Year 13 class meeting their client

My NCEA Level 3 Design and Visual Communication class are going to be doing set design as their first major project. It was time to meet with their client this week so they know where to start taking the drawing work they are involved with at the moment.
We had a lesson on Friday where we sat all together and came up with ideas for questions that could be asked. We shared all of these onto one document so the meeting with the client could be a group experience and not an individual thing.

Client Questions for meeting 1

• What do you want us to design?
• Do you have a specific theme that you would like us to work to?
• Who is the target audience?
• Where will the designs be used?
• How big is the area that we need to design for?
• Is there any specific specialised equipment that needs to be taken into account?
• How many different scene transitions will there be for us to design for?
• Will we need to design movable elements?
• Is there anything that you don’t want or don’t like?

Before our client arrived on Monday morning, we sat together with the printed out questions and decided who was asking what. They then had a practice run through. Everyone was expected to contribute to the interview and ask at least one question.

"do we have to memorise these miss?"

No... It is not a memory activity. It is talking with your client face to face and finding out what they need you to do.

They were quite quiet during the interview and not very confident. They told me they were nervous before our client arrived. There were some "pauses" and quiet gaps but on the whole, it went ok. They now have somewhere to start with their project work. I have shared this video with them so they can include it on their project Google sites as evidence for the client meeting.