Exhibition Project

So we want to get our work out there. We wanna show how hard we've been working, and present the fruits of our labour in a legitimate, professional way. Let's exhibit it.

A a group, we decided that a film showing accompanied by development work in a space outside of the college would push us to make work we were proud of showing.

There were a few considerations though:

Content
Venue
Fundraising
Promotion

Content
What did we want to show? We wanted to show films of a personal nature, self directed with little outside breifing, to display our animation and narrative skills, and visual talents. Any films from previous briefs that were suitable, such as 10 films 10 days, could be shown too.
Any supporting work could be shown too, as we were looking for a gallery space, or any individual illustrations or 3d work.
As for dates, we decided to set a tight schedule in order to challenge ourselves, late Feb, early March sort of time period.
The show would run for a week, with an opening night on the Friday, and regular hours until the Thursday. We will be inviting people for the opening night, but will be allowing anyone to enter on the other days.

Venue
We all looked at different venues to host our work such as summerhall, The Caves,  Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts, The Collective, City Art Centre, Museum of Modern Art, But in the end two caught our eye - Whitespace Gallery, and Interview Room 11 in The Forest Centre.

 (Whitespace Gallery)

(Interview Room 11)

These were the only two that were Affordable, willing to show our work and available in the window we had agreed upon (late Feb - early Mar). With this in mind,w e made a pros and cons list as to which venue we would decide on.

in the end we felt that whitespace was more suitable - despite being further away and costing more, it was a far more accessible and professional environment, more seats, and a more coherent venue structure.


Fundraising
so whitespace costs money to rent. We need to buy wine for opening night. We need money.
Basically, lots of bake sales - our first is due on the 9th of december.
I am talking to folk at EUSA, who have a bunch of money, that is saved up annually to fund student led projects and events, we are hoping to dip into this to assist the funding.
We have also calculated the amount of money we would all need to contribute are we unable to fund it from external sources. Of course, this amount will decrease the more we fundraise.

Promotion
In order to keep costs down, we will probably be doing only promotion only.online. We will make online posters advertising the venue, date, time etc.  These are yet to be designed. We will also make a short promotional film along the same lines. Hopefully this will drive up enough attention for the event.




So thats the plan, now we just gotta do it all.