Facebook Group

Yesterday i created a group on facebook for my campaign i added all my friends and so far i have 151 members and its only been up for about 24 hours, i was really surprised as i didn't think anyone would join and just ignore the request however i was pleasantly surprised when i noticed people had joined.

Campaign posters

These are my 2 campaign posters for my campaign which is 20% discount for students worldwide, however i did think about changing the target audience to a smaller one so something like the UK. The posters were quite easy to design on photoshop as they were simple images and the typing was fairly easy to, the only thing which was difficult was getting the pictures on top of the ipods and rearranging the ipods to look the way they do.

Research a petition

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/teenage-jobs/?signed=f88e9cc.eb9be7

The link above is to show that i have signed a petition for "making it easier for teenagers (13-18) to get fairly paid jobs."

i choose this petition becasue i totally agree with it i thnk teenagers ranged from that age group have the right to have a job as they are older enough to cope and its nice to be independent and be able to have your own money instead of relying on your parents. I am lucky as i have had a job since i was 14 and it was quite well paid but i do feel that everyone esle should have this oppurtunity as its just as fair.

Research on my own campaign

My campaign is 20% discount for students worldwide on clothes and electrical's.

There is a student union known as NUS they are there to try and improve the lives of students and also the people in the union too. They have said that there mission is "Our mission is to promote, defend and extend the rights of students and to develop and champion strong students' unions." quoted from their website.

There is something called an NUS card which is what students from the age of 16-19 can apply for you have to be a college to apply for it as it gets sent to the studnet union rep at your 6th form and this gets you 10% discount at selected stores in the U.K.

There are also things like NUS abroad so international NUS,

From doing research on my first campaign idea i have realsied that my audience is quite big and to be honest is not really achieveable , so i have changed my audience and slightly changed my campaign idea my audience is now the U.K and the idea is to have 20% discount for students on clothes and eletricals however i think it would be a good idea if i worked alongside the NUS team as they already have a good system going i just feel that they should broaden which shops your allowed to use the card in and maybe hae a few more shops which sell diffrent thing for example somewhere like john lewis as they sell electircals clothng acceorises etc.

Researching a campaign.

We have been asked to research a campaign from the following website 

http://cambridgeanddistricttradescouncil.blogspot.com.

I have chosen a national campaign which is about saving jobs from the recession and things like that. the website for this is www.righttowork.org.uk  

there are smaller campaigns which link into this one big one which aren't actually national and have been campaigned about locally such as the POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE and also the SAVE JOBS AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 

the campaign I'm researching is about keeping peoples jobs that deserve them and making big companies pay more tax as people who are really wealthy have not had to feel the recession as they still get their bonuses and they still get to keep their jobs and don't have to pay half the tax that people with a standard job pay.

They have done loads of conferences for this campaign there is also a lot of stand they have done i.e thousands rage against new labour in brighton.