Bring yall upto date now... week nine

Hey everyone,

Just let me say first that I apologize to those who have been hanging on my blog waiting for more info… I’ve been hella busy-

So I’m gonna break it all down for yall....

First prices…

We have received three main quotes for our magazine… without revealing the company names; we were shocked at the prices across the board.
One print company offered 20 mags, half colour half b&w 60 pages, full gloss – $3,500 – yeah I know take a breath… there's more…

We received another quote for the same specs – 10 mags $1, 400 –

We received these figures at the beginning of last week. And I needed a week to get over it…
Then we received another quote which was a bit more reasonable –
60 pages, full colour, 300gsm cover, full gloss pages - $250 for 5 mags $450 for 10…

So that’s what were doing… for this reason we won’t be distributing this magazine on any real scale…BUT…

The benefits are still the same… we can still use this as a bargaining tool for gaining sponsorship or looking for advertising ….

In addition to this we will apply for some kind of discount as well… as we are students and additionally we can put up some advertising at our magazine launch which is free promo for the printing place


Magazine Launch

We have an exhibition at the end of semester as part of our degree. The whole year get to showcase their work in front of family/industry people/ potential employers…

We will treat this as our magazine launch… we will be giving away stickers and prints from our magazine(all work rightfully referenced/attributed to the artist) in addition to this we can have flyers and promotional cards for up coming exhibits on the local scene.


Progress

If you can call it that…

No we have made quite a bit of progress… Ellena has photoshoped 15 pages of fashion and article based stuff. Yesterday I had an awesome day on INDESIGN (which I love) and made a whopping 20 pages! This is most of the flickr content… I’m waiting on two contibuters…but this isn’t an issue. I can move on to other stuff and come back to the flickr people… Its more important to find some more local artists… I’ve found one site through a tutor which is local and really cool (http://www.emergencee.com.au/ ) but we will still approach all the galleries mentioned on this blog….

Next week is a lecture free week… YAY!
During the week, I intend to call (followed by an email) all the galleries on our list and give’ em a spiel on our project, what we hope to achieve and what we want from them… at the moment this will basically both digital and hard copy information/promotional materials for up coming events/exhibits.

That we can use the digital for the mag and use the physical to distribute at our magazine launch… If they can send us posters as well as flyers it’ll be awesome!

In addition. Maybe if they got any promo gear for their gallery its self. That could be cool to…

The more stuff we have to give away the better. We can also handout broachers of how to submit for potential advertising in our magazine.

One advantage that has arrisin from the fact that we won't be distributing this magazine is that of the rights to information... When thinking we were gonna distribute, we had to get permission to use resourses and stuff that we got off line. If we consideer this a prototype then we can take whateva content we want off the net... as long as we reference it.

For this reason its taken a bit of aload off... we can just copy paste tutes off the net as well as advertising from current magazineas as well as blogs, interview, reviews and what eva. When we consider the magazine, the issues are moved from the content to the design of the magazine...

If its a prototype, we can say we would get these people on the payroll... find people who make tutorials or people who review music festivals or exhibitions...

Thats the benefit of a prototype... you can say, "this is what we've done; if this was for real these are the process we would go through"

I guess i look at this whole process as a 'dry run' of how to make/print/fill/ditribute a magazine....