After a tutorial/ crit session with Amber, our group has changed the direction with which our project is going. As the original How To question was "How to stay healthy as a fresher", we decided that it possibly would be too difficult to promote a welcome pack about staying healthy to students. The subjects and topics we had come up with for the leaflet in the welcome pack were quite generic and the sort of thing that after a bit more thought, we realised students wouldn't really be interested in.
We then decided to focus more on the alcohol aspect of a students life and how to stay healthy or avoid becoming ill while still enjoying nights out. We brainstormed the different things we liked about nights out and came up with the idea of how students manage to collect items they find on nights out.
We think the idea of beer mats which promote drinking healthily, that students could collect is the best way to progress with this brief. We want to create a collection of collectable beer mats that could be placed in different pubs and bars, each with a unique fact about staying healthy while drinking on them. They will be designed to appeal to students, and contain information that students would actually be interested in.
We intend to research into beer mat designs and find research of what we can put onto the beer mats through looking at calorie intakes from alcohol, questionnaires of what gives people hangovers, etc.
