Upon returning from our trip to London, myself and James were offered a job as a creative team at The Clinton Partnership. We had been recommended by someone from Mccann Erickson which goes to show that hard work, contact and placements can gain you recognition and not necessarily with the agency you do the placement at.
Unfortunately, as we were working at Driven for 2 weeks and also have to do our Final Major Projects, we were unable to move or stay down there to work there. However, we sent our portfolio to them and they liked what they saw. They then said they would still like us to work with them and we arranged a freelance project where we would work from home and send our work over to them and we would then review how well the project worked even though we weren't actually there.
We worked on a 2 day rate on a brief for a Hot Pepper Sauce company and came up with mainly sketched out ideas in that time, as well as some slightly worked up versions to show how they might look.
We had some great feedback and we spoke with a number of them via a conference call which was a new experience but it shows that you don't strictly have to be in a certain place to be able to work for them.
Three core ideas were picked out which they wanted us to push and they gave us the option of working on a new brief for the same client. We said yes and have spent the last 2 days working on our ideas and mocking them up. We then sent them over as boards ready for them to print out and show the client. We are awaiting feedback on these ideas and are hoping the client goes with one of them so we can produce the final product.
At the moment it has been hard to fit the projects around other work and university commitments but it has been a good experience to work as a freelancer as I have never done it before and it can only benefit me for the future. I look forward to working with the Clinton Partnership on future projects if this is possible.
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