Lesson 20

02.10.15

Talking to people

Today Emma and I got to talk to Nick, a Psychology student. He really liked our idea but was slightly unsure about how some of our activities related to mindfulness. When we explained to him that we were going to get the students to focus on something in particular during the activity to keep them focused on the present he understood much better. He said the way we explain the activities to the students who are going to do the activity will be very important. He also said a lot of our activities involve play which is very beneficial to peoples well-being.

We also got the chance to talk to Mark's daughter. She was 13 so a little younger then our 16-17 year old target audience but we figured we could get some good insights none the less. She said that she found it easy to meet new people as she was open to meeting new people and found it especially easy to get along with people who had similar interests to her. She said she found it easiest to get to know new people when she is put into a group with people she doesn't know and that talking to people is the best way to make new friends. This was very interesting as this is exactly what we plan to do for our event- split people up into groups with people they don't know but share common interests with. This gave us lots of confidence that we are heading on the right track.

Emma and I also started exploring pop art to add to our brand aesthetic. We want to merge this style with our current had drawn style to maintain the honesty we feel it portrays. We think by merging this with pop art will link our style with super hero themes much better as well as making it easy to add some humour to our designs. We think this will appeal really well to our audience. We showed some of our aesthetic material to Mark's daughter also which she was really positive about.