Week 1

We started class in week 1 with a lecture about Koha, designing for good and transmedia. For this project we have to choose a topic, either 'get to know your neighbours' or 'clean up the beaches' and then design a poster, flyer and website that works on both mobile and desktop with at least 2 pages.

Our first in class exercise was the Simpsons Exercise, where we worked in groups of 4 to make some quick thumbnails for the two topics aimed at two different Simpsons characters. We were given Apu and Homer, so based on their lives, interests, concerns, we chose to aim clean up the beach at Apu, as he is a vegan so he would care about the animals being harmed from dirty beaches, we decided to target him in the poster by using his religion. Then we chose Homer for the get to know your neighbour as he likes food so we could easily get him involved with the incentive of a neighbourhood BBQ.

These are the two thumbnails we ended up with:



 This thumbnail was another iteration of Apu's beach clean up because he has 8 children so their many hands would make light work.

Then we chose another character, which was the Comic Book guy. We decided to try to get him to come to the beach clean up because it might be slightly more difficult to get him there. He isn't really an outside sort of person, who does things for others benefit. We came up with the idea of a cosplay clean up, where you dress up as your favourite comic book hero and be a hero by cleaning up the beach.
  

We also got given a random word and random phrase to incorporate into the thumbnails. Our word was tree and our phrase was "better the devil you know than the devil you don't".
 


After that we split off into our pairs to decide on what topic we wanted to choose.
We decided to go with Get to Know your Neighbours.

We want to aim our neighbourhood get together at university students, and we thought a really good way to get them involved would be to have a "Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse Party" as apocalypse and dystopia themed things are quite popular right now. This is also a way that we could get uni students prepared for a natural disaster. A lot of the things you would need for an apocalypse are the same things you need if there was a major earthquake. Things such as having access to food and water, being able to make it without electricity and having other people to rely on are some of these things.

Reverse Project plan-