prefer simpler looking
magazines. With fanzines in general, and specifically mine, there is a lot of freedom
to, essentially, do what you want. I think I created a very interesting (albeit maybe a
bit strange) looking fanzine that uses a lot of colour, patterns and interesting imagery
to create an experience for the reader to have. It also integrates film and TV fans into
a more in depth look at characters or specific parts of the media that were effective,
rather than give a general review.

40. Model Feedback
Did you feel like you knew what to do?
Not really I was wearing a horse mask
Did you feel comfortable in the setting?
No it was a really hot mask
Were there any problems? How were they handled?
I couldn’t breathe, so I took regular breaks to take the mask off.
Was my management style good? What could be improved?
Yes. You were a very good manager, the only improvement would be not wearing a horse mask as it’s
quite hard to do anything in it. But you were pretty good at directing me even though I couldn’t see

41. Peer Feedback
What did you like about the product?
I enjoyed the images used of all of the pages especially the images taken in real life, they where a good take on
the animation and worked well as the show breaks its animation norms a lot so seeing BoJack in real life feels like
something the show would do. I enjoy all the layouts overall, some more than others they are visually interesting
and grab your attention. The content itself and the choice of content was good and very original making it actually
interesting to read. My personal favourite part of the magazine is the colour scheme and small graphics that you
have drawn as they are very aesthetically pleasing and look incredibly professional 
Would you read it? Why?
I’d probably read half of it, and the other half I’d just enjoy looking at the pictures, which is more than I’d read of a
normal magazine. I’d read those pages because of the pull quotes and the layout. Some of them I already know
about and want to know how you interpret it, and the ones I don’t know about are intriguing. The pages I
wouldn’t read look too long winded, there’s too much writing for me to remember the point.
What could be improved?
More exciting fonts in some places. The contents page could have been a little easier to understand. The Walking
Dead was missing even though you included it on the cover and the contents page. There’s no price on the front,
but there is a barcode. The back page header font could have been more interesting. You could have tried
illustrating a character from BoJack Horseman.