Week 7 was dedicated to reading and production. We decided to have a meeting to track our
progress and further plan on the things we need to focus on regarding the artefacts.
Our initial plan for the three artefacts was a video documentary, a guerrilla
projection campaign, and an ad busting poster. During a class activity we were
asked to come up with a simple LARP game which helped us to come up with two suggestions
out of which we chose to continue with the one based on Model UN. As all the
group members liked that idea for LARP we decided to include it in our
artefacts. We already had a plan for the documentary and poster campaign, we
were in the process of brainstorming ideas for the Guerrilla projection and were
struck on how to plan and execute it, so we decided to drop the projection
mapping from the artefacts instead we added the LARP activity as our third
artefact. The reason for this is that we already had a rough outline for it and
only needed to expand on the outline by framing the rules, implementing, and
documenting it. We set the weekend as our deadline to finish the LARP activity
by fully developing it.
Poster Campaign
After finalising to go ahead with the LARP activity we
started to work on our poster. The aim of our poster campaign was to make
people aware of the employment issues faced by international students in the
UK. We wanted to keep our poster very simple and straightforward to get across
our message to our audience. In today's world digitalized world and everything
circulating online posters and pamphlets do not have the momentum they used to
have unless they are attractive to capture the attention of the audience. Our
target audience were the international audience primarily; hence the plan was
to come up with something attractive to grab their attention to come and have a
look at our poster.
The sign ‘Hiring now’ is something most of the
international students and graduates are looking for continuously all the time
for survival in an unknown nation. Being international students ourselves it
was easier for us to come up with certain ideas that could resonate with our
audience that lead up to put up the ‘Hiring Now’ now sign to indicate how most
of the job agencies put those wordings in large bold letters to attract the
students for part time and graduates for full time job but in reality though they get the job the shifts are
scarcely available making them ‘ employed but jobless’ which is another form of
unemployment. Through the poster we wanted to establish a statement thus we
started to come up with suggestions for captions and came up with few of them.
We finalised on the statement that ‘Decent work is the need of the hour’ posing
a question of agreement to our audience and planned to invite them by adding
the details of the LARP activity we will be conducting after developing on the
outline and plan of action. Instead of separately inviting the audience for the
LARP by including it in the poster we thought that we could get their attention
on both our artefacts in one stroke.
Video Documentary
For the video documentary we had started filming
ourselves whenever we had our meeting outside class and filmed the in-class
activities we did during our lectures. The aim of our documentary was to record
how we collaborated with each other from deciding on our SDG, gathering the
artefacts, researching, and finally implementing it.
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