OSPS Harlem Shake

The Harlem Shake is a new dance craze sweeping the internet and YouTube world in the past month. All of our marketing classes came together and used this dance/video to help promote the One Stop Prom Shop. The video concept is when one person is dancing with their face covered in a room full of people acting complete normal like nothing is going on. Then, after about 15 seconds, the bass drops in the music and everyone dances. The idea was pitched to our class last Tuesday, we pitched to the other classes on Wednesday, and made the video on Thursday in less than 30 minutes. We were able to release the video the day we got back from our long weekend. On the first day, the video got 898 YouTube views, 205 Facebook views, 45 Twitter retweets, 28 Twitter favorites, and the OSPS Twitter account gained 15 followers. We believe that this video gave us a unique edge on our marketing efforts. Here's a link to watch the OSPS Harlem Shake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsnTqn35TI

OSPS Part 2

The big project that I am a part of right now is the One Stop Prom Shop. The One Stop Prom Shop is a prom trade show. It has brought together our Junior DECA class, Senior DECA class, and IMDD class. Everyone is working together to help make this a successful project. The Junior DECA class is doing all the management-related things, the Senior DECA class is taking care of all the social media, and my class, IMDD, is working on the entire feel of the One Stop Prom Shop and the assembly that we will be having on February 26th. We are also split into two different groups, the video group and the morph team. The morph team is a group of 12 people that put together and memorized a couple dances from the game Just Dance. The video group is creating two videos to show at the assembly. One is prom-related interviews, and the other is a prom-related animated video. I'm really glad all of the students from each class have come together to work on this project!

 

 

OSPS

In our IMDD class, we are helping the Junior DECA class with their big project called the One Stop Prom Shop. Their class needed some help, so they put our class in charge of the assembly to help promote it! Since there are 20 of us in our class, we broke off into a bunch of different groups where we thought we could help the most in. I am apart of the morph team. There are 12 people on the morph team, and we get to wear purple and silver morph suits! We all decided on doing a sychronized dance from various songs on Just Dance. We took bits and parts from seven different songs total.

My Business

A little while ago our class sent out business letters to ten different businesses to see if they wanted our design services. The business that responded was my mom's manicurist's business. She has asked me to design a business card for her, so I will be working on that for her throughout this week. I feel like this will be an easy design for me because I am more familiar with Photoshop now than I was when I first designed a business card a few months ago!

My Yearbook Designs

The most recent project that we have been working on in IMDD is to design two yearbook covers. The theme for this year's cover is "Every Ending Is A New Beginning". We were also required to put "The Cuyahogan" somewhere on the cover as well. Like always, it was a struggle for me to get started with this project. It took me a few days to get going, but then I ended up making these two covers all in one day! I am actually very satisfied with how each of them turned out! I'm not really sure how I even came up with these designs, but I'm glad I was able to come up with at least something for how much I struggled to actually get started with this project!

 

 

Black Friday

In less than 48 hours, it will be Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving that most workers can't stand, and consumers love. I will not be participating in Black Friday this year, and I actually don't mind that I won't be shopping this upcoming Friday because it's a little too hectic for me anyway!

The term "Black Friday" got its name from the sales going from red to black. When a store is in the red,  it's because they have spent more than they have sold. When a store is in the black, it's because they sold more than they bought.

There were three things that changed after Black Friday for retailers last year. One thing is that consumers like to buy online and in stores because a lot of people like to be able to buy things when convenient for them. This year, many stores are putting a lot of deals online and in the store. Another thing is that people like to buy what they want from their home. So, a lot of stores are giving out coupons online for in-store sales. The last thing is that consumers like to have a good over-all experience when they're shopping. If the consumers have a good experience, they are more likely to buy even more than they had planned. So having sales and opening stores at the crazy times that they do will help the consumers shop at the time they want, and still get all the discounts.

My Business Letter

Our latest project in IMDD was to create a professional business letter along with a letterhead. We were assigned this project because we are going to send our business letters out to to ten local businesses to see if they would like to use our design services. I'm going to be sending this letter to businesses that I am most interested in working with, and I'm excited to see what kind of feedback that I get!