Our first step was to make posters and post them up around the AVA building. Sajan drew some funny and weird cartoons and we collaged them together using a photocopier to make our posters. We had 2 different ones, Sajan put one together I put the other together.
Dan, Sajan (I started living with them in September, realised that living with my best friends was a bad idea, I ended up looking after them too much and being annoyed with them as a result, it's much better having your mental close friends a little distance away) and I went to this short class about what running a society within UEL was about and learnt that our society would get a £100 if we filled out a form stating what we do and what our intentions for the year were. We decided to do an animation instead. We used the cartoon characters from the posters, I came up with the script with Sajan and then he began animating. I did a little bit of the animating type drawing to help him out, but Sajan did the majority of it. Then I came up with a theme song, inspired by "Waynes World! Waynes World! Party time! Excellent!". The video came out great:
We've had a really good response to this video, and a fair few people took us a lot more seriously because of it. We had our first meeting, around 15 people came, which was great. We then continued to sign people up by going round the illustration classes, and to make finding our meeting place easier we made another video. This one we wore bird masks and suits backwards, and then faced away from the camera the whole time. This video was made to be projected in the AVA stairwell, which meant that it needed to work without sound. Sajan and I made our bird masks on the friday night, got dressed for it on the saturday and then went to the park in the morning. It was a nice sunny day and a lot of fun to film, then I edited it together:
Then I made the website, I wanted it to be functional whilst also quite illustrationy. We got the background from a fundraiser we ran in 93 Feet East on Brick Lane where I stuck big bits of paper up and invited people to draw on them, and gave them a flier and told them they'd be able to see their own drawings on our website as a way of getting them to check it out.
The website URL is: www.backwardsburd.com
The site doesn't work on Internet Explorer, which is annoying, but it works on Firefox and Chrome, and they're the better browsers anyway. If the website doesn't work for you then I suggest you get a better internet browser.
We learnt that we couldn't afford to print every month, but here's our first Online issue of Backwards Burd:
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