A bit TAPPED.

This year in college we had to independently produce our own student magazine. The task seemed daunting at the beginning. We began the assignment with 8 enthusiastic members, although this group quickly shrunk to a 5 between members getting employed in the media industry or loosing interest in the vast amount of work.

We eventually decided to name our magazine Tapped, because we are crazy mo fos who are a bit mad for the craic like.

Our magazine consisted of an editor, sub-editor, production manager, page design and layout team as well as a photography editor.

I happily volunteered to be the photography editor. My role was to contact modelling agencies, get in contact with independent photographers on various websites. I mainly used flickr as there were a huge variety of photos to choose from. From here, I contacted photographers and I hoped I could get their images for free as we didn’t have a big budget to play around with.

Our images had to be picture perfect. I had to quickly learn the tools to edit photos and make them look extra glamorous.

The editor and myself also attended a college social night out and took countless photos while the students got pissed. It was so much fun to be involved and talk to others about the magazine that was in production at the time.

The purpose of taking photos was to get Rathmines students interested in the magazine, and to have an upper hand on our competitors (Fringe Magazine).

Our magazine had to pay for itself. We badly need advertisers. Badly. As a last resort we teamed up with Fringe who were also struggling with the financial cost of the magazine.

With the tension mounting to get content fitted perfectly between features and reviews in on time for our print date, the tension mounted on myself to get the photographs in. I found the communicating with some team members was becoming increasingly difficult. Some people took it upon themselves to source their own photos, which at the end of the day brought down the overall quality of the magazine.

There was no time for complaining… The magazine launches were fast approaching.

 

Getting ready for the launch was super fun. People in my class designed posters for around the college. It was hilarious.

The launch was a major success. Check out the photos!

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