Presentation

This is our presentation that we used as a guide to present our final infographic to the class.  

This is the presentation that danielle wrote to script us through when we presented our work. 

How To Maintain A Healthy Lifestyle As A New Student Living On A Budget

This is our final infographic that will be posted through student accommodation for them to hang on there walls. 

Action Plan

After out group crit we devised a action plan to identify specific tasks that needed to be complete in order to resolve the brief. 

What Needed To Be Done 

1. Budgeting statement to go on the a5 card 
2. Exercise statement to go on one of the a5 cards 
3. Powerpoint presentation 
4. Print a5 postcards 
5. Finish food icons for the shopping list 
6. Net for envelope, for the a5 cards to go in 
7. Print powerpoint we are going to read from      

We split these jobs up so to share load equally, me and danielle finished the writing to go on the cards that needed to be finished, as well as printing off the all the cards and the final outcome, danielle also wrote the powerpoint that we were going to read off (which i proof read). Harrison was responsible for the design work and abi did further research.  

After completing all of these these were our final outcomes: 

I feel we have created a strong piece of work that has answered are question 'how to maintain a healthy lifestyle being a new student on a budget' in a clear informative way giving whoever reads it some helpful information that can easily be understood.  

Planning the A5 cards

After collecting that information we started to create different layouts for the A5 cards we were going to make. Planning what was going to go on each one so we could start to create ideas on photoshop. 

This was one of the first cards created, it is the first one and so states our question and briefly outlines what we are trying to do.  We felt the layout of this card was hard to read with the writing on the right so edited and came up with the one below! 

This was some research put into a graph on different smoking prices, we decided after creating it that to show which cigarettes were the cheapest wasn't really advertising a healthy lifestyle, so we scrapped that idea. Instead we gathered information on alternatives to smoking. (shown below) 

These are the foods created in a geometric way so we can display a shopping list card, displaying a healthy shopping basket. The colours used fit in with the colour scheme throughout the rest of the infographic. 

To show the different prices of each supermarket when buying the same food we displayed   them in the layout shown below, this then gives the student the choice of where they would  like to shop. 

How to..

Today we started by asking everyone in the year group how much they had to spend on a weekly food shop. The results to that...

1. £30      

2. £20

3. £20

4. £40

5. £25

6. £25

7. £30

8. £30

9. £20

10. £20

11. £30 

12. £20

13. £20

14. £20

15. £35 

16. £40

17. £40

18. £30

19. £20

20. £15

21. £25

22. £25

23. £25

24. £20

25. £20

26. £8

27. £50

28. £25

29. £30

30. £30 = an average of £26.27

Now we have the average we can attempt to put together a healthy shopping basket to try and fit within this budget. The shopping list will be the minimal needed for a person to get through a week. 

Shopping List 

Milk, Egg, Butter, Cheeses, Bread, Pasta, Chicken, Salmon, Apples, Ham, Lettuce, Bananas, Oranges, Pepper, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Carrots, Tinned Tomatoes, Baked Beans. 

Prices at different supermarkets 

Tesco - £25.94 

Asda - £29.45

Sainsburys - £33.65 

Morrisons - £

Other factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle can somebodies life choice, such as smoking, where excessive amounts can be spent, so from this research we found the cheapest cigarettes, but so not to seem like we are promoting smoking we found a number of different alternatives to help people stop smoking and save a lot of more, but most importantly to maintain a healthy lifestyle. 

Cigarette prices + alternatives to smoking 

Sterling - £3.38

Lambert and butler - £3.37

Mayfair - £3.65

Marlborough Gold - £4.03

Benson and Hedges - £4.04

Richmond - £3.68 

Amber Leaf - £3.74 

Golden Virginia - £4.30

Cutters Choice - £3.68   

Alternatives 

Nicorette Patches - £6 

Electronic Cigarette - £17.99 

Nicorette Gum - £5

Wrigley's Chewing Gum - 44p

Polo Mints - 49p

How to...

BRIEF 

As a group of students you are to  identify a problem from your individual research and provide an answer to it.  

The question our group had been given to resolve was, 'How to maintain a healthy lifestyle being a new student on a budget'. 



BACKGROUND/CONSIDERATIONS 

Who needs to know? 1st year students 
What/Why do they need to know? To keep fit and healthy, making the most of university life. 
How will you tell them? Through the use of info graphics creating a visual representation of the information and data that we collect! 
The work we produce will help to educate and inform the audience on maintaining a healthy lifestyle on a budget. 

To start we created a mind map and answered the questions shown above, we decided to split the question into 3 sections, achieve a healthy lifestyle, maintaining that lifestyle and sticking to a budget, to make the question more manageable and easier to understand. 
We then also came up with a few ideas that we thought could help answer the question. 

Next we assigned each other tasks to carry out, mostly to gather research so we could put together some ideas the next day. The research consisted of, food prices, alcohol units, healthy lifestyle definition, activities/gyms, to go to/take part in, smoking/ drugs and budgeting. 

Summer Work

This is my summer work, we were asked to develop a alphabet that visually described what we liked, disliked, hobbies, interests ect. I took a very illustration route because that was something i enjoyed doing a lot. To get the images i did some research into things i was interested in and then selected shapes and images that could represent a letter in the alphabet.

The letters that i think have worked best are H, P, S, V, W, and X, this is mainly because these images have been made smartly and are visually clever. The letters that could be improved are the E, G, J, N, Z this is because they have been made in a rush and are boring. Overall i feel the alphabet has worked really well and provides a strong visual representation of me.