Meeting No.1
This is the last meeting before the Easter break so where
was an awful lot to cover; we started off with the magazine draft. The Magazine
Team had done more research and it would still cost fortunes to have two pages
per person, due to this we decided to have a go with one person per a page to
see how that looks and coast to see if it would be worth it for the money saved
and have this done over the break. The next was a few points I had with the Octagon
Centre, the first one was the large about of broken or flashing lights and whether
or not they could be fixed before the opening night, the Venue Team responded
by saying they would ask and see what they could do, next was about the popcorn
machine I had notice placed at the bottom of the stairs which lead to the area
we have to work with and whether it is owned by the Octagon and could be moved upstairs
for the exhibition as it could be pretty cool attraction to have a popcorn
machine at the exhibition, the Venue Team also said they would ask and get back
to us. The last topic I brought up was whether we could use the catering
glasses at the collage but the rest of group responded saying that if you use
the glasses you also have to hire out the hospitality staff too, this would be
one hell of a fuse and simply not worth it for glass glasses and would be much
better just to get plastic. The next topic was the window vinyls that would go
in the large bay windows, in the meeting we had already decided to have some variant
of the logo on the poster put up in the window but size hadn’t been decided and
it has mostly come down to cost, with the large A3 prints costing £30 each and
the A4 costing £14.30 each, after quite a heated discussion between the Venue Team
and the Design Team the smaller print was decided upon. The last topic was
catering and weather to take the offer for the £1 cupcakes with trey backs from
the Café, after some talk it was decided to have a look at the prices of Costco
cupcakes and Asda cupcakes again as these still seem to be the best alternative
but we wanted prices just to be sure.
Overall it was a highly productive meeting which was definitely
helped by the great communication between everyone and the fact that everyone
was comfortable talking and discussing the topics that where brought up, though
maybe hindered a little bit by the small argument over the price of vinyl
stickers even still though the fact we had managed to sort it out was great, as
well as moving forward with the catering and booklet and just overall being a
productive but uneventful meeting which is great I hope it keeps up.
Meeting No.2
We decided to have a small second meeting the next day to
make sure everyone knew what they were doing over Easter and that everything
that needed to be sorted beforehand was. After growing though the room it was
clear everyone knew what they were doing, however the Social Media Team where
unsure as to what they were doing and unable to really post anything as no one
had sent in photos to post, so we made it homework for everyone to send in
images in the next week and for the social media to being the previously
discussed plan of a row of three per person and really start laying on the
social media and really start advertising. Next to come up where the quotes on
the leaflets at £65 for 400, we all thought this was a good price but we re-evaluated
how many leaflets we need and decided 400 for 20 people to hand out was a bit excessive
and so cut it down to 200 which would also slash the price in half which is
great as they are unsure yet of how much the Banners, posters, and stand up
posters are going to cost so we really need every penny.
In conclusion everything was set up right and we were ready
to head into the holiday with a good idea of what was happening after yet
another successful meeting. The only thing I would improve about this meeting
is the handling of the budget as I do feel we should have a price for posters
and banners at this point and its disappointing we can’t move on with that and
is beginning to hinder the project. Overall though it was still successful and
the project is still heading in the right direction.
The Layout Planning
The first thing we did for the layout was complete the
detailed plan, for this we immediately set to work on creating the Graphic
Design Department space. To start with we all draw up some base designs taking
inspiration from the previous layouts, personally I struggled to come up with
anything I liked and as we just wanted to get the design finished at this point
before the break so we just continued with what Tasha and Paige had drawn up
and I just helped them develop there quick designs instead after trying for 2
hours.
Paige’s designs where very similar to that of the Photography designs
but where much more open plan and had a bigger space to them to accommodate the
large amount of Graphic Design students. Tasha’s designs sported a strong back
wall where a lot of the work would go, and then a few free standing islands to
complete the design and help create the pod/spaces appeal of previous designs.
After
a bit to brainstorming and throwing around ideas we eventually came up with
this as our final plan, overall I’m satisfied with it but I feel it could have
been better but at this point in the process we are heavily hindered by time and
as a cause of this the quality has suffered, but I do feel it is still
perfectly useful and adequate.
Afterword’s we drew up Fashion which simply
consisted of a row of boards supported at the back; this would be to hold up a
students work and display it in a row. Now the other fashion student was originally
going to go in the space with her but has now come out saying she wants the
small box room space to display her stuff, this does throw a bit of a spanner
into the works but we can work with it and move the feedback space elsewhere. After
all of these changes the last thing we wanted to do was to show the design to
John, john being the man who generally takes reasonability for the boards, we
showed him the designs to make sure they would be structurally safe and not be
any sort of hazard. He said that everything was good apart from the set of boards
for fashion which would need to have some sort of curve in them to make the
structurally safe.
Overall it has been a really productive few days for the
layout and I’m just glad that we have our full detailed design which we can
show to the whole group on the say we come back and hopefully they will like it
too. The only thing I wish we could do better is to be able to spend more time
one it but at this point it needs to be done and when we come back we really
need to start working on the budget and what we are going to need the verse
what we aren’t going to need and sort all that out.
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