Zine

Some of you may be wondering what a “Zine” is, I know I wasn’t sure at first but it is derived from the word “magazine,” a zine is a small press publication that is like a magazine with a twist: it is non-commercial, grassroots, independently published and captures the spirit of DIY/DIY (Do-It-Yourself/Do-It-Together) ideologies. They can have several different genre’s and/or formats. For the purpose of this assignment we will be creating a single page zine that we fold and cut the middle that will make 8 small pages.

For my zine topic I am continuing to go with the snowboarding topic. I will have a title page, a brief introduction about how I got into snowboarding, the three most common styles of snowboarding today (all mountain, freestyle, freecarve), corpus analysis on snowboarding, different photos from different level of ski resorts, video of snowboarding down the mountain, wrap-up/final thoughts, and then the back page.

I think overall this will be a fun project and will be interesting to see what topics my other classmates will choose to do theirs on. My goal is to give some of the basic background knowledge to my viewers about snowboarding and how much fun it can be.



UPDATE:

Like I said before I did my Zine on snowboarding. I explained how I personally got into snowboarding by watching Shaun White at the Winter XGames and I had asked for my very first snowboard for Christmas and then took lessons at a local resort and have been getting better and better every season. There are three different styles to snowboarding and I gave a brief description what they all mean which include all-mountain, freestyle, and freeride. To make it more personal I used my own personal photos that I took at several different resorts including Blue Knob, PA, Gore, NY, Sugarbush, VT, and Killington, VT.