Life's A Pitch - Group Manifesto

Today I met up with my blog group to discuss our business proposal before we break up for Christmas. After last weeks session, we went home to write our own manifesto to bring back today and write it again collectively. Only three of us made it today, which did make it a little harder as we had just us to decide what we should write as out collective manifesto. We all read out or personal ones we had done and then we picked out the best bits from each one and started from there.

We were quite thorough with our manifesto today, we spent 1hr 30 going through it to make it as good as we could get, using correct grammar etc. I think it went really well, we pulled on each of our strengths in all the individual manifestos and came up with something that we all agreed to be exactly what we want to say, the only problem is I don’t know if its exactly how we want to say it…  the problem is still the tone of voice.

Our Group Manifesto

We are an online creative community that hosts monthly, themed competitions for UK based aspiring artists. Each month, twelve winning designs are made available to purchase as print based products through [our website name]. The designers also have the option be promoted during that month of sale thorough links to a personal website or social media account. Our goal is to finance a sustainable and profitable business whilst supporting artists and respecting buyers through the means of reasonable commission and pricing. Above all, it is important to us to create an ethical and honest relationship between everyone involved.

It says all the points we have discussed in every session but it doesn’t read as conversation, but more formal. At the end we decided that we would post the work we have done today on the group chat and see what the rest of the group who weren’t here have to add to it and then individually go away to make it more informal.

We have also given ourselves a list of tasks that we all need to do over Christmas, we were originally going to designate tasks to each person but we thought if we all do each task then we could bring our findings together collectively and have a larger body of work, plus we can all record our work that we have done ourselves as we get assessed on what we have done individually.