Barcamp Vancouver 2007 Adhack Session on Uncle Fatih’s Pizza

This past weekend at Barcamp Vancouver James from adhack wrangled a session called Zero to 30 Seconds in Less than 1 Hour or So You Think You Can Make an Ad?. I thought the title was clever but I did not think we could actually make it within that time frame. He was adamant. This was a pretty ambitious plan. Is it possible to make an ad in 60 minutes? Yes it is!

During that session, which was by far the funniest one during Barcamp, we separated the class of 20 people in 3 groups. Each group was equiped with a laptop (with video and photo editing softwares) and a digital camera. The goal was to take any product or service that we had access to within Workspace (the physical office space we were during Barcamp) and make an ad with it. It is Do It Yourself (DIY) advertising. Since we had dozens of empty and near empty pizza boxes along with actual pizza slices of all kinds from Uncle Fatih’s pizza, I thought that was the most appropriate choice. So, we all started to make an ad for Uncle Fatih’s, a very popular pizza place in the Commercial Drive area. After 15-30 minutes of idea generation, there was only 15 minutes left to execute the ad. We had to choose whether we would do a video ad or a picture. Then, 10 minutes later, we came up with this:

The other groups came up with different concepts. Please find them here. 

That was an ambitious plan but we pulled it through. I can’t wait to do this exercise again. It is way more fun in groups than the individual work. Stay tuned for other Adhack sessions.

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1. A DemoCamp Vancouver event some time in mid September. Need to spend some time talking to Rob Lewis / TechVibes about helping out with organizing these...I’m trying to shed as many organizing roles as I can, while still promoting / attending / etc. I love all this stuff, but it don’t pay the bills…
   

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