I think having professional critique from MCASD’s staff really helped my group push in the direction that we needed to go. I found the critique from Luisa and Akiko to be extremely helpful especially since my group didn’t really know what we wanted our zine to look like. They gave us a lot of good suggestions that we took into consideration and incorporated into our zine. I think an old skill that I had developed even more was my skill of being able to accept critique from other people as well as give critique to others.

Group Work

When I had found out who was in my group, I had come to the realization that all of our topics were sort of similar, so it wasn’t really hard to try and combine them. I think what worked well was how most of my group did their own work when others had asked them to do it. For example, if I had asked one of my group mates to work on their condensed research paper so that we could put it in our zine, they would do it. I think one of the biggest challenges my group faces was how for the majority of the time, it was only one person working on our group zine. This was a challenge because only one person could be working on the computer and it would usually lead to that group member being stressed. For our mock zine for Festival del Sol, only one of our groups worked on it and they were stressed. For our final zine for the CV Zine Fest, I was the only one that worked on it and I was stressed for the most part because I was unsure if I was going to finish it on time or not. Honestly, I don’t think we were able to overcome that obstacle. I think we just had to persevere and just hope for the best for our end result.