Friday of all days... we were both pretty excited about the Wanted Ads, a chance to get noticed by doing some good work and to meet other creative in a similar position - except some of them already have jobs, it was the end of the week and it had been pretty busy one at that.
As described by the last post, we arrived in a rather unstylish fashion, it certainly didn't leave us at our best, running 80% of the way, with the other 20% was spent on the tube...* but we were there, The London Art House.
Once we arrived we were straight in the briefing, the room was quite full with roughly 22 / 23 Teams, from all over. The restrictions were you had to have done less than 3 years employment as a creative. So teams with Jobs, teams without jobs, teams on placements and yes you guessed it, team not on placement.
The brief was for HSBC, World Selection - in short, a savings account where they invest your saving worldwide using their 'specialist knowledge' - a tough brief if I'm honest.
After being delivered to the 'Baroque Hall', along with a few other teams, we cracked on with the work. The day was pretty good on the whole, nice selection for lunch, they provided the pens, pencils & paper along with Tea & Coffee in the afternoon. Around 4 PM the work was halted everyone had a chance to present to a couple of Creative Directors, we had Grant one of the ECDs from Iris and Paul from the Newspaper Society.
The Baroque Hall - but none of the chairs were there.
Overall, our impression of our work, was that it wasn't brilliant, we had a last minute idea which saw the rest of the work scrapped and 5 minutes to sketch up the new stuff. We could have done far better - the power of hindsight though right?
The day was not over until the results, with Joe & Alex picking up on of the prize spots and Enrique & Borja winning for a second time two years in a row! They'll go on to represent the UK in Europe (Hosted in London - what a tough break)...
We had a great chance to chat with some people, Alex, from our first placement at JWT, Jake & Jake, a team from Iris, who we almost missed while we were there, as they were in a different house, but they recognised us, and vice versa - great to catch up with. The infamous Jai & Wal for a good old natter, Dip & Rob from Dare, Paul & Danni who are currently at Inferno and finally Conrad & Alex who have done a fair stint at M&C...
What's more all the work is going to be online this year, it gives people a chance to see what everyone else has done, not just the winners and decide if you agree. Also there will be a viral going out, we can accept no responsibility for the comments and statements made as they were completely scripted, then improvised for the public amusement. We are not 'total' fools.
*Figures are not accurate, in the slightest.
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5 comments:
Great summary of the day guys. Was great to finally meet too. Agreed, tough brief...we've already got our sights on next year, no chance with what we submitted this year...even with a people's vote! Great competition, great people, great day, great slightly-drunken evening. Good luck with what you get up to in the run up to W+K too. Did i forget to mention how great everything is!?
like your account of the day too! bad luck about not getting anything. i will probably apply next year, sounds good but tough! where will the work be posted online?
emily
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/archive/895138/Newspaper-Society-picks-best-young-UK-creative-team/
Works not there, but a summary of the event is...
I've heard the work will be on the Newspaper Society website in the next week or so, the organiser will email the link and the viral to all those who participated..
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