Major problems with the year book now, that puts us on the back foot. After agreeing deadlines for copy the client has not met their deadline. We still have sections of the book that haven't been explained properly due to contrasting ideas between students and a tutor that has been to two out of the six meetings.
Having to explain a months progress to him shouldn't need to be happening, and now we are worried about how this delay is going to impact. I've sent emails after the meeting and I am told the remaining copy will be with us on Thursday. It remains to be seen what happens but I will be calling on high authorities if this isn't resolved quickly.
This is a copy of the email I sent to Cheryl last night after the meeting
We have left the meeting pretty confused about what is happening, due to students and tutors having conflicting ideas. The newly proposed section devoted to ex-students seems unnecessary and confusing for the user. These images would work as a backdrop to quotes pages, but this inclusion should have been mentioned weeks ago. We are trying to deliver the appropriate outcome that we would all be happy with but with such tight deadlines and other factors, we cannot afford to change the structure so significantly that it puts the whole project in jeopardy.
The profile and introductory spreads are now in progress, and will be delivered on time. However, the delays and confusions surrounding sections and structures ultimately means that we will be left without direction, which means these sections would have little or no context. At this point in the project it is imperative we are all on the same page.
Our deadline to have the whole book designed is the 9th May. That means we have potentially two more weeks of development before we hand it over to the printer.
We still need a significant amount of copy and images from you to complete the book.
- Acknowledgement page copy
- Quotes for 5x spreads
- Student images (To be shot on Thursday)
- Cover photography (To be shot next Tuesday)
- Outstanding copy for students profiles
- Events/ Work in public copy/images (we still need clarification on what this is going to be) (we suggest doing some sort of introduction to this section)
- All contact details for students
This is a massive list, and we are certainly worried. We cannot afford to waste any more time discussing options and page layouts this close to final hand ins, not just for this brief but for our personal work.
We will put together the final spreads for the introduction, contents and profile pages ready next week and we will send Jaclyne a PDF of what we have next Tuesday. We will continue to liaise with Jaclyne on behalf of the students to rectify the issues raised today.
Dan, Luke and Adam
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