Wednesday 15 March 2017

Studio Brief 02 - Fur for animals - Final Evaluation

Submission Evidence 


Evaluation

In conclusion, I believe we worked very well as a collaborative group, each of us has complete their tasks successfully using our own individual strengths to improve our work and push it to high limits. As a group, we started a research on current 'Fur For Animals' posters to get a bit of understanding and feel for what they are looking for. The original posters found on google images were very brutal and bloody symbolising murder and a couple of them seemed like the campaign is trying to blame people who are buying real fur for murder innocent animals only in the name of fashion. We have also found a campaign done by David Bailey 'Dumb Animals' the advert was about models walking down on catwalk wearing fur coats and when they turn back blood splashes the audience.
As a group we didn't want to go in the direction of scary and brutal approach as we thought that this style of work would be overused, our tutor John suggested us to try to go with a different approach. He gave us an interesting example of the approach which makes people feel scared/ terrified sometimes doesn't work successfully. The example was about the new design for cigarette's packaging which are using only simple dark colours with disgusting and scary photographs on what smoking can do to people who consume it. Despite this gruesome photographs and used colours people are still smoking cigarettes. Based on this example our tutor suggested us to try a different approach which might have more power than this one.
We have also created a range of different surveys. The public opinion was very helpful as it helped to push forward our idea and work and to be more successful as well. Also thought the surveys we gain lots of different opinions and ideas from a different audience.
After surveys and feedback from tutors, we decided as a group the best way of delivering this kind of message would be best thought a cute/innocent and mostly emotional concept. By targeting the emotional side we believe is the most appropriate and effective one. Also, something which people would like to share on social media and feel some emotions towards it. So after choosing our concept, we started from creating a list of different ways through which we can communicate this message.
The brief, deliverable were to create an interactive online inter-user face, which would change people's minds who are wearing real fur. We created a list of outcomes we would like to produce:
- Effective slogan
- Posters
- Interactive advert which would last for 30 seconds
- Social media platforms pages: Facebook, Youtube advert, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat Stories. 
As a group, we produced some really good and successful images of models with the real rabbit. We were quite limited as we only had a rabbit with which we could take photos with. We tried to contact with different farms regarding photo shoot with animals but for our bad luck, it wasn't possible. So we decided to take a range of different posters with the rabbit to give an example of how the campaign should look like and allowing it to be pushed further with different animals in the future.
This brief allowed me to show my photography skills gained through A-level and Foundation course to take successful photographs which capture our concept of cute/innocent and emotional approach with the help of my team members.
When it came to recording our interactive video we had a bit of technical and physical problems. As we were working with the real animal to produce our work. It was challenging to get some scenes done very quickly, we had to record each scene and take photographs which contained a rabbit couple of times just in case when it came to the editing we had a range of scenes and photographs to choose from. To take successful photographs and scenes we had to make sure the rabbit would not be scared also we didn't want the rabbit to hurt the model by scratching them. Also, we had to be very careful as we didn't want the rabbit to be harmed in any way and the equipment around him in the studio. During the filming, we had many trials and errors that we had to challenge yet resolves between ourselves. Especially the video as our storyboard told about the model being outside in the city, due to the real rabbit we could not record it outside as the rabbit might run away. So we decided to project the streets with the projector in the photography studio. This allowed the rabbit to be in the safe place. Once our all scenes have been recorded we started from putting them together creating a basic idea of the final outcome which we showed to our tutor. He said that some of the scenes were necessary and quite similar showing the same thing. Also, he asked us to get rid of the scene with rose petals which supposed to represent a blood in a gentle/friendly way but the teacher said that the scene will not make any sense to someone who doesn't know the idea of it and what kind of message we want to communicate through it. In the end, we were finally able to produce a final video after some cropping and editing as the advert was too long as well.
Our campaign has been called 'Furry Friends or Furry Trends?' We were struggling a bit with the slogan as on the beginning the slogans which we came up with were miss communicated the poster message and some of them did not make any sense at all. After a couple of surveys and tutor's advises we finally came up with the final slogan and title. We made the slogan quite shorter than the title which is 'Friend or Trend?' to make it more catchy and make people remember it.
Moreover, on the end after completing our poster designs and video we created an example of how our work could be distributed through social medias. For this idea, we produced a range of different mock-ups as we thought it was a better and easier way to present it.
Overall I really enjoyed this brief and working with my team as it was an interesting experience. I believe we produced some really good work and worked very well together.

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