The document provides a reflection on the student's print media project. It summarizes the research, planning, production, and feedback stages. For the research, the student covered a variety of fanzine topics but notes a lack of primary research. Planning included idea generation and mood boards, but pagination and schedules required more detail. The produced fanzine achieved the goal but appeared rushed. Feedback noted the consistent style but suggested more game details and improved color scheme readability. The student agreed further development was needed for some elements.

1. Print Reflection
Andrew Downes

2. Research
• My Research Was good because it had a wide variety of different
topics with in fanzines so I had one on life decisions and what the
author thought on them and then I had one on video games from
the 2000’ and then I had yet another one Greek Mythology and the
gods. I also did fairly in depth analysis of each, from colour to
layout.
• I also did quite a good audience profile doing both a primary and
secondary audience as a backup and going into some detail about
why they might enjoy the product and what type of backgrounds
they may be coming from and same goes for gender and age.
• I believe that my research summary was fairly clear and mostly
concise taking from the rest of my research including the two areas
being production techniques and what interests people in fanzines.

3. Research part 2
• My research had some down sides to it because of the slide called
what interests people in fanzines most of which was made up from
just looking at what fanzines were like and looking at sales for
different fanzines to come up with some sort of idea of what was
going to happen.
• The other major down side to my planning was that I didn’t do any
primary research because I didn’t think that it would aid my project
at all in fact if I gave them anyone an option in what I was going to
create they would probably ask it to be something completely
different to what I wanted to make.
• The other quite big down side was that I believe that I could have
gone into much more detail on what little research I actually did
and that it may have needed to have been fleshed out a bit more.

4. Planning
• I believe that my idea generation was quite strong as it has looked towards most of
the details that I was going to include in my fanzines, those ideas including the
writing, the images, the backgrounds and the questions I would try to raise and for
every idea generation I made a mind map to compliment it and there were three
idea generations.
• As with the idea generations I had three different mood boards one for each idea
one being for Greek mythology, one for video games and another for art and for all
of these mood boards there were three different mood board analysis which was
fairly broad as it didn’t look to much into context however it looked into the base
designs of the products and gave me some more general ideas for how I could
produce different parts of my product.
• The pagination was all right because gave me the stepping stones that I needed to
get to my final product.
• The production schedule was fairly similar to the pagination it was useful in the
way that it gave me ideas on where to start and how to start but beyond that it
didn’t tell me much else that means I probably should have added some more
work into both the production schedule and the pagination.

5. Planning part 2
• My idea generation could have been seen as being weak because as far as
I can see when I look back over them two of the ideas seemed half baked
and had quite a bit missing from the general idea, but one was quite
strong compared to the other two making the choice quite obvious from
the get go and the mood board was pitiful which actually shows how
much planning and research went into this part of the project.
• When it comes down to my idea development mood board analysis could
have used some more on what the context could have been for the
specific products.
• When it comes down to the pagination it was useful to give me a jump
start however past that it wasn’t of much use because when I started to
create my pages I thought that around 300 words would fit into one page
when it was closer to 300 characters and so I had to have two full pages of
writing and then have the images on separate pages.
• As for the production schedule it was the same as the pagination because
in the end as the pagination changed my production schedule changed at
the same time prolonging the process.

6. Fanzine
• I like the fanzine as it is technically what I set out to create with in a limited time
period and it is in perfect A5 size. It is fairly basic because I had to cut back on bits
and pieces I was going to put into the fanzine, I cut most of the bits out when it
comes down to the writing same goes for both the exclusives and the reviews. As I
have shown I received some massive answers when it came down to the reviews I
also wrote down quite a bit even though I had cut out quite a lot and also the
designs were fairly basic but the way that I drew them it looked better being black
and white rather than in colour and yes I did try it I just forgot to save the trials
and errors a majority of the time. I like that I used a wide variety in some of the
images that I decided to draw though and when they were coloured they did look
much better in certain cases.
• Quite a few of the images like the dead cells image is incredibly detailed and same
goes for the pokemon map, the rainbow six siege images and the Assassin’s Creed
images.
• The writing sticks out well when it comes down to the black part of the
background which was lazily made but looks alright however the writing does not
stick out as well when it comes down to the blue part of the background maybe if I
changed the shade or colour it would stand out more.

