Concept

After spending a day trying to come up with as many ideas and different concepts for this brief i settled on using my first idea. This was to help the next first year students make friends in the first week without feeling awkward and forced. For me, and i'm not being arrogant, making friends has never been much of a problem as i have had a lot of experience over my life in mixing in a lot of different groups. Whether it be through work, drama groups, snowboarding groups, teams etc and i haven't had a choice but to make friends. Having said that it is still a very daunting task walking into that room on the first day not recognising anyone not knowing anyone, and thinking that you won't make any friends. This is the reason i want to make it that much easier. The college did do a lot for us in our first week, making us mix etc but i think there are certain things that i have learned from previous experiences that can make it all a little more comfortable.

So..My idea.

The general idea is to create a buddy, and/or buddy system. I want to create something that you would be able to carry around with you that first week and that you could use as a starting point in making conversation. Somehow i want to include information about 'you' so that the person can then go on and stalk to people. I also want there to be a way in which people can recognise other people with similar interests, im not 100% sure how i will go about this, i am assuming it will be some sort of colour code, but again im not sure.

I like this idea because it gives me a lot of room to explore different avenues across a range of different medias. That way i will always have something to do over the coming weeks.

These are the resolution ideas i have come up with so far:

A poster/flyer

Personalised Buddy

A companion

A Pack (possibly with all the above included)