Week 12

Hand in done! And by gosh does it feel good?!

This week was super productive and I'm so proud of how it's all come together.

We went into this week in a pretty good place, knowing what we had to do and with a plan for how we were going to get it done.

Tuesday was a long day and it was pretty much solely focused around getting our dossier ready.
Wednesday the dossier was finessed and test printed.
And then everything happened on Thursday!

We met up at Katie's to finalise our dossier and send it to print, and prepare our presentation.
Stressful times with the dossier but we managed to get in touch with Full Stop who were able to have it ready for pick up this morning. Unfortunately, being such perfectionists we asked for a nice quality paper and we created a reasonably large document so it cost us $60 which was way over what we had budgeted! We practised our presentation over and over and over on Thursday night and got it down to 4 minutes and 3 seconds!

Then we arrive at Friday - today - the final day as a 3rd year - and the final day working on Project Boost.

In terms of the presentations; I was pretty disappointed in how poorly these were run. By the time each student downloaded their file from stream, made it full screen, and presented we were running WAY behind schedule. This meant it was a really long time spent sitting in the same stuffy room. I was also disappointed in the fact that they weren't timed and so a lot of people droned on for a lot longer than 4 minutes. It had been really pushed to us that 4 minutes was the max for our presentation and the girls and I worked really hard to get our presentation down to this timeframe so the fact that so many people ignored this and took way longer seemed unfair and I hope that they do somewhat get penalised for their lack of preparation in this aspect.

Reflecting on the project overall, I'm kind of sad it's over!

There is so much more to Project Boost that no one has seen yet but that's also exciting as it creates this future potential - and who knows? Maybe we will actually get it off the ground one day!

My biggest learning from this paper was the importance of wellbeing and I advocate it now to myself, friends, and family. It is quite a simple concept that we were taught but it is so undervalued in society at the moment but really needs to be present!

It would be hard to pick one thing that I am most happy with for this project. I really love our concept and our angle. Listening to all the presentations today it was really interesting to see that everyone directly targeted their audience in order to get their message across whereas Project Boost targets employers in order to help employees which was really unique. I think we all fell deeply in love with our visual style and we applied it really consistently across all our platforms. I think our touch points were really interesting and am happy that we stayed away from doing a poster and got to do something a bit more creative. And I'm also really pleased with our presentation. I think it was engaging, succinct, informative, and most importantly FUN - just like us.

Thinking about what I'd do differently is hard, I think over the past 6 weeks this project has developed so much that I truly believe in everything we created. Rather than do anything differently, I'd just love more time to do MORE and get a chance to look into the events and the interactions there further.

Overall, the first 6 weeks of this paper were really difficult for me and not very enjoyable and I came back after half semester break unenthused, but I found my way with new team mates and a fresh idea and created something really amazing that I am proud of which speaks a lot.

Week 11

Everything's starting to come together and it's the absolute best feeling!

Monday we got together and did all the activity filming for our promo video which was super fun and the weather was super nice so I'm looking forward to seeing what Lauren can do with it.

Tuesday was a bit of a write off this week as everyone was stressed about Creative Enterprise which was due on Wednesday. Katie did nothing for our project the whole class, whilst Lauren and I planned out our dossier content, wrote the video scripts, Lauren was starting to play with the footage we'd taken on Monday, and I continued developing the journey map.

We met up on Thursday as well as we all know how much there is still to do to be ready for final presentation's next Friday.  Katie and I started working at about 1pm and made some good ground, I started designing the flyer and we browsed some business cards and then when Lauren arrived later in the afternoon we did the re-filming for our landing video.

Friday has been such a great day! Katie's sick and had work this afternoon so hasn't been that much help, but Lauren and I have been powering through this afternoon, finalising our videos/music, flyers, business cards etc. We all have jobs to get done over the weekend ready for our next meet up on Monday morning so hopefully everyone gets their part done.

Week 10

EPIC WEEK!

On Tuesday, we had a super great day in which  I found some really great stats to support our idea, and we built our hologram device. Building that with help from Gus at the Industrial Workshop was so much fun and really exciting!

We were very prepared for super crit on Friday however it ended up being a crazy day. We had really mixed feedback and ended up dropping the hologram idea (which we'd spent so long making!!) so it was heartbreaking, but I also think it actually pushed our idea for the better.

Big couple of weeks coming up, lots to do, but the girls and I are working quite well together and delegating tasks so hopefully we can make it all come together.