making a zine for photography student

I was asked by a photography students to make a zine for them for their cop submission showing their photographs. For this brief i was given a week to complete.

The brief:
make a zine about common miss conceptions
saddle stitch booklet style
cover, content, end in a paragraph from her essay

After meeting grace to talk about the details of the zine after the initial briefing over facebook it was clear that the brief was not as straightforward. The photographs were of people with certain illnesses and didn't want the zine and its information out in the world. This made me ask the question of why she wanted a zine if it wasn't allowed to be seen for anything other than the submission, which defeated the purpose of a zine as they are to be read. After this meeting i seemed to have a completely different brief as she has already told the people who she has photographed how the booklet was going to look and they had signed a form to agree to it. This meant i had many restrictions as didn't have any reign for creative design just the making of the document. 

the new breif :
make indesign document of her content. 


After the debriefing, i started to create the document. when placing the photos into the document i had to photoshop them as without doing it i would not be able to achieve the brief as they would look out of place. This took more time tahn expected as they were supposed to be already edited and the same colour. 


For confidentiality as the people in the photos sign a form i cannot show on the blog the development of zine nor the final design. I was never given a copy of the final zine for my submission.

please find a printed copy in my submission fold. (something went wrong in printed and no long have files as i handed them over to the student) 

Evaluation of experience: 
My experience on this brief was very unpleasant as i was miss lead to what the brief entailed, as she withheld information till after i had agreed to came the zine. They said that they had no experience with indesign so that was why they were asking me to do the brief but in the end it was obvious that they just didn't want to make the zine themselves.
If iwas to ever do a brief for another student i will make sure to clarify the details before saying yes and if i later find that information has been with heald i will turn down the brief.