Part A: Discover Making a Zine Video Transcript

Hello again. In this video we are going to create an artwork called a zine, and it’s going to be inspired by geology. Now you might have heard of the word geology, and it means the study of rocks.

At the you will find a painting, called a frieze, designed by the geologist John Phillips. It is very long and thin and stretches all the way round the top of the building.

It shows the coastline and if you look carefully you can see Whitby, Scarborough, Scarborough and Filey. The frieze shows the strata or layers of rocks in the cliffs, each one is shown by a different colour or number.

There are some old rock names, like diluvium, but others you may have heard of, like chalk and sandstone. If you walk along the beach you will often find stones and pebbles made from these rocks.

The rocks in Scarborough are really old, around 200 million years old, and they were formed during the Jurassic period.

Now let’s have a look at an artwork that’s from Scarborough Art Gallery that’s also inspired by geology.

This artwork is called ‘Fujidelic’ and it’s by the artist Kathy Prendergast. Kathy was interested in contour lines, which are patterns that you find on maps, and here she’s painted on top of a map of Mount Fuji, which is a Japanese volcano. The beautiful lines look not only like a map, but also like layers of rock which you might find under the earth and also look a bit like tree rings as well.

For our making activity, we are going to have a go at making a zine, and a zine is a word that just means a magazine or a leaflet that an artist makes. Artists make zines because they are a really good way to share their artwork with other people, using materials that you would find around the house. So, our zine is going to be inspired by geology, and in the zine you can think about maybe rocks or pebbles that you found on the beach or perhaps rocks that you can imagine or strata underneath your feet. Or maybe even rocks that you might find in the future. Let’s get started!

So, for making your zine you are going to need: - Some A3 white card - Pritt stick - Scissors - Some felt-tip pens, in a few different colours - And some coloured paper for collaging, and the colours are up to you.

So, to start off with take your A3 piece of card and you are going to fold it over, from the short end to the other short end, and then you are going to press down on the seam nice and neatly all the way along, to make a nice, neat seam.

Open it back up, then take the edge on the right and fold it over to meet the crease in the middle and score it down again. Then take the side on the left, fold it over to meet in the middle as well. So now you should have about an A4 sized piece of paper.

Open it back up and fold it back over now so it’s longways to the other long side, and making sure it is nice and neat and press down on the crease to make it nice and neat.

Open it back up and you’ll see there are eight sections. Turn it over, then what you are going to do is fold it in half (from the short end to other short end) and the crease should be on the right hand side.

Then you are going to take a pair of scissors and you are going to cut along the line in the middle of the piece of paper to halfway and that is going to create the fold for the zine.

Open the piece of paper back up and you are going to pinch the creases in the middle, and I’ve put my fingers underneath the crease, so see push it together and fold it down, and then it will create a nice little book. Be really nice and firm on that seam, and there’s your folded zine.

This is a speeded-up video of me decorating my zine, I went for different fossils and rocks and pebbles and I ripped up and collaged my paper, and I even thought about some colourful rocks from the future. I decorated the front and back of my zine with text, and in the middle, I unfolded it and made my strata. So, you can see I collaged different layers and imagined landscapes of the future.

So, to open up my zine this is what it looks like, and then once you unfold it you can see the strata is in the middle.

I created a few different designs, first of all I tried one without any text, just with collaging different types of rocks, and opened it up and I made a more graphic style strata in the middle and you can see the pebbles that are on the front of the zine.

I also experimented at having a go with monoprinting some artwork for the zine. So monoprinting is one of the other videos you can have a go at as the Arts Award. You can see when you unfold it, I did a combination of monoprinting with drawn lines on top.

So, I really hope you’ve enjoyed discovering how to make a zine, be sure to take a picture of your final zine as your artwork proof for your logbook and I’ll see you on the next video. Bye!