Even though I'm collaborating with Hannah to produce her publication her feedback wasn't exactly informative to any extent. This feedback was reassurance that the work I was producing was up to a high standard. The feedback was from other peers in my class to get a second opinion. In the end, the feedback from my peers would only inform my design decisions but the feedback from Hannah is final. On some respects, she acts as the client even though it's a collaboration to produce a zine.
The feedback was situated around the first draft of the zine. At this period Hannah had sent her feedback about the first draft which led to me gathering other opinions around the zine as a whole. I asked 6 people what they thought and if the zine portrayed a modern and minimal style while also make good use of the photos. The other feedback I wanted to generate was whether the feedback from Hannah was valid.
The majority of people who gave me feedback thought the design of the zine did indeed communicate a contemporary aesthetic. Though the majority did indeed agree with one statement from Hannah's feedback. Hannah mentioned she didn't like the cropping of her images. After hearing the feedback from my peers I understood that this was somewhat a bad thing to do. I saw it as being more fluid and creative with the images in order to show off the sheer beauty of the shadows and building textures. From Hannah point of view, it could be considered rude to manipulate someone else work. Plus I took a step back to try to see it from her perspective and I wouldn't want people changing something I had to spend some time working on. Everyone else though that the rest of Hannah's feedback was a bit bland and not really productive. They agreed with me that it was all subjective and it's clear that she wouldn't really be persuaded. From this feedback, I got some reassurance that my work was of a good standard but in order to successfully complete the brief as efficiently as possible I should bite the bullet and implement all feedback provided by Hannah.
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