During our final tutorial with Mark and Fiona before our Easter break we ran through the ideas and concepts that we had spoken about yesterday, all of which seemed to result in positive feedback. In addition to yesterday's notes, we discussed the idea of job roles/ where people's strengths and weaknesses lay in the group and how we were going to be working over the Easter break.
This year Easter falls at a particularly irritating time, right in the middle of our unit x schedule; we have only just began our research, and haven't settled on a particular concept as of yet, meaning that the addition of this break could cause confusion between ideas and ways of working. Setting up a Facebook group has proved to be a successful way of communication, a piece of social media that is (unfortunately) so frequently used by all.
Our group has expanded over the past few weeks from 6 to 10/11 people, meaning that it's a lot harder to keep one another up-to-date with what's going on and who is doing what. I've never enjoyed working in large groups as I feel that it holds room for bitchiness, therefore when the option to split into smaller sub-groups with an over-arching concept came into play, I felt more than happy to do so.
ROLES: it seemed wise to create a list of jobs roles that were already forming from our research into Design Festivals, using this as a guide for our Easter work:
1. Branding/ graphics
2. Marketing/ packaging
3. Production/ Social media/ films
4. Location research/ mapping
5. Background research
6. Market research/ public communication.
7(?) possible leadership role. As we are working in such a large group, I cant understand why we would possibly need someone to take on this role, however with so many big characters and different ideas still being discussed, it really isn't something that should be set in stone right now.
As I am a maker, I can find it really hard in my own practice to come up with solid concepts quickly. Instead, I enjoy the experimentation and research process of our projects, only after a few weeks then deciding to create a strong theme for my portfolio. I have decided that I am going to be focusing on the physicality of a design festival, as that is where my strengths lye, looking at designers/ artists of interest, and seeing where I can take inspiration for our own project.