Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Focus Group Questionnaire & responses


Focus Group Questionnaire

What do you like about our product?
What don’t you like about our product?  
Would you consider buying our product?
If no please state why?
How could the product be improved?
How much would you buy our product for?

Focus Group Responses
We presented our product to a focus group of students to see what their thoughts were on our product and to see if they had any comments about our product.


The group responded well to the presentation about the app and understood that concept of what it did easily.
The 5 questions I asked were:
1.    Would you purchase the product if it were to be made available?
2.    Did you agree with the price of the product?
3.    Do you think the product is clearly laid out?
4.    Do you think the target group is appropriate?
5.    Do you think the product would be popular?

The groups raised concerns about needing the internet so suggested a offline app that simply has the bus times, however, our group doesn’t think this is technologically possible, but we will incorporate it into the app itself. We don’t think that this app can be used without internet access, however most students have blackberry’s or IPhones that have Wi-Fi, so the internet doesn’t have to cost money.

They thought the price was reasonable at 99p as we said it was aimed at students, which they agreed is a good age as they are more technological now than they have been in previous years.

When they were told about the competition, they agreed that having an app mainly for the Hampshire area was where the gap in the market was.
They also wondered about the tracking systems and how much they would cost, but from our research we found that buses already have tracking systems in place.

There was a slight issue raised about buses sometimes changing their numbers at certain bus stops, however this could be combated with the bus driver registering their new number so we can track them.
They also wondered about the buying a ticket app and how it would work with a return ticket. A way of combating this would for the scanners to register when it was last used and why type of ticket it would be with an individual serial number. This would mean that the ticket would automatically be deleted after it was scanned at the end of its use. 

At the end of the group, they were asked who would use this app, everyone in the room, including 2 adults, agreed that this was a good idea and that if it were to become available they would get it.

Monday, 28 May 2012

Find My Bus Ap Design Work


Design Development

Logo and App Designs


Look of the App on and IPhone
Find My Bus Stop Feature


Bus Locator Feature

Presentation Slides








Cultural Olympiad Design Work

Bottle Cap Designs
Advertisement To Be Involved in the Cultural Olympiad. 

Development Design Work

 T-Shirt Designs For A Flash Mob

TV Flash



Cultural Olympiad Individual Evaluation


Individual Evaluation
I worked with Becky Pinhorne, and I think we worked well together on the Cultural Olympiad assignment. We both split the workload, for example, I created a few posters and creative images that we could use for the Cultural Olympiad and so did Becky. I created parts of the written work such as the Media plan, Target Audience and the SWOT analysis.
We worked on the Creative Solutions together and we gave each other constructive criticism and feedback on each bit of work that we completed and/or while it was being created.
We used Illustrator the most during the creative process, Word for the writing and brief work and Inspiration for the Creative Solutions mind map.
We set ourselves targets each week to complete at least 1 bit of work each, and we completed the targets each week.
The challenge was that we had to do a lot of research because the Cultural Olympiad was unknown to Becky and I. Then we found that hardly anyone knows anything about the Cultural Olympiad so researching it was difficult. We eventually gathered enough information on it to begin working.
The main achievement was the work being completed, to a standard that Becky and I are happy with. Personally, I think the creative work was the main achievement, actually being able to Create products that get the point of what the Cultural Olympiad is, even though it is relatively unknown, across in a fun and visual way.
I enjoyed the Creative work in this assignment, however I didn’t like the product we had to sell as I think research took up a lot of time, that could have been spent actually doing the assignment. It was a product that was non-existent, even though it had been running for 4 years. The challenge was trying to make it something that people would want to go to and make it look like a good event. 

Cultural Olympiad Creative Brief


Creative Brief
 
 About Cultural Olympiad
The cultural Olympiad began in 2008, and has been running for 4 years in preparation for the finale festival, which is being held during the Olympic games in 2012.
It is a celebration of arts, music, film and dance from across the globe that are being brought together in the UK for a large festival. They have different events that include food, fashion, art, music, literature, dance, theatre or films. From 2008 it has been inspiring people creatively, mainly focusing on the younger generation. They have Radio 1 involved with the festival in there ‘Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend 2012’
It is an alternative to the sports Olympics. The tickets range in price depending on what you want to see. Some of them are free while others can cost £26.50.
Its’ purpose is to be an alternative to the Olympic games. It also wishes to bring other cultures together in one place to see the different ways each culture perceives each artistic form.
 The aims of the Olympiad are to showcase different talented people and also show different cultures, bringing them together. It also brings different British cultures together.
The brand is relatively unknown is because no one seems to have tried to market it well, they seem to have just hoped that someone will stumble across it. There have been a few articles about this event however there has been no advertising, no billboards or TV advertisements to let the masses know about the festival.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths
It has the potential to come across as a great festival. It is aimed at people that aren’t interested in sports during the Olympic months. It looks to be a fun event. It brings other cultures together for what is essentially a giant party. It showcases talents.

