Back to uni

Well, we officially have 10 days until hand in. And we aren't going to lie, we are bricking it! We still have to do 3 research and development books, a book on crit and placement, print everything out, mount it and finally finish our website...... it's going to be a busy 10 days.

We had an amazing time on placement at Cravens, after doing a 2 week placement we seemed to make a good impression and they asked us to come back. Because of the amount of work we have to do for our final hand in we could only agree to an extra 2 weeks or we would have simply failed our degree. But, them extra 2 weeks were fun and an excellent experience! We ate about 30 bags of sweets whilst on placement and managed to clock up about 200 pages of work. While there we worked on 6 briefs but we were most proud of our Touch Rugby campaign which was mocked up by the digital team and sent to the client.

On our final day at Cravens I was lucky enough to win lunch for all the office from Pret A Manager by entering 'cow's tongue, cottage cheese and tomato ketchup' as the most weirdest but edible sandwich on to their daily competition. As you will guess the office was over the moon with the winning and the lunch was devoured within minutes.

NOW, back to the stress!

Eve

Monday Morning comes so fast

So its Monday and we are back at Cravens after 3 weeks away. We are back working on live briefs and we love it, we never want to leave....... But we must because we have our final ever uni hand in on 3rd June and we have a sickening amount of work to do before hand in.

Last week we spent our time in London, we made the stupid decision (AGAIN) to travel down by night bus (for anyone thinking about it... don't do it! Trying to sleep in the confined space, unbearable heat, running to the nasty smelling toilet to be sick every few hours and battling to stay on your seat with the jerking is worth the extra money you pay for the train). But it was worth it when we got their....... at 6:20am.
First we had a book crit with Angus George at Rapier. After getting lost due to tourist information sending us and hour in the wrong direction we managed to find Rapier and a very patient Angus who had waited 2 hours for us. We must say, he has got to be one of the friendliest people we have ever met, he sat with us for an hour and gave us loads of handy tips about our work and presentation that we are following up, so thank you Angus.

We had just enough time to pop to our hostel have a nap and we were straight back out for UNITE III.

After being lucky enough to even get a place we were very excited to attend. After a warm welcome from Luke Wicker from YCC and a quick chat with Andy Peel we were ready for as many book crits as we could get.

We set up our work, spread out our business cards and put out a box of sweets to lure in potential book crits.

On the night we managed to get a book crit off Proximity, AIS and Weapon 7. We will be keeping in contact with the people we met as they all had great ideas, advice and were are great people so thank you!

E&J