So...Myself and Stefan decided to try and get ahead of the game and get some book crit's in down south..the big smoke! We travelled to London early monday morning with the intentions of seeing Mother and Wieden and Kennedy, Unfortunately Mother cancelled on us...we partly expected this due to there workload they mentioned they might not be able to do it, its just the way the advertising world is. Anyway we travelled to Wiedens and entered for our first crit. It went really well, Sophie and Ben who we saw gave us some really good feedback on our work. We then were in a bit of a dilema with where we were staying as my friend Barry told me we could stay at his but he wasnt answering his phone, i phoned Sam my brothers friend and eventually made our way to Wanstead to later find Barry calling saying he had left his phone as his girlfriends, we just stayed at sams monday evening.
Tuesday was a big day for us, seeing both Ogilvy and Saatchi & Saatchi X. We made our way to Saatchi's to which i had been for a visit before..sitting waiting for Ant melder to arrive only to find he was with his wife having a baby, so we saw a guy called Dan, the feedback couldnt of gone better, not only that but because he liked our Starbucks work he gave us a live brief for Starbucks to work on (more on than later).
We then headed to Ogilvy after some lunch and shopping in central london, Again a place i had visited before but it was a first for Stefan..amazing building. We were taken to the creative team we were seeing and again great feedback from them, giving us tips on how to improve and what they liked/disliked. We then went back to Barrys and went out on the evening to celebrate stefans birthday.
Wednesday, we headed to central London where Wcrs were situated, only to find they had cancelled on us, after some emailing and persistance we managed to see Tom which was a relief, really good feedback from him as we felt he was just really honest on what he liked and disliked and what could make our work better. We then made our way over to Grey who to cut a long story short cancelled while we were in the reception..apparently they had sent us an email, nevermind...4 out of 6 is really good and a great experience.
