Speaking from experience- Freshers

In order to help me come up with product ideas I looked into freshers week and the kind of things you recieve on the first week. There are a lot of things that students would just discard and through away without even looking at what it is. There areso many leafletsand flyers gien out that to make them pay attention it would have tobe something different, something that stands out from the rest.

Type and Grid

Point scale

Looking at grids and layouts wewereto try and figure out the grid of the newspaper that we brought in. Drawing out the margins, gutters and columns it allowed us to figure out what the grid layouts were. We were taught how to measure these using point size along with mm.

We were also shown how to measure time using point size and pica em. With the given text we had we were to work out the point size, measuring ascender to decender, and baseline to baseline and subtracting this, this would leave you with the leading size.

Speaking from experience- Products

After thinking about narrowing my project down to just food I put down a few ideas of products I could produce associated with it. However, most things I came up with were things that may be hard to produce and put designs onto like cups etc. Also I want to come up with something more original.

Speaking from experience-Products-Problems

After trying to come up with a product, I found it quite difficult because the quotes cover a wide range. Unless I make some kind of pack with different products in it,I'mwondering whether I should make it specific to one area, like food. That way it would be easier to determine a range of products. However there are some quotes that I've gathered which I really would like to use.

I think I will produce another questionnairre to find out what people have learned about food since moving away to uni.

Speaking from experience- Products

I put down a few ideas I had for the kind of products I could make based on the content of the quotes. The problem is the quotes vary in topic and so I am finding it hard to select one kind of range of products I could make. The areas that the quotes seem to fit into are food, chores, lifestyle and other. I may have to narrow this down to one area but it will be a shame to not use some of the quotes as I think they will add some humour and light entertainment.

Speaking from experience- Quotes

After going around the class and asking people for things they have learned since moving away to uni, I came up with some of the best ones I liked and thought would be suitable and inkeeping with the tone of voice of my project. I have selected only about 13-15 so far and so may have totry and get some more to broaden the project.

Speaking from experience- Product

Today we were told that we should come to a decision by the end of the day on what product/range of.
I think the products that I produce will depend on the content that I gather in terms of research. I may want to divide it up into different catergories like food, college, domestic etc.

With the quotes I decide on, I'm going to make a questionnairre for them toensure other people in the class agree and that they will be suitable to use.