Speaking From Experience

The brief (in short):
Produce a graphic response / graphic product / piece of work that makes the statement, comment observation, instruction or gives advice about your experience of the first year of the course to next years first years.

Any tone of voice is acceptable, do i want to scare, shock, inform, instruct, advise, entertain or humour them?

I feel as though i should help them as much as i can, simply because the begginning of the course was very stressful and challenging for me and then rest of the class members.

To kick start this brief we needed five concepts, each to do with a different aspect of the beginning of the year; from the studio work to how to deal with sleep deprivation, anything at all.

My five concepts were:
1. The best ways to make fiends
2. How to stay healthy as a student
3. Never be late again
4. Toilet paper
5. Remembering paper formats

After discussing these concepts with our small crit groups a couple emerged as the strong ideas.
The best ways to make friends / How to stay healthy as a student

The Best Ways to Make Friends:
Decided that i could have a lot of fun with this concept. Instead of being serious, i could make a how not to make new friends guide. A couple of ideas for deliverables were a small situation based pocket sized book which they could refer to in the studio. Unhelpful guidance such as;

'sit back and scrutinize everyone in the class by staring at them, but never talk to them.'

This does not have to be book format necessarily. It couple perhaps be a flip pad or swab style book which could hang around their neck. After all that would only add to them looking more strange and hindering their progress to make friends further.

It would be typography based, but could include funny illustrations of an example student acting out some of the situations.

Another idea was a demonstration video with actors acting out how to, and how not to behave around people in the studio.

How to Stay Healthy as a Student:

This would be a more serious piece of work, which would have instructional tone of voice.

It could encompass all areas of health, such as eating, exercise, sleep, work times, socializing and relaxation.

A nice idea was to create an information style graphic personal trainer with tips and tricks for exercise and what to eat. Deliverables included, a calender to refer to in the morning with nutrition guides and an exercise plan. It would also have a day planner to make organisation of the day easier.

However the the deliverable may need to be more portable so they could take it to the gym or the shops so they could refer to it on the spot.

A calender would be good i think, because there are is a set constraint of how it should be laid out. I.e. Date, time and legible.

I try to stay healthy as much as i can, i go to the gym and i eat sensibly, so this would be a good idea to follow through with as i have already got the information about nutrition and exercise in my room. Why bother giving myself more that i need to do...

I think i need to think more about different deliverables though. The calender, or week planner idea is good but maybe by talking to a few people about it i can get a better idea.