Speaking from experience.

This brief was something i was looking forward to from the beginning of the year. We had watched a video when we arrived which was really inspiring and all year long i have hoped to create one myself explaining about my experience in the year...

I went off and took a think about what one problem i had with the first year... It came to me that i didn't have a single problem so i decided to start to list things which got on my nerves when i first started. I listed my own and then contacted my friends within different uni's and asked them some questions... the answers i had back from my friends from, hull, sheffield, salford, Edinburgh where:

1. freshers Flu
2. Learning about how to use the Adobe Tools
3. Knowing that just because you have the best and newest mac doesn't mean your the king of graphic design.
4. Blogger will become your life
5. The moment the program shuts down on you and you didn't save your work.
6. Realizing you don't understand half you classmates due to accents
7. The late nights and Early days
8. Sporting the " il do it tomo" downward spiral of working ethics

Thinking of the above and liking each as much as the last i wanted to create a simple flash video, which would show a figure talking through with video demonstrations all the points above... 

I drew out some possible video scenarios and the narration which would follow:

[ insert sketches and narration]

I then made some boards to show at the crit:

The style of the video i wanted to go with would be like this:

I feel it would be easy to replicate and its good for getting the point across. plus i feel it doesn't clutter or come across intimidating. 

Presenting the idea i didn't have very good feedback, with people not really understanding what it was i wanted to do and coming across as an outcast perhaps from the group i was felt sorry for... Perhaps i wasn't meeting the brief or maybe i read it all wrong

So i went back and had a think about what i should be producing... I didn't want to waste my research and i stuck to trying to think of a design which would include all these points but obviously my video was out.

Then it came to me, looking at my past InDesign layout and decided to try use this again:

My plan is, create a set of booklets / brochures to help students read about the parts of the problems with the corse. These could be a bulk pack of books which could just be taken and read to help.

I decided to create one talking about " sleepyness " which is usually the case with the corse and one i wanted to spend some time talking about and researching on how to stay awake.... 

[ design thumbnails ] 

This is how my finished article would look.

The above is the actual item i will be printing and showcasing.

hopefully if i had more time i would have had them perfectly bound and all finished off. for example:

this would be printed on nice thick glossy stock with spot varnishing to help enforce the images .

Conclusion:
i have presented my work in the final crit and unfortunately the printer at uni cut off half of the images on each page. This made my designs look un professional and made the person reviewing it not notice all the points.

If i could do this again i would have focuses on my booklets and not the video as it would have been much easier and probably look alot nicer.