Life's a Pitch: Session One

Task 1:

In groups, make a list of jobs that an Illustrator can do :

We discovered that illustrators are pretty adaptable, although when we talk about illustration in the creative industry, it sadly doesn't exist. BUT, as we are adaptable, it exists in ALL of the disciplines.

'Life's a Pitch' Brief

In groups we have to come up with a business proposal and deliver it as a presentation. We have to think of ourselves as creative practitioners in this instance, not illustrators.

Task 2:

Come up with a list of questions about the brief:

• Is it an actual business that we have to set up? Or a sort of collaboration organisation like no brow?
• Are we going to be finding a problem to solve, or are we going to be given a problem to solve?
• What about budgets?
• Are we going to learn about everything legal? or do we have to figure it out for ourselves?

Answers:

• It can be either!
• We have to go out and find the problem; a solution to a need (gap in the market) we also need to generate work to present, but don't necessarily need to make a product
• Budgets are whatever we need, but we need to go figure about where this money is going to come from
• We will learn about these adult responsibilities.

Task 3:

In 10 minutes, try to come up with an idea for a business plan...

We came up with a proposal to set up an agency to create bespoke murals for events and personal use.

Collectively we decided that this proposal may have potential in the following areas: 

• Thought that there might be a potential gap in the market for this kind of illustration
• There are plenty of events opportunities constantly arising in Leeds
• As the mission statement is relatively open, the opportunity is given to each of us to play to our strengths within the areas of illustration that we are familiar with and enjoy doing.