Friday, 19 March 2010

Friday 19th March 2010

Friday 19th March 2010

This day we had another group meeting with our fellow peers, and discussed more Ideas. We then decided to note down every Idea for all of our main concepts.

VIDEO REMIX
Remixing vedios and sounds from the daily grid on the workplace to replace with the fun and bright images of helping people due to my 10 days.

PROJECTIONS
Project Images onto office blocks
Show people what they are missing-what they can do to help

My 10 days-10 things you can do before you die-linked in
Do something you really want to do and combine it with helping people
Get out of mundane
Leave work for a fresh start
Get to do stuff you really want to do
Help people instead

Sponsorship?

Swimming with Dolphins
Great Wall etc......

Viral Video
Pictures
Website
Screen-saver

Do what you want, raise money for charity and GET PAID!

DECORATING TREES
One tree - linking to logo-
Adam + Eve =Temptation...but GOOD

Boxes hanging from tree
(10 reasons for leaving work for 10 days)

Put in Office space - Fenchurch street?
- Trafalgar square?
- Embankment?

Signs Saying 'Pick Me'
People see it on their lunch break
Pick up info and then tell people about it

Make reactions to it via a viral video for facebook/youtube etc

1 seed 1000 routes
branch out etc......

Thursday 18th March 2010

Thursday 18th March 2010
This day we collaborated with Andy Warrender and Charlotte Trimm to experiment with a public display, we wrapped a tree in the My 10 days colours!




Will be linked to youtube soon :)

Tuesday 16th March 2010

Tuesday 16th March 2010-Group Meetings

This day we just showed our ideas to a selection of students to see what they thought.
This is the feedback we recived from it:

Get video into Odeon?

Ring companies for free stuff?

Second of time-make up 10 days?

10 days
Disseminated networking
Unique
fFexible hours
Profession

Try and get free stuff?

Monday 15th March 2010

Monday 15th March 2010

Just a meet and brainstorm of Ideas at Sams house before she had to go to work.

(sams notes)

Scientific effect of why you feel good? ----Super heroes? ---- video mix-tape?

TREE IDEA

Donate money/trees
10 days in a row
Saying about info
10 reason?

Tax deductible - trees/printing.....putting boxes in trees in/around London displaying information on My 10 Days.

1 seed 1000 roots
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Be a hero
Branch out-Grown Roots?
Stuck in the mud/Get your hands dirty
Get stuck in
Get your seed planted in charity
'Leaf' work alone

PROJECTIONS

Words
Pictures of places
Onto building etc
Showing people what they are missing

Tag lines=16000 reasons to leave your job for 10 days-PAID
Need an excuse to get away?

FAG BREAK

Something to look at your fag break?
Interactive?

MAIN IDEAS
Tax deductible
Superman - Becoming a hero
Trees - Putting them in an area ADAM+EVE TREE OF TEMPATION
10 Things to do before you die
Projections

Friday 12th March 2010

Firday 12th March 2010

Met up with various groups and discussed our ideas on what we feel the general feedback was of Still waters run deep.
(I haven't put my notes up, they're pretty boring.)

Then, we were at Sam's house discussing ideas. Here is a brief version of her notes as there were many!

10 days - contact charitys every 10 days?
- stories?
- seeing all about it?
- Epsom paper
- Daily Mail - or other newspapers
- co-operate responsibility

Email them - approach them

Email - Digital space
- Vedio

Ask people to print them for free?

BRAINSTORM
Way to get Message for Free
Projections
Something big and bold - Act of doing something?
Word of mouth
Vedio - make sense of campeign
Grafitti?
Web
Email
Getting People Involved

Testimonial Vedios? -one every 10 days?
- getting everyone invoved, what its like to take 10 days off

'My 10 Days Experiance' - Projecting

10 things to do before you die
get out of the mundane
see the world
experience life

10 things to do:
Swimming with dolphins
Great wall of China
Safari -Africa
Sky diving
Bungy jump
Runs
Making up events
Scuba-dive
Kilimanjaro
Orient Express
White Water Rafting

SOUND
Office, reppatition, keys, writing, computer, beeping, fax machine.... Name something, people want to join = 10 days off!

Tuesday 9th March 2010 (Meeting the Client)

Tueaday 9th March 2010MEETING THE CLIENT!
(Sams Notes)

Due to experience-can take 10 days off

Soft power
Was born from this

No money-no branding
Volunteers?
Internet?

Challenge – Young people
- Hungry to see work
- Not got a gap year?
- Lobby boss?
Social media

P.R./Press Release LOCAL PAPER?
Marketing
Networking (facebook) Rage against the Machine
Breast Cancer

CSR Strategy

Awareness 20-35 years

Tone of Voice-Friendly

Sponsorship?

Social Media-Paperless as Possible

BNI

Redundancy (my 10 days?) 3rd sector agency

Reward Service – My 10 days as a REWARD

TIPS ON GETTING A JOB!

NETWORKING – getting alliances

Portfolio-Keep Feedback
Be brave
How you can help them
Start a conversation

Employers – ‘Organized volunteering’, ‘Just Giving’

Portfolio build a NEW database

Monday 8th March 2010

Monday 8th March
1. Met at Uni for talk on the unit and were told which briefs we had to do
2. Made a research portfolio on the brief and the client ready to meet them the next day

(Sam's Notes)

• Edited joint portfolio
• Project management
• 4 presentation boards + presentation?

*ASK AT LEAST ONE QUESTION*

Before client brief – Questions (lots)
- Observing the meetings

Clarification of the brief
Letter – 1A4
Putting the conversation with client into writing. Identifying changes/additions to brief. Ensuring all clear requirements reducing risk on our part.

Project management
• The Brief
• Clarification of the Brief (latter)
• Gant chart (for tutors)
• Record of every tutor and client meeting
• Proposal (1A4 at END)
• Joint Portfolio
• What else to include from research?

80/20 rule?

Decide
Write it down
Set deadline
List everything you think you need to do.

Action plan
• Plan work
• Work back from deadline
• Break down so tasks are bite-size
• Add in everything you think you need to do
• Build up time for Murphy’s law

Time management-Peer evaluation

Analysis
Why, what, where, is it appropriate? Target audience? Tone of voice? Comparison with? Self reflection?

Still Waters Run Deep Notes
Lee Stevans - Gets and keeps clients
Gary Lin - Head of Design
Simon Aronson - Web technology
Anna - Designer
Anita Brightley-Hodges - Head/founder/creator director - also of My 10 days

Photography
Grids
Cropped Photography