7. Fanzine part 2
• When I look back at it, it looks incredibly rushed same goes for the
majority of this project, it also seems like there is very little detail
when it comes down to both the designs and the writing aspects of
this project.
• Some of the writing doesn’t stick out to well when it comes down
to the blue on blue so I need to be able to change up the colour of
my writing.
• Or I could just change the background which would have been
easier but then what would I change it to it would probably either
have been grey or white, which wouldn’t really do to much for the
design of the background and would just seem slightly lazier than it
already was.
• When it comes down to some of the designs they aren’t coloured
quite a large reason behind this choice was because it didn’t look
good with the block colouring that I usually use

8. Time management
• My time management was all right up until the Christmas holidays when I started to fall
behind because became ill over that time I tried to work through it and it eventually got
worse and worse so I had to take a break from working on my project for a little while.
• When it came down to my research it only took a fairly short amount of time because I was
fairly confident with what I wanted to create and thus kind of ignored to an extent primary
research as it wouldn’t do much for my project anyway and when it came down to creating a
proposal I took the short and easy way out which was to do the rationale and the idea as well
as the name but beyond that there was no detail making it harder to complete the project
how I wanted it to be.
• The planning was done quite well for how much of it there actually was I did it all in good
time that good amount of time that I actually started on my production a week early which
made the production a little bit easier to manage, with the mood boards or the analysis’ not
taking long at all.
• When it came down to the production I slowed down a bit when I had to the reviews,
exclusives and interviews and when it came down to the designs at the start I was at least
making 2-3 designs a week but then Christmas holiday came along and what I mentioned at
the start happened, only when I came back was when I actually finished my production and
uploaded it which was about a day or two maybe over the deadline.

9. Audience appeal
• The audience would have liked because it was made by a person like them
and it was made for similar people to be able to check out some older
games and some more recent ones at the same time so it kind of
developed into a list of games that I would recommend playing except for
the Pokémon game as I haven’t played it. My product also appealed to my
audience by using some more dark colours than light colours when it came
down to the background of the writing which was also incredibly simple
and nice to look at. When it comes down to gender though I believe that it
could have appealed to either side this because I tried to appeal to both
sides at the same time. When it comes down to the age it was bright in
some areas and dark in others meaning that I thought I made a good
contrast between the two to entice some more people to try the fanzine.
When I think about the class I never really tried to appeal to the classes
with either a price or anything else to even come close about trying to
entice anyone from middle class, lower class and upper class.

10. Peer Feedback
Positives
• Overall your style seems to stay consistent over the production for your ideas
• The inspired pieces of work talking about Assassins Creed and Rainbow Six Siege are impressive.
• The review work on for Dead Cells and Pokémon are detailed and for someone looking at the
games, this would be handy to determine whether it would good to buy the game.
Negative
I feel that it is lacking in the amount of games that you have looked at as well as the content looking at
each, I felt that if you were to keep the 3 games you could have gone into more detail and broken it
down into sub categories like aesthetics, story and gameplay.
Some of the designs that you have done to represent the games feel incomplete, in the case of the
Pokémon designs is just a layout issue where the characters would have been nicer if they were aligned
to the center horizontally of the page and evenly vertically across the page
Improvements
I believe that the colour scheme/ design chosen, while it is mellow the blue seems to contrast a little
too harshly against the black, a way to fix this would have been to blur around it so that it blends with
the black a bit more.

11. Peer Feedback
Pros:
• Art provides a nice sense of individuality.
• The mixture of line-based artwork and coloured ones provides a good
contrast between them.
• Written content is detailed and provides a range of appropriate
viewpoints.
Cons:
• Colour scheme feels a little hard to read.
• I think that the text would benefit from using different fonts to separate
headings from paragraphs.
• Page numbers referring to images feel un-required and seem to take up
space on the index page.

12. Feedback Summary
• I agree that the style stays consistent throughout the fanzine and
that there is a lot of good art work and writing work however I also
agree that I probably should have done some more detail for each
of the games I looked at. Also there is an issue with the colour
scheme in the background that it contrasts a little bit too harshly
and also that the text could have been in a different font or
changed in some way to separate the bunch.
However I there was on little detail that I both agree with and disagree
with which was when the first feedback talked about the images being
incomplete the map was complete and I tried to colour it in however it
just just wasn’t looking nice at all so I just reverted it to its original
state and when came down to the Pokémon drawings I will accept that
those drawings were half baked and that they either needed a
background to link them together or to have more Pokémon in the
image.