Sunday Film

Sunday Film is the zine for the roll you shot on a slow weekend: the coffee, the walk, the cat on the windowsill, the one good portrait. It is built for people who shoot on a phone or a cheap film camera and want something physical to leave on the kitchen table rather than a post that disappears by Monday. The cover holds one photo with your title and a date stamp underneath, set in Space Mono so it reads like the frame counter on a contact sheet. Inside, page two is a full-bleed photo for your strongest image, page three is a single polaroid with a caption line, page four is a three-frame film strip for a sequence (the same street from three angles works well), page five pairs a big photo with a caption and date, page six stacks two photos, and page seven is a quote page for a line from a song or the one thing someone said that day. The back panel carries a small square photo, a sign-off and the made-at-home line.

The off-white paper colour and the warm filter make mixed phone photos sit together as one set; the polaroid frame adds a white border and a little shadow so ordinary snapshots look intentional. Keep captions short, five or six words, so the monospaced font stays big enough to read on a 74 mm panel. Because a zine panel is roughly the size of a playing card, choose photos with one clear subject and avoid tiny detail. Portrait phone photos crop best into the polaroid and film-strip slots; keep landscapes for page two and page five. If you make several copies for friends, print them all in one run so the colour matches across the batch.

Printing this zine is the easy part: it goes on one side of a single sheet of A4 or US Letter (choose A3 or Tabloid for a zine twice the size), so any printer works and there is no double-sided alignment to get right. In the print dialog pick 100% or Actual size, never Fit to page, or the fold lines drift off the panel edges. Plain 100 to 120 gsm paper folds crisply and stops colour showing through; glossy inkjet photo paper is fine too because nothing prints on the back. Fold in half lengthways, fold in half twice more, unfold, cut the centre slit, then push the ends together and flatten. The template uses 10 photos across its 8 panels; the editor shows which slots are still empty.