Aim: How should you design your fanzine's cover?

Do Now: Based on the title of your fanzine, how do you envision your fanzine’s cover?
Write a description of your cover.

Or you can draw a sketch of how you envision your cover.
(5 min.)

Materials:
• Cover examples
• Paper, pens
• Macs, class blog

Procedures: Elicit Do Now responses-

1.) Answers will vary (5 min.)

2.) Mini Lesson: Model covers for your fanzine.

How should you design your cover?

Well, fanzines usually have a homemade look to them, not to slick and kind of "underground"

Please look at the handout for some examples...

Punk rock and comics is how fanzines started, so here's some classic examples, including my fanzine from 1988, when I was your age, "Right Trash" # 1 from 1988.
(5 min.)

3.) Whole Class: Today I want you to focus on your fanzine’s cover. You must either sketch or design the cover on the computer using Powerpoint or Photoshop.

You must get approval from me for your designs or e-mail me your rough design by the end of today.
The other person in your group should be readying another page of text, poetry, graphics, reviews, etc.
(3-5 min.)
4.) Okay now get into your Groups or independently start working.

If you need to do research for inspiration or images you have ten minutes and then say bye bye to the internet.

(10 min.)

Now start writing and designing your cover, by the end of today, I want you to e-mail me AT LEAST TWO articles and I want to know what your cover design will be.

You should finish the cover over the weekend.

E-mail me your progress at ROliver2@schools.nyc.gov


(25 min.)
5.) You must e-mail me your progress by the end of today, ROliver2@schools.nyc.gov
6.) Summary: Let’s see some of your sketches of your cover (3-5 min.)