zine secrets

Anyway - that safety, that bit where you go "This will be a lot nicer when it's actually produced." - I took that away from them too. They had to produce their zine in an edition of five, so they had to produce a product, not an approximation of a product. This was the real thing, the finished, printed thing that would sell in the shops.

Luckily these students (this goes for the entire college - I've seen this in every year I've taught), these students are not afraid of work, they are not slow on the pick up and after virtually no moaning about "no computers" the said "OK" and within two hours they had magically conjured up a couple of typewriters. - I had provided them with old Letraset sheets, stencils and random bits - a few of them embraced these foreign materials, but they all found ways to work within the rules.