Live Brief... muchos excitement

With the PPRD deadline coming ever closer and my distinct lack of live briefs apparent, I had decided that I urgently needed some live brief action. My success with Dreamweaver in the SBC unit meant I was especially on the lookout for website design briefs to expand my portfolio & experience with Dreamweaver. Fortunately for me, an email landed in my inbox last week from a 3rd year Arts and Events Management student looking for a website designer. I immediately got in touch saying I'd be willing to do the site for her, and we arranged to meet in town and discuss the project.

The meeting went really well & I left feeling enthusiastic & eager to get stuck in. These are the notes I took during the meeting:

• The project aims to bring old & young together - intergenerational
• It involves war veterans - one on one conversations between war veterans (of all ages) & disadvantaged young people.
• The project is called 'Time for Heroes'
• They have enlisted the help of former Poet laureate Andrew Motion (already funded & contract signed) he is going to run workshops / do poetry readings
• They have also got a couple of organisations involved: BCHA - help unemployed/homeless.   BTCV - help youth who have been expelled gain qualifications.
• There is a library currently being built in Kinson, the library has agreed to donate any funds left over after the library is finished to the project, & to display poetry created as a result, as a permanent legacy of the project.
• They already enlisted the help of an illustrator to create images for them (I have been given a copy, people image for background of website but lose the red circle, possibly royal blue or purple instead) but need a logo for "Time for Heroes", possibly including image of a pocketwatch or a war medallion)
• The website is basically for people to go to & see whats been happening. It will include the following 6 pages: About us, Contact, Links (Andrew Motion, Kayleigh Thompson), Submit Your Own Poetry (need a form to submit, or a link to email address), Media (photo's, aiming to create dvd, if so then movie clips), Poems.

I have agreed to start putting together designs for the website and logo, and email Naz for feedback. We will also arrange to meet in a weeks or so to discuss what i've been doing and gain some feedback. So far so good, and i'm really looking forward to getting stuck in.