Weaknesses
There isn’t much information about the festivals and the things that are undertaken. They have different sections on their website however some of the links to other websites do not work. It hasn’t been marketed well and as a result most people haven’t heard about that it’s been happening over the last 4 years.
The activities could be seen as too upper class and bordering on ‘arty farty’

Opportunities
There are opportunities to make this the next best thing for people who aren’t interested in the sports Olympics. They have opportunities for performers to showcase themselves, they could use YouTube to advertise, this opens up online auditions to take part in the festival.

Threats
The threats are other festivals such as the Isle of Wight Festival as they have marketed themselves well and they let their potential customers of what they have to offer and who, celebrity wise, is involved.
The actual Olympics are also another threat, as they will be running the same time as the Cultural Olympiad, meaning that the Sports Olympics will possibly over shadow the Cultural Olympiad.

Target Audience

The target audience we will be campaigning is the younger generation from 16-30 year olds. We have chosen this target audience because we know that this target audience can also make this even more well known to the country. We have also decided to target fans of some of the artists that are part of the festival such as Giles Deacon, Leona Lewis, David Hockney and Box of Frogs.

 We have decided that with the festival using young musical acts such as Leona Lewis and Plan B it will attract teenagers from the age of around 16 all the way to about 21. It will also attract fans of Leona and Plan B as well as our target audience, this will raise more awareness of this festival too and have more people attend it just to see these acts. As well as musicians there will be famous fashion designers and Oscar winning directors that will still attract more of our target audience that will be interested in the festival activities.

This festival will also be a family event that they can attend and join in with. We know that there are younger families so that is why we want to target 30 year olds and possibly higher. There are a lot of young aspiring people that would come to this event seeing it as a possible opportunity to join in. From young up and coming artists, fashion designers, directors, musicians and dancers it is perfect for the younger generation to give them something they know and can look forward to and join in with.


La Senza Written Work.


La Senza Press Release

For the re launch, La Senza will soon be opening ten brand new stores around the UK. Also Holly Willoughby will be releasing her new S/S 12 underwear and swimwear range at the same time of the opening of the new stores. As a celebration that the company are re opening La Senza are giving customers the chance to have a store card too. At the openings of each store every customer will be issued with a loyalty card, where when they spend they earn points where they will be able to spend and La Senza will also be handing out one scratch card to every customer. Every scratch card is a winner and will have either: 250 points added to their loyalty card, 25% off, £5 off, 10% off or a free pair of matching knickers to a bra set.

The biggest store La Senza are launching is in London on Sloane St. At this store opening, Holly Willoughby will be opening it for La Senza. Also our contestants of the competition “The Face of La Senza” will be there helping out at the store and modelling the underwear. La Senza will have a mini catwalk show at the opening displaying the underwear, swimwear and loungewear and new garments to yet be released. Holly Willoughby has agreed to open the rest of our nine stores across the UK.

La Senza have Holly Willoughby releasing a special range of underwear and swimwear the same time of the store openings. The company have a designed poster for her up coming range that will be featured in women’s magazines with target ages of 18-30 and roughly two weeks before the store openings.
  
The “Face Of La Senza” competition winners will be announced at the London store later on during the year at the La Senza Show. La Senza have advertisements ready to go into women’s magazines and online web banners promoting the competition. The winners will be featured in Glamour magazine on the front cover and a full article on them too. Also the winners will be on the TV shows Lorraine and Loose Women being interviewed about how they become the “Face Of La Senza” and how they feel to be the winner.

For this press release we would have it sent out to national papers such as The Mail. We would also like to send it to all women’s magazines with the target audience of 18-30. we would send it off to the press roughly three weeks before the store openings and the launch of Holly Willoughby’s range. 



Magazine article for the winners of “The Face Of La Senza”

After four long weeks we finally have our winners of “The Face Of La Senza”. From entering the competition, to helping opening the new La Senza stores and walking the catwalk, Sam, Bridget, Michelle and Ellie will be representing La Senza.

The competition looked for two A-DD models and two DD+ models, no height or size restrictions. La Senza did four open auditions in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Birmingham and at each audition they could only put through ten women from each city. After every woman went on to a test shoot where they modelled some La Senza underwear for a photo shoot. The contestants were slowly narrowed down to just ten where at this point they helped out with the opening of the new La Senza stores. The big day finally arrived at The La Senza Show where four of the contestants’ dreams were about to come true. They strutted their stuff down the catwalk in La Senza’s new S/S 12 underwear, swimwear and loungewear before their dreams came true. Holly Willoughby, who was also there debuting her latest range, announced Sam, Bridget, Michelle and Ellie the new faces of La Senza. We have all four girls here today telling us how it feels to be representing one of the biggest lingerie brands in the UK.

