Week 2: 2/5/2023–2/11/2023 | Featured Image by Vivian Li
During this week, I met with the client and my mentor to go over the deliverables for the project. I am working on a workshop that promotes and informs interested faculty members of how they may use an upcoming exhibit to enrich their students’ learning in the Fall 2023 semester. For this project, I have been tasked with producing 3 sets of deliverables:
• 1 poster for the E-Mail blast that will be sent out to the faculty
• 2 monitor slides for the college monitors (vertical and horizontal)
• 1 web banner for the faculty commons website
The meeting took place on Wednesday morning, and I was informed by the client that he would prefer to see drafts by the Friday of the same week as the E-Mail blast had to be sent out on the Tuesday morning of next week. This would mean that all deliverables must be approved by both the team as well as the client by Monday latest. The project is highly time-sensitive, so time management was one of the skills that I developed throughout this week.
On that same Wednesday, I had a status meeting with the team to discuss our progress. I shared my thoughts on the meeting thus far with the team and received feedback on how I should approach the project. My mentor also met with me after the status meeting, and I shared some rough drafts that I had come up with between meetings on that Wednesday. She offered feedback and suggestions as to how my layout can improve with minor changes.
I was hit with another roadblock, however, when I was informed that the client wanted three paragraphs of text to be included in the poster. I discussed my concerns with my mentor as I did not believe that a poster should be so text-heavy. Furthermore, the abundance of text would decrease readability of the poster as I would have to fit all elements (textual and graphic) into an A4 poster, which proved to be difficult. With some encouragement from my mentor, I eventually followed through and produced a few concepts for a very text-heavy poster.
As I am currently balancing the school work of a full-time student along with the internship, I was worried that I may not have enough time to complete both. After the client had decided on one of the few concepts presented to him, I proceeded to create the other deliverables.
My mentor and supervisor advised that I meet with them on Monday before sending any other drafts to the client. As such, my current priority is to complete all drafts for the deliverables so that I can receive feedback on Monday’s meeting.
