Planning Day

In the start of today's session, we got into groups to plan the look of the flyer. Last week, my group and I came up with brief, initial ideas. Today however, we are going to develop on these ideas and hopefully come up with new, original ideas. Our objective today was to come up with ideas for our advertisement.

Our plan was to produce our own 4 ideas in our group (the ideas were just drafts). We done this by spliting a A3 piece of paper into 4 boxes for our 4 ideas. It was easy to do the first box because in the last session, we had a meeting and we all had one idea each on the meeting sheet. My first idea was milk being poured out of a carton, it gradually becomes hotter when it reaches the Shakin' Moo's cup. Then there is a slogan on the flyer. Next up was the second box. This had something on the flyer which I liked to call a 'hot udder'. So in that case, the flyer had a 'hot udder' and a hand was squirting the milk out of the udder which sprayed out hot milk/milkshake! The slogan says "hot and fresh" because the milk is fresh from a cow and it is a 'hot shake'. I discussed this idea with Mr Hind. He thought that this idea would be very effective as it is original. Then there was the third idea which was a fire-breathing cow drinking a 'hot shake'. You never know a 'hot shake' might be that hot to make you breath fire. Finally, there was the fourth idea. This box was the hardest because I ran out of ideas. However, I knew which idea to choose so I went for an idea which i knew it was not going to work. The idea was a 'explosive, hot invention' (the slogan). This only ment the idea was a bomb going off and the 'hot shake' flying towards us. Who never knows, some people might adore the idea.

In the end, I chose a idea. Mr Hind said that this idea was the best idea I came up with as it is creative and its only the hot udder! So this was on the top 3 list in our group. James was the hot cup with steam coming out of it and Matiss's was to split into to settings; a cold setting and the hot setting with the hot shake in that particular setting. So thats our top 3.

Moreover, this meant that we have to make the final copy of the draft. I tryed my best with my only drawing skills that I had. In the end, the drawing overall was reasonable, I also added some colour to my final flyer idea.

After that, we were given our final task which was the idividual background research. This was about researching about different things which related to our main task (to make a advertisement for Shakin' Moo's). This meant I looked at different milkshake companies, statistics and other things that are related about milkshakes.

Next week, we will be hopfully taking the final 3 ideas on board and will be using them on Adobe Photoshop to make the final, final copy. Our target for today would be to spent less time worring on which 3 ideas we will pick. Overall, everybody has contributed well and I have also done my bit to the task/tasks.