if you carry a knife, then you are in so much trouble

Yet again I am currently working on another team project, one that yet again is a video based project. I don't mind as I have enjoyed working with the channel project with Ross. Now I am working with Conner and am enjoying this too and believe we are on our way to making a strong final outcome.

At the moment the 3rd year Graphics class are doing individual projects for the Roses Awards Competition. Roses has sent out a number of briefs, given out by various design company's to present different and unique pieces of work. Twelve briefs were given out for us all to choose. The one Conner and myself have decided to tackle is the brief on knife crime.

"Knife crime is on the increase and Scotland is already the murder capital of Europe. Present a film concept (or a storyboard) that will make teenage boys think twice about picking up a knife before they go out. It should speak to 11-17 year old boys from poor backgrounds who go to schools where there are gangs of youths who already carry knifes. They know the boys who carry, but so far they have never carried one themselves. Consider that this is a low budget 15k project."

The reason I chose this brief was because it stood out the most to me, a bit more of a challenge, the problem with speaking to the tutors was that they said no one had ever won this brief, design companies still have not been able to come up with a strong idea that would make people think twice about carrying a knife. For this reason Phil and Gordon decided we should team up and work together on this. To be honest we were both quite happy to do this as individually we would most likely have struggled.

Right now we have come up with and idea and a style to produce for our storyboards all we have to do is get all the filming and photography done, edit it and place it on our boards. I am enjoying this project too as the more experience I have working in a team, the better I will get at working with others, and like how we both have the same sort of ideas is making the project seem more appealing and we believe it will be a good one.