For this project I created a publication detailing the dangers and victims of The Church of Scientology. My aim for this publication was to create an editorial piece that warns people of the danger that is Scientology, showing certain things that they do such as spying, blackmail and family separation, ultimately I wanted to show how controlling the 'religion' is, hence the name of my publication being 'Religion of Control'. As well as this I wanted to create reportage pages about some of the victims of Scientology and their stories. Also at the end of my publication I created a spot where I would put my Digital Adventures Zine about the insane story of Xenu that is in Scientology, I did this to show the reader how ridiculous Scientology really is, how it may seem like a do good religion but in reality it has silly stories with a controlling narrative.
I think that my publication is successful in achieving what I wanted it to achieve. I used colours that are staples in Scientology imagery to almost disguise it as a approved Scientology publication in an ironic way. The style of my publication is simple but effective and uses imagery that I collected on my visit to the London Church of Scientology. One thing I do think I could have improved on is perhaps creating more of a flowing publication, I think that it looks a bit too stiff and I believe that this is mostly to to do with the blocks of writing I have put in. I struggle with creating editorial work that uses text in an interesting way and end up just creating boxes for my writing that makes my work look less professional and not as creative as it could be. This also makes the meaning and aim of my work less accessible to readers as it is not presented in a way that makes you want to read.
Overall my work is clear in its aim and uses personal research and secondary research to create a piece of reportage work. My downfalls definitely include my text and my flow of the publication however I think that my drawings, composition and execution is well done.
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