Hello and congratulations girls! We are so happy to be the first magazine to interview you on your win on becoming the faces of La Senza. So Ellie, why did you choose to enter the competition?

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And Bridget, how did you feel when you were going through the elimination process? Did you think you was going to get far?

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It certainly was a long process. Michelle, when you opened the London Store how did that feel? You also got to have a mini practice on the catwalk at the opening, was it fun?

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It looked good fun! And Sam, you are one the faces of La Senza! That must feel amazing?

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La Senza must be incredibly proud with the winners and all of the contestants that entered the competition. La Senza spoke to us earlier and said: “Without these girls who entered and to our winners, they are La Senza, everything about them. We are so proud of Bridget, Sam, Ellie and Michelle and all of the girls who entered and represented the company. We want to thank every single one of them!”

Action Plans
La Senza Action Plan
12th January 2012
·      Re-branding
o   Create a new image
o   Redesign the logo?
o   Bring Out a new line
o   La Senza Show, like a Victoria Secret show
  • Make some products affordable but fashionable
  • Bring out a make up range
  • Advertise in Elle, Marie Claire, Look, Cosmo, Glamour, More, and Heat.
  • Offers
o   Store Card, credit card type.
o   Points Cards, £1 = 1 point
o   Buy One Bra, Get the underwear discounted. 
o   Online discount code for point’s cardholders.
o   Scratch cards every 3 to 4 months, when spend over £35, you get given the card and you can either win
§  Money off vouchers
§  250 extra points on the point’s card.
§  10% off
§  Free knickers
§  Free slippers when you buy pyjamas or dressing gown
o   Members get invites to private shopping events at their local La Senza, where they are able to purchase the new season products, before they hit the shops properly
  • Swimwear
  • Model competition to find real models for La Senza, customers can vote for free. 2 plus size DD+ models and 2 AA-D size models.
  • Every season have a magazine come out, showing the new products.
  • Eye masks
  • Perfume
  • La Senza App
La Senza Action Plan
18th January 2012
  •         Student Discount
  •         Twitter Feed
  •         Points card would work online as would the store card
  •         Competition, In partnership with MAC makeup, win £250
  •         Regular survey, 10% off when the survey is completed
  •         YouTube account
  Carry on this Action Plan through to next lesson – 19th January 2012

La Senza Action Plan
25th January 2012
Plans for today are to complete the Media Plan, The Logo and the Promotion ideas, competitions and gift cards. These plans will continue until further notice.

La Senza Action Plan
26th January 2012
Today we went over our Store and Points Cards and completed them, we finally agreed on our logo design, and the scratch cards were started to be created. We feel we are progressing well in the designs. Next week we hope to move on to the Promotions designing, i.e. the model competition and advertisements for the La Senza Show. 


La Senza Action Plan
1st February 2012
We have begun to put all the work we have into the presentation for next week.

La Senza Action Plan
22nd February 2012
After giving the presentation, we have been given feedback.
Becky and I are going to be working on 4 different objectives in the 3 hour lesson, any uncompleted today will be continued tomorrow.
Becky:
  • ·      Logistics of the modelling campaign - Celeb judges,
  • ·      La Senza Show Advertising
  • ·      Design model competition ad
  •        La Senza Magazine Cover


Charis:
  • ·      Magazine Advertisment
  • ·      Website Banners and Ads
  • ·      Description of the store, loyalty and scratch cards
  • ·      In depth problem analysis.
Campaign/Media Plan





Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
ADVERTISING:
Magazine





                                





Web Adverts









PR/PUBLICITY:
La Senza Show










Store Cards/Points Cards









La Senza Magazine










La Senza Model Competition










Scratch Cards












Duration: the campaign would last for 8 weeks before La Senza would re open.


Magazine Advertising

The magazine advertising will take place a month before La Senza will re open. It will appear in magazines such as: Cosmo, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, More, Look, Heat, New etc.

Web Advertising

The La Senza will be advertised on other fashion and underwear websites.

La Senza Show

The La Senza show would be the finally in the promotion, it would show the ranges of styles and what new products La Senza has. It happen every season to show what La Senza will have in stock .

Store Card/Points Card

The store cards would be an alternative, a La Senza Credit Card. The Points Card for every £1 you get a point on the card and they eventually add up.

La Senza Magazine

The magazine will be at the La Senza Show. It offers discounts and they would be available for the first week that La Senza is open.

La Senza Model Competition

The Model competition would be for real woman to compete in. 2 AA – D cup women and 2 DD+ women would be picked to be the new faces of La Senza as it starts in new chapter.

Scratch Card

The scratch cards would be given away with magazines as freebies and at the La Senza show with the La Senza Magazine. These are in a sense, gifts cards with offers.