Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Roles in the Group
Adam: Animation / audio / photography
Beth: Storyboards / art direction
Dan: Photography / audio
Hayley: Typography / graphics
Jenny: Typography / graphics / writing copy
Laura: Storyboards / art direction
Collectively we would, generate ideas and develop the concept, research, all ensure everything is in place for the presentation.
Beth: Storyboards / art direction
Dan: Photography / audio
Hayley: Typography / graphics
Jenny: Typography / graphics / writing copy
Laura: Storyboards / art direction
Collectively we would, generate ideas and develop the concept, research, all ensure everything is in place for the presentation.
Rationale
Our group decided to choose to present ideas on how we could approach the NSPCC brief. We mainly chose to do this as we had the best outcomes from the brainstorming we came up with, and we decided that we could all have an input in the final outcome.
We decided that if we were to actually do the brief we would make an advertisement and a series of billboard posters. We aimed our advertisements at the male audience between 18-40 as most of the previous adverts from the NSPCC have included children and we thought we could take a new direction and just have adults to explain the message we want to give out.
We set it in a pub, the atmosphere smoky, dark and in an old fashioned traditional pub. We thought this is a situation that many males could relate to. Three friends would be sat around a small table, two women and a man. They are talking about their children and how when they get home they will “teach them a lesson”. Whilst they are saying this there will be shots of slamming glasses down, stubbing cigarettes out, etc. You will not see the faces of the adults you will just see the shots of their hands and hear distorted voices. Nothing is given away about whom they are until the camera pans out and you see that the people talking about beating their children are actually women. This is because of a statistic we found that it’s a higher percentage of women that actually beat their children. The man in the group is disgusted with what the women are talking about and walks out and proceeds to make a phone call, to a voice answering “hello nspcc”. Our tagline would be, “Be a man….talk”. We would include the statistics about abuse to children in the way of a voice over.
We decided that if we were to actually do the brief we would make an advertisement and a series of billboard posters. We aimed our advertisements at the male audience between 18-40 as most of the previous adverts from the NSPCC have included children and we thought we could take a new direction and just have adults to explain the message we want to give out.
We set it in a pub, the atmosphere smoky, dark and in an old fashioned traditional pub. We thought this is a situation that many males could relate to. Three friends would be sat around a small table, two women and a man. They are talking about their children and how when they get home they will “teach them a lesson”. Whilst they are saying this there will be shots of slamming glasses down, stubbing cigarettes out, etc. You will not see the faces of the adults you will just see the shots of their hands and hear distorted voices. Nothing is given away about whom they are until the camera pans out and you see that the people talking about beating their children are actually women. This is because of a statistic we found that it’s a higher percentage of women that actually beat their children. The man in the group is disgusted with what the women are talking about and walks out and proceeds to make a phone call, to a voice answering “hello nspcc”. Our tagline would be, “Be a man….talk”. We would include the statistics about abuse to children in the way of a voice over.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
NSPCC Research
Images
logos


Real children don't bounce back
National billboard campaign February/March 2002



Be the FULL STOP artwork, September 2006


External links
NSPCC
Alan Mahon
donthideit
ofcom
Protesters from campaign group Fathers 4 Justice
logos


