not been able to update for a while because i lost my password. silly me. the project is now over and i think overall it could have been better organised. due to the lack of funding ideas had to be repeatedly changed tweaked and messed around. originally we were told to produce a design for screen printing where we could use 2 or 3 colours, but due to budget issues and lack of time towards the end we had to change our ideas so that they only contained one colour so i changed my design so that the only colour was red. once i had changed 'final' my idea for about the 5th time dave told us to cut stamps to use for printing our designs onto bags. unfortunately this ended in disaster. i cut my thumb open with the scalpel and sliced my vain open...which wasn't very fun or nice so i had to have a massive bandage on for 2 weeks and this resulted in me not being allowed to use scalpels again. in the end dave just printed our designs onto card and used them as leaflet type things.
this image was my final final design where we could only use one colour. i decided to make the message 'give them hope' because the charity provided schools for orphans, and doing so gives them hope for the future and giving them an education so that they can lift themselves from poverty.
after this disaster we were told to create bags using coloured tissue scraps glued onto card to make goody bags for the people who attended the event. this took two weeks and felt like slave labor, but it was worth it in the end.
on the day of the event itself we were told to sell raffle tickets to win amazing prizes like driving lessons...and a years worth of butter. lol.
however we were all pessimistic because we thought it would be very difficult to sell loads of tickets to students who for one didn't know that they were being sold on that day so didnt bring any money into college and because it was such short notice we were allowed to go to places like sainsburies to sell them because we would have had to talk to the stores events manager and because it was such short notice we couldn't get in touch with her.
regardless of this myself and dan were able to sell about £100 of tickets in just a few hours by badgering people, stalking the staff and kitchen staff and overall being very annoying to get sales.
overall it could have been better organised and developed and due to the lack of funding things were made difficult and it stressed dave out a lot because he couldn't do anything to help the funding issues for materials etc. i was unable to attend the event itself because my nan was ill in hospital ):
but i heard that alot of people attended and in the end everything worked out okay and raised money for the charity.
