Progress Report, November 8

Progress Report
November 8, 2007

Public Relations Event: Book Fundraiser for library at Providence Christian Academy

Overview:
Our project is moving along well. I am pleased with the communication that Sharon and I have been able to have about our ideas to put forth towards our project. What we’re doing take a bit of creativity and organization, and I have no doubt in my mind that we are on the right track with implementing the skills that each of us has with organization and creativity. Our ideas just keep getting better.

Work Completed:
We decided that instead of having a graphic drawing (produced by Sharon and I) on the back our t-shirts we want to take a photograph of a few of the students from a young class at Providence Christian Academy, gazing up at a bookshelf with very few books, and have that printed on the back of the t-shirt. This would express their need for books in their library. Sharon visited Tiger Town Graphics after our meeting while I went to another class and got some prices on different designs. It turns out that the photograph idea is going to be a little more expensive than a graphic drawing, so I think we’re going to draw up a graphic for them to use and keep the shirts two colors only. We are going to offer our class the opportunity to buy a shirt for cheap to help us afford the costs. We’re hoping to get about 10-15 shirts. We have the flyer complete, and we want to use the photograph that we’re not using on the t-shirt on the flyer, so we’ve just got to add the photograph to the flyer, get it approved by Professor H., and then get it approved by the University for distribution. We chose an event name, “Once Upon A Time Book Collection” as well as a slogan for the back of the t-shirts, “Happily Ever After Begins with a Book…”. These names sort of stemmed from a font that Sharon saw that would work perfectly to convey our message. The font is called Odette, and it’s a fairytale-like font. That will be used on the flyer and the t-shirts so that everything is somewhat in sync and able to be associated easily by the eye. We are going to start putting together our digital portfolio, which we will do through Google Page Creator.

Next Steps:
We thought that the book drive in Emily Yelton’s honor might mess our book drive up, but I think we are going to be ok. We have already gotten replies from the classified that we placed in The Tiger. People are ready for us to pick up some books! We have to finalize the flyer, distribute the flyer, create the Facebook group, solidify the t-shirts, get the t-shirts made, and poll our class on who would like a shirt. We have spoken with a few pizza companies about pizza for the day of the “party”, but we’re going to take each day step by step and wait until some holiday specials might strike up on pizza in the area. We got the date of our presentation approved by Professor H. (November 27 at 3:30 p.m.), so now we just have to check back with the 1941 Studio to make sure it’s still available. We also need to make sure that we collect photographs for what we need photographs for. That’s a work in progress. We need to start compiling the stories that we are going to use from a class of students at Providence to make our “story book”. We will also start producing our slide show for the party/presentation soon, as we continue to collect photographs.

Conclusion:
We are very busy at the moment, and will be for the next few weeks, but having people already contacting us about the book collection, with books to donate, has secured Sharon and I’s feelings about being successful with our event. For distribution of our flyers, we want to try to extend our areas that we cover to outside of the university and go to some of the neighborhoods that might be cleaning out their closets as the holiday nears; we thought this would be another good way to involve the community. We toyed with the idea of sending a campus-wide email out a while back, so we should touch back on this idea and see if anyone around campus will step up to donate that way! Simplicity, consistency, and creativity continue to be the driving forces behind our work.

*Pictured above is what our font will look like on our t-shirts and flyers. It is called ODETTE. :)