Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Briefing with Fred//Notes & Workshop.


General notes, workshop content and "to-do's" from today's briefing with Fred.

- New PPD tasks will be sent through noticeboard in the forthcoming weeks until the end of the academic year.
- Blog on PPD the sort of work that I want to produce... "When I grow up, I want to be a Graphic Designer."
- Blog vimeo existing motion graphics examples of penguins

NEW ENTERPRISE BRIEF
(See PPD Blog for more details)
Strategy & Presentation//Blog and consider:

- What services you have to offer, and to whom
- ISSUES which need to be addressed for going out into the creative industries
- Blog & record involvement with the group provides individual assessment- the presentation forms the group assessment. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN WORK.
- ASSIGN RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE GROUP (eg, finance, market analysis, rent, costings, etc).
- Consider how research will be distributed with continuous progress.

WHAT I CONSIDER MY OWN PERSONAL STRENGTHS:

- Client contact
- Networking
- Print
- Image
- Finance & accounts
- Market analysis
- Publishing

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- Use marketing terms with informed, evidenced research
- Evidence in an 8-10 minute presentation
- "Life's a pitch!"- create a portfolio, samples of work, etc
- Assessed by Jane Denton, 28th February

BEFORE BRIEFING II

In our groups (sadly having to minimise our fun group of five to four due to numbers, bye bye Eddie [a sad day]), we had to re-group to discuss the development of our business proposition to decide:

- COMPANY NAME
Ideas so far include (along with others, these being the most significant):

BÜK
BOOK CLUB
D* ZINE

- KEY SKILLS THAT OUR COMPANY WILL OFFER
Ideas so far include (along with others, these being the most significant):

HIGH QUALITY TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL PRINT PUBLICATIONS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
NETWORKING AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT DESIGNER

- SLOGAN/TAGLINE FOR THE COMPANY
 Ideas so far include (along with others, these being the most significant):

"EAT, SLEEP, LIVE, BIND"
"EAT, SLEEP, LIVE, PRINT"
"LIVE BY THE PRESS"
"HIGH GRADE PRINT"

TASK FOR NEXT TUESDAY:

Create a press ad for our company which will be published in 'Creative Review'- find out about costs of advertising, formats, our price plan, costings, etc (and blog design development).

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TOP 10

- Sequence can come from the idents, or vice versa
- Subject matter and theme should now be established

FOR CRIT TOMORROW:

- CLARIFY CONTENT - VISUAL MATERIAL - SUBJECT - THEMES

"crystalise concept and design direction for visual feedback"


PRESENTATION
design direction- relevant to all aspects of design/design proposal

- Take primary and secondary source material to show boards of where you're heading with your designs.

NEED TO DEFINE...

- Subject/'Top 10 things you need to know about...penguins'
- Specific content- facts, figures, statistics, quotes, etc
- Visual content- images, diagrams, photographs, type
- Visual concept- fonts, colour, texture, tone

- Explain my choices, and why they have been chosen

*ASK BETH NAME OF 'DISPERSE' TYPEFACE*

- Discuss visual interpretation- the "feel" you're going for
- A range of material coming together
YOU CAN USE...

- Experiment with media- scan, photocopy, textures
- Colour swatches
- Non digital media/formats
- Title, channel, time, day
- What's the story- and how do we make it convincing?

Decide HOW you want it to look- dependent on channel, target audience, etc.

- Composition
- Colour
- Content

BOARDS TO PRODUCE:
(presenting tomorrow)

1. SUBJECT- Theme, title, certain categories that I am considering- perhaps make my subject more condensed/specific?
2. SPECIFIC CONTENT- Facts, figures and quotes to be included. Decisions to be made about TV channels, time it's on, target audience.
 
3. EXISTING WORKS- Inspiration, other forms of graphic design for visual representation
4. CHOSEN VISUAL CONTENT- Images, type to use, etc. Visual decisions to be made. Soundtrack (look at CBBC theme- xylophone?)

5. VISUAL CONCEPT- Fonts, texture, colour palette.

KEEP IT SIMPLE

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