Ok, sounds good
Well in that case i would suggest this as an action for securing a venue. contacting Secondary schools (the primary market, of interested people) specifically looking at the graphics and design related classes.
get a college/school on-board to offer A) a teacher who can be responsible for the students. there is a legal issue surrounding “who is responsible” for students of this age. For this reason the Adult education offices cannot run classes for any school age students.
Run the class/event in conjunction with this “passionate” teacher, and help them with support to. also try to approach it in a way that their time, and the school facilities
can be donated for free. Projectors, computers…
Advertising would be most effective by targetting these schools graphics classes. and giving out limited information that appeals to the target market exactly… I can offer some experience in “job prospects” and determining what final year students are interested in doing with their lives in relation to 3d, its a time where people are questioning what they are doing what they are expecting the challenges ahead to be…
The content of the event would therefore also become more targeted (i do agree that students is where to pitch the idea. i also think that its the easiest market for first roll-out)
Career options discussion to start… archivis, small animation projects - advertising,
big animation prospects - movies, related fields - Industrial design - graphics design, dynamics and physical simulation, coding for 3d.
Then from there the content can be targeted towards individuals for their different requirements, or for the whole day for the overall feel of the thing.
SMC’s and workshops would probably be limited to being very simple at first, and targetted to “excite” I.e. get them in not at “building a cube” but rather get them involved in “sculpting” with a tablet, or “posing” mancandy. after exciting people so that they go home feeling great and wanting to get into it themselves. you can field specific questions about things like modelling and can continue to talk to the people who are “sticking around”.
But yes it sounds great. and I’m not trying to be controlling
Its a kind of even that RSVP’s would be needed, and a minimum number to go ahead set. I.e. 12-15 people. If that level of signup could be achieved, then I would be more than glad to be there and help out a lot with anything. I would .still come if less people turned up, but my involvement would probably be less useful to anyone, since you all already know your stuff…
Keep up the good work.
Alltaken