Months and Months of Hard Work

     Our class was asked to be part of a large project that Junior DECA has been working on. The project is known as the One Stop Prom Shop. My class was put in charge of running the assembly. In running the assembly we have created a video, dance, game show, and audience involvement. With the assembly, this means we are the final selling point to get people to visit the event.

     Last year, the class before us, danced in their assembly for this event. Though last year they only had three dancers. Our class is going to blow them out of the water, with our twenty dancers. I am part of those twenty dancers. We have created this dance to grab the audiences attention. If we all work together, learn this dance, and give the best show of our lives, so to speak, we can help the goal of the One Stop Prom Shop team - to reach 1,500 people at the event the weekend after.

     Our class was given the responsibility to make the assembly unforgettable. It needs to be the final realization for our school, mainly juniors and seniors, that this event can really help them during the decision making process durng prom season. We are going to create this realization, show the students at our school that it is worth going to.

     I honestly believe we can make the goal of 1,500 people, if not more. We are going to make this assembly an unforgettable time.

The Incoming Business World

A large part of this class is working with businesses out in the community. We have finally started with this project. We were told to go and get the contact information of ten businesses. With all this information, we sent out letters hoping the businesses would want our work. With these people contacting us wanting our services, we are to begin working on drafts of the products desired.

For my business that I am working for, is actually my teacher. She is in need for two business cards. One for a school usage, while the other one is almost a personal use. This project is going to be some-what challenging. Especially working for my teacher, it is going to be difficult. Knowing that she will be trying to teach me and be a client at the same time will possibly be difficult for her. I don't want to let her down. I hope I am able to show her my full potential while working for her.

The Yearbook Competition

The next project we worked on was creating a yearbook design. I believe this was the hardest project yet. With our design having the possibility of being seen by thousands of people when published, this piles the pressure on to our class. This design is harder than it seemed.

With this design we needed to incorporate the title "Every Ending is a New Beginning". It may not seem like it could be challenging to think of a design, but it actually is. Most of the class decided to bring in tigers into their designs. I did the same.

This was challenging for me because the title doesn't bring me anything specific for ideas. The tiger was the simplest way to go with this. Simple is sometimes better than complicated.

The Black Friday Fight

Friday, November 23rd is the busiest day in the shopping world. Millions of people make time to sit outside waiting for the stores to open. In the past, many stores would open very early Friday morning, while this year, things are changing. Some stores are opening Thursday evening. Some people sit outside stores waiting hours upon hours, usually in the cold, in order to get great deals the stores are providing. It has become a tradition for some.

I am not going Black Friday shopping is year. I never have gone. My mom does not like shopping in general and there is no way that she would fight thousands of people on Black Friday. I don't know if I would ever want to go shopping on Black Friday, I might want to try it at least once in some point in time.

Black Friday got its name because in the marketing world it deals with profits for retailers. It is a "red" means the loss of "black" benefits.

This years changes in Black Friday are different than expected. The three changes are one, mobile shopping has increased. This has become strategically important. Two, consumers shopped at online retailers more than in recent years. Finally, retailers need to focus on what the consumers want. Focus on them and their product desires.

Since last year you can see a change in the way retailers act towards their customers. They are willing to help you find what you are looking for. Also, they are better at marketing whant the consumers want, narrowing down the amount of places the consumer can go looking for items. It seems like it is almost a specialization. Retailers are providing ads that are more appealing to buyers. They are giving away incentives. Also, the stores are giving shoppers the same deals online as they do in stores. They are working to create good customer service in stores as well, on this busy and stressful day.

The students of my class were assigned to create a letterhead for themselves and a classmate. While making this business letter, it was difficult to decide what my letterhead should be. The one I chose the design another student created for me. I like the colors and the design. I personally believe it is easier to create something for someone else than it is to create something for yourself.

This letter was not difficult to write. I have been a strong writer and this was rather easy. This is going to be a start to many things to create.

Attention Grabber.

Our most recent project we have done in class this past week is to establish a brand identity for ourselves and a class mate. We had to come up with a a logo, supporting graphic(s), a color scheme, supporting text font, and headline font.

For myself, I enjoy bright colors. I do not have any specific designs that I like for a supporting graphic. The most difficult thing was for me to figure out the logo. I am not usually very picky about things, but for some reason I was especially picky when it came to this project. I believe it is because this logo will be on everything I create from here on out. I can be picky about fonts too. I was rather picky with that also.

For my class mates brand identity, they wanted a cursive type of font for their logo. Their color scheme was going along with their business card - blue and grey. She wanted to have a basic font for their supporting text, while her headline font a simple but different text. She had no preference for a supporting graphic so I just put a design under her initials.

I enjoyed making the brand identities. It was frustrating at times, but once I got into the swing of things I was on a roll. I cannot wait till we start on more designing projects.

Thank You Card.

This is my Thank You Card. I made my card very simple. I understand how to use photoshop, but I don't think it needs to be overwhelming in order to get your thanks across. I used different forms of brushes to make my card. I can't wait to continue expanding our creativity.