Final OSPS Blog!!!

Over a span of about four months, One Stop Prom Shop has been the main focus for all of our Business Education classes. And Sunday was the actual One Stop Prom Shop day, finally ending this four month long project.
The assembly that took place on Tuesday the 26th at our school to market this program to all of our peers. We had a morph suit dance (my group), game show, informational speeches, and tons of free things to hand out! My group, the morph suit team, was to provide the beginning entertainment to the show! We were all beyond nervous before we went on to perform the dance, hearing the crowd....we knew we had one shot to get this right. Overall the dance went great! The moment we started dancing our nerves vanished, we had a couple of mess ups but nothing that was too noticeable.
When Sunday rolled around, we all had had to be at the OSPS location at 10:30. The morph team had two dances to perform while we were there, one at 12:30 and 1:15. The entire OSPS event turned out great, I thought, because there were tons of venders, coupons, dances, fashion shows, free gifts and TONS of people showed up! This event was even featured on the news!
My personal thoughts on it, is that, I'm honestly happy and a little relieved that it's all over. Practicing the morph dance everyday...got a little old pretty fast. But also, in a sense, I miss it.

One Stop Prom Shop Harlem Shake

In the major process of promoting the One Stop Prom Shop, our class as well as the two deca classes decided to take on the task of doing to Harlem Shake. A silly yet creative dance that's been a viral internet sensation. Check out our video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsnTqn35TI&feature=youtu.be

One Stop Prom Shop!!!

One HUGE project we're working on now, is the One Stop Prom Shop! It's exactly as it sounds, finding every prom need you could possibly think of, prom dress, tuxes, flowers, ect. But this is a lot more complicated than just shopping, A LOT of hard work and effort goes into this. It requires all three of our deca classes, our IMDD class is the creative minds behind it. We have to think of plans for an assembly at our school and other schools in the district, to advertise people coming to this event. I am in a group called the "Morph Group" this group, as crazy as this sounds, must memorize a dance and perform it during the assembly, in front of the ENTIRE school. But the reason we're called this is because we are in morph suits, a full head to toe spandex suit. Exciting and totally nerve-racking at the same time. Our dance is around seven minutes long, nothing too crazy, but there is 12 people in this dance group and that's including me. We've been using our 4th period class as dance practice, we all head to the stage and practice for an hour. Our mission....to make this dance look perfect! The morph's are the entertainment aspect of the assembly and kind of the character of One Stop Prom Shop. Our idea this year was to outdo last year, by making is bigger and better. Last year there was three morphs so we added 9 more this year to get the bang effect! We're also going to have confetti cannons, balloons, a game show and a stop motion video.
I'm excited to be apart of this, this year but it's very time consuming. By the end of it, it'll be so worth it.

Working With A Business! Woo!

Everyone in the class was given a task of creating a business letter, sending them out, and contacting a business to work with and create designs for. I and another classmate took a different route, we were asked to create the school's band video. A massive project of all the band video's throughout the year and create a DVD, along with designing a DVD cover for it. This is still an on-going project and not yet completed but I'm excited to work on it and design a cover for the DVD case because the cover from last year is not very good, so my classmate and I plan to make it a lot better.

Bis dann (Until then)

Yearbook Covers

Last week, we were given probably the most annoying project I could've thought possible. I made it through my creativity block just to stumble again. Our project....yearbook covers for the school. We had almost no rules for this project besides that it must obviously make it school related and to have, "Every Ending Is A New Beginning" on it. 

The school's mascot is 'the black tigers' so what I did for both of my covers was put tigers on them, trying to make it in a unique way....but how creative can you get with a school yearbook? For my first design, I wanted to stay true to my brand identity. So I found a cool picture of a tiger and used threshold on it, then filling in all of the white with the school's color of yellow. The font was the harder part. I'm still not 100% crazy about the way I have the fonts, it was hard to put two long sayings, "The Cuyahogan" and "Every Ending Is A New Beginning" on one small cover. 

For my second design, I used another tiger (Natürlich) but in this photo I just used the sides of the tiger and wrote 'The Cuyahogan" down the middle where there wasn't the image of the tiger. After that, I just adjusted image settings to it, to give it more of a glow and to bring out the oranges. 

Black Friday

In less than two days, the day that workers dread and shoppers crave is here....Black Friday! The biggest shopping/marketing day of the entire year, where thousands of people crowd into stores such as Wal-Mart, Target, Apple, ect. to get their Christmas shopping completed at a low cost.

The term "Black Friday" originated from a marketing stand point, where a store is once again 'out of the red' meaning, a store usually spends more than it makes in profit, putting it in a 'red' category, which is bad! So on this huge shopping day, with low prices and tons of promos, businesses usually all return to a 'black category, returning all of their profit.

Every year people camp out or create massive lines outside of stores waiting to be the first to get amazing deals. But things are going to be a little different this year, Forbes recommends three useful tips and changes happening in this years Black Friday. 1, "Consumers Crave Mobility", this meaning each year, the number of online Black Friday shoppers has increased by 371 percent, so having an online option is always important. 2, "Customers Want "Couch Commerce" again, about an online option, more than 50 million Americans visited an online retail site on Black Friday. And by this it drove $816 million in online sales alone. And 3, "Success Centers On The Customer Experience", working in retail myself, this is always a big saying that is pushed. Workers need to communicate with customers with promos and make sure you can show them the best product available to them and their needs.

This year is going to be a little different for big stores such as Wal-Mart and Target, with a new opening time of 9:00 (21:00) on Thanksgiving day and each store will have  special items that will be sold at a low price. This year, I will not be taking part in Black Friday because like most retail workers on Black Friday, I have to work. Fun...not.

Business Letter

My latest task in my IMDD class was to create a business letter and a letterhead to go with it. This was annoying and kind of difficult to do (writing a business letter is not a strong point of mine)  In the letter we had to introduce ourselves, explain a little about the class and then explain why it is that we sent the letter. Of course, to offer our design services, we have to follow up with our possible business partners and discuss any future business partnership we may have. :)