Real children don't bounce back
National billboard campaign February/March 2002



Be the FULL STOP artwork, September 2006


External links
NSPCC
Alan Mahon
donthideit
ofcom
Protesters from campaign group Fathers 4 Justice
Friday, January 19, 2007
Final Projet Choice (NSPCC)
NSPCC Campaign
Tile:
"Don't Just Listen... Talk"
Aim of Campaign:
To make the adult male population aware of the NSPCC, and that it's there for them too.
Synopsis:
A short TV advertisement highlighting the conversations between men in a pub.
Film
B&W / Tint of Green
Dialogue between two men e.g. "taught him a lesson" and "made sure he won't do it again". With shots of violence towards inanimate pub objects (ashtray/glasses) to signify their violent behaviour towards children.
A third man looks uncomfortable with what he hears and walks out.
Fades to black.
Title - "Don't Just Listen... Talk"
Logo.
Posters:
Billboard and magazine posters to go alongside the TV advertisement.
Would highlight the need for adult men to use the NSPCC to prevent cruelty to children.
Why:
Uses all our skills.
Together we can create a well thought through campaign.
Possible Roles:
Director
Editor
Illustrators
Graphics
Scriptwriting
Camera
Tile:
"Don't Just Listen... Talk"
Aim of Campaign:
To make the adult male population aware of the NSPCC, and that it's there for them too.
Synopsis:
Posters:
Why:
Possible Roles:
Brief Summary 6 : Horror Festival Type Poster
- Need to think of festival name: will be set in Liverpool, something that is immediately going to associate itself with Liverpool
- Beatles, football, ferry, liver birds.
- Change Beatles song words.
- Magical misery tour, yellow scream machine, hard days fright.
- Beatles, football, ferry, liver birds.
- Decide Hard days fright works best.
- Posters use type to depict famous scenes from the movies. Probably use movies such as psycho, the birds, nostferatus.
Brief Summary 5 : Stuff-o-meter
STUFF-O-METER BRAIN STORM
Brief Summary 4 : Orange
Brief Summary 2 : A Day in your Life
Idea: an interactive environment... rather than just reading a blog, the user explores someone's room to find things about them.
e.g. Bedroom Scene:
Notice board (e.g. calendar - updates daily).
Sketchbook on table that you can click on to see the work they have been doing.
Computer to view latest news and films... (could link to other sites)
Radio to hear favourite music.
Pictures/posters on the wall
Diary
Find clothes to continue to next room?
Inspiration: Crimson Room, James Jarvis
e.g. Bedroom Scene:
Notice board (e.g. calendar - updates daily).
Sketchbook on table that you can click on to see the work they have been doing.
Computer to view latest news and films... (could link to other sites)
Radio to hear favourite music.
Pictures/posters on the wall
Diary
Find clothes to continue to next room?
Inspiration: Crimson Room, James Jarvis
Brief Summary 1 : NSPCC
Create an advertising campaign to get the male population to engage with the NSPCC and understand their role in eding cruelty to children.
Our preliminary idea would be to create a TV advertisement.
Synopsis: Men sat in a pub. 2 talk about beating their kids (banging glasses/ashtrays till they break; representing the kids). 3rd man listens in, then gets up walks out and phones NSPCC. Slogan appears, "Don't just listen, talk", witch NSPCC logo.
NSPCC BRAIN STORM
Our preliminary idea would be to create a TV advertisement.
Synopsis: Men sat in a pub. 2 talk about beating their kids (banging glasses/ashtrays till they break; representing the kids). 3rd man listens in, then gets up walks out and phones NSPCC. Slogan appears, "Don't just listen, talk", witch NSPCC logo.
NSPCC BRAIN STORM
Team Member Profiles
Adam (multimedia art)
Strengths:
Animation/Film/Motion Graphics
Photography
Computer Illustration
Weaknesses:
Attendance
Sketchbook
Drawing
Beth (graphic art)
Ability to break computers
Can make tea & print
Dan (multimedia art)
Strengths:
Interactive
Music/Sound
Photography
Weaknesses:
Drawing
Hayley (graphic art)
Make better tea than Bee
Can use Illustrator, not flash
Jenny (graphic art)
Strengths:
Illustrator
Type
Weaknesses:
Attendance
Laura (graphic art)
Can make random doodles
Play the drums - not very well but it's fun all the same
Photoshop
Photography
Strengths:
Animation/Film/Motion Graphics
Photography
Computer Illustration
Weaknesses:
Attendance
Sketchbook
Drawing
Beth (graphic art)
Ability to break computers
Can make tea & print
Dan (multimedia art)
Strengths:
Interactive
Music/Sound
Photography
Weaknesses:
Drawing
Hayley (graphic art)
Make better tea than Bee
Can use Illustrator, not flash
Jenny (graphic art)
Strengths:
Illustrator
Type
Weaknesses:
Attendance
Laura (graphic art)
Can make random doodles
Play the drums - not very well but it's fun all the same
Photoshop
Photography






