The Event Posters

As I have mentioned in a previous blog entry we made a group decision to have posters designed and printed for the event containing different media job role descriptions.

Due to previous meeting discussions everyone was under the impression that the posters were being dealt with. However two weeks before the actually event no one had mentioned anything regarding the posters and whether the job descriptions researched by everybody had been delivered to the graphic department.
It was decided that Sam and myself would chase the situation and find out what was happening and when the posters would be ready. Unfortunately the person who we needed to talk to was unavailable at the time, but to get an idea on the situation we decided to talk to a the graphic students – to our surprise they knew nothing about the event or the posters!!
Concerned we continued our mission to find out the situation and finally managed to talk to Vikki and Chris (Graphic Lecturers at Weston College). Vikki had previously discussed the posters with two group members and asked them to return to her a.s.a.p with a detailed brief describing what was required. The discussion was taken no further.
Alarm bells began to ring because we had only 2 week until the event and no posters advertising it!! Sam and I agreed with Chris and Vikki we would get a brief , the job role descriptions and pictures to them that day and they would try their best to arrange something.



Thankfully one graphic student agreed to design and print the posters but would only have time to do one design – just changing the text regarding each job role. Due to our limited time scale we agreed to this.

After speaking to Chris on the Friday he told me the posters were nearly completed and would be ready for viewing on Tuesday morning, and any changes we wanted to make we could providing they wouldn’t take too long.
After viewing a prototype of the poster the group discussed the poster and made a few changes. For example: Enlarging the title, adding the event website etc.

After returning the altered prototype to Chris, he then informed me we would need to get some paper for the posters to be printed on – as this could not be supplied by the graphic department due to cost and availability. He wrote down the type of paper, which they required and I headed off to ‘Staples’ to purchase some – but unlucky for us they never had any. Returning to Chris he explained to me he could contact one of their regularly suppliers but was unsure when the paper would be delivered by – which was a problem considering the event was on Tuesday.

After a running back and fourth and getting no where I decided the best option would be to ask Kim for some help on where to get the paper from, finally we managed to locate some and deliver to the graphic department.

The poster looked good but if we had, had more time it would have been great to have some more pictures and a slightly different design as the eighteen looked very similar!

Picture Source

http://www.weston.ac.uk/sites/weston.ac.uk/files/FD%20Graphic%20Design.pdf