Creativity!
This week we began the first of the longly awaited apprentice challenges. the brief was sent to us in advance to prepare a ideas which we then talked about in our business groups and came up with a pitch.
when i had initially read the brief for the challenging, i was slightly lost by what i thought the client wanted. this was in a way addressed when they spoke to us in class.
My team came up with a lot of ideas and plans for the business but we did not win. our feedback mainly suggested that while we had m,any ideas, we should have formed a strategy with them. The whole task was interested but the day was really long, i felt that many people were faded by the end of the day. Hold the Front Pages won!, well done guys. i was really impressed with their very very organised plan.
I am looking forward to next week challenge, and while i did enjoy this marketing based one, i am looking forward to something that is more within my realm of knowledge and gentle expertise.
Passport2guides this week, meet on Tuesday. I had spent most of monday running round Kingston speaking to shops and trying to take pictures. one of the problems that i came up against, was that no one really wanted pictures of their products taken for fear of piracy. still i left some details and showed them the website and luckily two stores contacted me back.
I was then able to take pictures as well as make new friends at Octopus, they were very friendly and after talking to them about what i had done in my previous shopping page article, they agreed to sponsor one of our competitions with the gorgeous panda bag. Six visits in two days later of course.
This when we meet up on tuesday provided a well needed boost for the team. we spent the day shooting the advert that Corinne has asked for that week, got some interviews done, spoke about the format of the competition and its marketing campaign.
All in all, this was a very good week for Passport2guides.
