Working with Stratstone Harrogate - Overall Experience

Today me and Joe finished setting up our response to a brief set by Stratstone Mini in Harrogate, which involved creating a backdrop of 'Outdoors' scenes, to be displayed at the launch of the new Mini countryman. This was pretty much my first ever established client brief and so I was pretty anxious to make sure it good. 

When starting the brief, communication was a bit of a problem, as the spokesperson for the client really didn't have an idea of what she wanted us to create, eventually resulting in a completely different outcome to what she had originally told us. 

Final Printed Backdrops

After meeting with the clients (and actually finding out what it was they wanted) both Joe and I were really pleased with the majority of the outcomes and felt that we had answered the brief in an effective way, in such a short space of time. 

Backdrops set up in the Garage

Once setting up the images in the garage we were a bit underwhelmed at how it looked - we had designed these images to be used as a backdrop for a car, which when we arrived, found out it was to go behind a campfire set they had built, and so it looked a little out of place and underwhelming. 

Overall it was a great experience in collaborating, meeting real life clients and creating challenging physical outcomes on a budget and for a deadline - however next time I think I need to ask more questions and get a more than clear idea of what the client wants, to avoid disappointment.