Zine Process
In biology class Ms. Nuvia was teaching us some of the basics of the nervous system some of the topics we covered are pains in the brain, nature vs. nurture, and about social needs. Ms. Nuvia had us learn about these topics through ted talks, lectures, and several articles. Our team got to seek some professional help as well we had the opportunity to have Valerie Hubert from NAMI, Dr. Kauffman from UCSD, and Dr. Blanco-Suarez from the Salk Institute. Getting professional understanding about the nervous system helped us comprehend brain structures and brain anatomy. We created our proposal presentations and from there we got paired up to our groups based off of our topics. We started drafting cover and back cover ideas and creating what would go on the inside of your our zine which was our synopsis, personal page, social advocate page, introduction page, table of contents, and center page. Of course, each of these pages went through drafts to get them ready to print, the critique was given to us by our classmates, professional zine artist, and teachers.
For the art piece created by my zine group displayed in the MCASD the connecting thread we found through all our topics was the idea of perspective. The topics my group had was video games(Paul), bipolar disorder(my topic), social isolation(Michael), depression(Amanda), and self harm(Paula). We found the connection of perspective because there’s many opinions about each of our topics, so each person has a different way of seeing mental illness. For the zine also created by my zine group the connecting element we had was the stigma since the majority of our synopsis were about the stigma we stuck with that and raised awareness on our topics as a whole. What worked well when combing our topics and seeing what were connections between our topics is because some of them were the actual illness and some were symptoms.
For the art piece created by my zine group displayed in the MCASD the connecting thread we found through all our topics was the idea of perspective. The topics my group had was video games(Paul), bipolar disorder(my topic), social isolation(Michael), depression(Amanda), and self harm(Paula). We found the connection of perspective because there’s many opinions about each of our topics, so each person has a different way of seeing mental illness. For the zine also created by my zine group the connecting element we had was the stigma since the majority of our synopsis were about the stigma we stuck with that and raised awareness on our topics as a whole. What worked well when combing our topics and seeing what were connections between our topics is because some of them were the actual illness and some were symptoms.