Once again I have had the opportunity to help out with the ELEVATE competition for Social Change. The original plan was that the work that I helped put into the event back in winter from January to April would allow us to carry on the event in May. However, the world had other plans and due to COVID-19, those plans had to be altered.
Since around the end of July, I again have had the opportunity to be a student director for ELEVATE. The new goal was to hold the event this month in October, and thankfully we were able to move forward with those plans. These past few months have been filled with countless meetings to review what needs to be done and make new assignments. Although most of the posters and fliers were made back when I was apart of ELEVATE at the beginning of the year, those designs needed to be updated to reflect the new dates. As the other members of the visual team are no longer participating, I have been the “solo” graphic designer to help with the designs, and have been able to help change and update our flyers and posters. I have had help from other teammates, but as the only one who has had any experience with Adobe Indesign, the mantle fell on my shoulders.
Here is the flyer I help make/update
However, these last few weeks more time has been spent going through the logistics and planning an event. On October 15th, we held the Kick-off Event to start off the competition. This event was to allow the participants to learn about the competition, as well as form their teams that they will present their idea. In the days leading up to the Kick-off, I was able to help put a video together to explain what ELEVATE is for those who were unable to come to the kick-off or even those who participated in zoom. We were able to film and edit the video in less than a day, and it helped set the tone for what we hope the competition to be like-fun.
Now that the Kick-off event has occurred and the competition is well underway, these next 2 weeks will be us preparing and planning for the Oct. 29th when the teams present their ideas, and then the finals on Nov. 5th. A lot of work needs will be going into getting these events ready to go, and I am excited to continue working with my team to pull it off.
Just for fun, our team has met mostly over zoom, but also in person a couple of times. In one meeting in particular we talked about treats and had some to test out. Here is my team I have been working with!
