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Hello Class!

Welcome to Week 13 of Advanced Strategies in Illustration!  ( I Still think I messed up the week to week breakdown :/   ) 

AS ALWAYS ALL course materials, both the Class Session and our Guest Speakers will be RECORDED… just in case you miss the Live Class Session or just feel like a rewatch!

WEEK 13 CLASS PLAN:

Session 1: 6-7:15 pm

CHECK IN: – How is everyone feeling today?

DISCUSS:

• Class Countdown- ONLY 3 more weeks! 
• Final Project Timeline
• Final Project Strategy : Research a method of “Publishing” your project.  This can be Festivals you intend to send your film to, or creating a Kickstarter Campaign, or pitching to Cartoon Network,or to Scholastic, or perhaps making a sales pitch to Hot Topic.  The goal is up to you, but you need to come up with a clear END GOAL.

CRITIQUE:  In Small Groups:

• Show your TIMELINE and the work you have produced for this week.
• Feedback on the work? What can be improved?
• Discuss: Did you meet your project goal for the week?  Why or Why not?
• Begin to formulate your overall STRATEGY.

REPORT BACK: 

CLASS POST to OPENLAB:  Create a blog post together on CLASS POSTS on the OPENLAB.  In it please report back about the status of each person’s project answering the above questions.   Add an example of each person’s work to the post.

Remember, Making and Keeping a project timeline is part of your overall project strategy grade.  The deadlines you set are the DUE DATES for your homework.  SO, think hard and be sure you are being realistic. 

—- BREAK!—-

Session 2: 7:30-8:30 pm

GUEST SPEAKERS:  Jerry Gaylord AKA “The Franchize”, Penelope “Peng Peng” Gaylord

STUDENT MODERATOR: JASON V

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And in case you misplaced the class session invites…Here you go! …

SESSION 1: Work in Class

Topic: COMD 3633 PART 1
Time: Apr 2, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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SESSION 2: GUEST SPEAKER 

Topic: GUEST SPEAKER
Time: Apr 2, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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WEEK 13 COURSE WORK

DUE to be completed by WED May 7th 11:59PM

CLASS POST: Be sure to complete the class post begun in todays’ class.

DISCUSSION:  (Carried over from last week!) Continue our discussion on sample pitches. (uploaded to COURSE FILES) Pick them apart in our class DISCUSSION.  Consider things like:

• What works and what doesn’t work.
• What commonalities are there between the samples?
• Is there a shared tone?
• What things to all or most of them do?  For example, do all of them establish their place in the market?  Do all of them cite other works for comparison?
• What differences are there?
• What take-aways do you have from reviewing them?

SKETCHBOOK: Read this POST

FINAL PROJECT:  

Prepare a Pitch Packet, Deck,(or other industry appropriate format) to market your creator owned, original concept for further development or publication.

You must not only come up with the IDEA, you must also come up with all the SUPPORTING MATERIALS to demonstrate that idea, and a PLAN of whom to show it to when you are ready.  So in essence this is a 3 part project.

DUE NEXT CLASS: Please email a PDF including the following:

• Final Project Strategy.  Research a method of “Publishing” your project.  This can be Festivals you intend to send your film to, or creating a Kickstarter Campaign, or pitching to Cartoon Network,or to Scholastic, or perhaps making a sales pitch to Hot Topic.  The goal is up to you, but you need to come up with a clear END GOAL.
• Project Pitch revised!
• Project TASK LIST &  TIMELINE

Establishing a realistic schedule that you can stick to is part of the project grade!