11/9

what

Johnny, Christina and I had met outside of class to start talking about the press release. Johnny gave us a good idea of what it should look like, Christina wrote most of the text for it and I compiled a list of media outlets in the Richmond area that might be interested in covering the event. So in class, Johnny and I started finalizing the press release. Mostly just going line by line and reading each other sentences to make sure nothing sounded funny. As part of the exhibit design group, we also went over some sketches for the signage. I made a template for the art pieces tags to make sure they went with the signage then distributed that file to the art group.

so what

This class period was the first where I was juggling myself between two groups. It wasn’t overwhelming but it was a new experience to begin working on two different aspects of a project at the same time. Dealing with media outlets, I realized its important to make sure its even possible that they can publish the event. With this time frame, a magazine published monthly probably wouldn’t be able to get it out in time. Though we did decide to send them the press release anyway just in case anything could happen.

now what

In the future I will make sure to always keep time frames in mind, but in this situation I really dont think it would have been possible to get the press release to some of these outlets. But it did make us realize that not everyones schedule worked with ours.