Events to be confirmed

- appearing on t.v (channel4, ITV, Channel5, Sky News)
- poster campaign (waiting for photos to be developed, printers sorted)
-newspaper print / press (spoken to the Daily Mail)

Brainstorming

Today I have just brainstormed how I could get famous- I wonder if other celebs did this, especially once their fame started to disappear! I think the hardest route to explore will be tele. We shall see, I am feeling quite positive today...

illuatrations in place

This is some examples of the illustrator's work who is going to draw illustrations of me on the wall in House of Fraser. Chris MarcAntonio was in the year below me at school, so I managed to get hold of him through contacts and ask him if he was interested in helping me. His work is amazing so I am really happy, he sounds as passionate as me about it. I know it will be good, I trust his work 100%.

Brief aim of my project

My aim is to

Explore the potential of print and media to become famous without there being a particular reason why.(seems to be easy these days).

I will use various methods to attempt to do this – I have not set boundaries.

To date
Professional photographs being organised
Harrods are interested in allowing me to use a shop window
House of Fraser have agreed to give me a space in the store for promotion

This is my chance to
Get an insight into ways of getting noticed within the industry
test the media – see what companies are willing to help
push my own limits of creativity and test my own skills.

Harrods

O my God, great breakthrough today! I managed to get through to Sarah Southgate at Harrods who is in charge of the window displays. It has taken 2 weeks but she said she will definately allow me to be in their shop windows as long as my tutor confirms I am from the college. This is amazing news as my persistance has paid off! This could get me some great publicity and quite easily too! I will now be in a very good mood for the rest of the day!

contacting newspapers

Today I have emailed The London Paper, Lite and The Metro to ask about advertising myself in their papers. I have asked if I have to do something spectacular to get myself mentioned or whether or not they can just say this girl is to be famous in 12 weeks and here she is! Fingers crossed I will get a good response. I am really excited about what could come from this project. The fact that people are willing to help is amazing but I am sure there will be many that wont along the way.

Progress so far

I aim to become as famous as possible in 12 weeks by exploring and exhausting the potential of print and media.
My project was approved by my tutor last week 'GTS says yes' so within a week I have made quite a lot of progress.
I pestered big companies on Oxford Street with phonecalls to let me have a meeting with someone who is in charge of their window displays.
I got a meeting arranged with House of Fraser on the following Tuesday with very little effort -how easy was that? They have given me a whole display area to do what I want with. (see photo) I could use this as one of my pitches for becoming famous. I then went to Selfridges where I contacted the display team to ask if I could star in one of their shop windows as a live mannequin. The lady who was in charge, Sarah McCullough, was not in however has contaced me since saying they cannot do this as their displays are planned one year in advance plus they have already had live mannequins there before. O.K not so easy now then. I am currently in contact with Harrods regarding the same idea.
I have also contacted the Daily Mail who have said that if I do something quite dramatic that would create a good story, they would definately be interested and get news channels involved, just to let them know.
My tutor from last year at Chelsea has some great contacts within the media and is meeting with a friend of hers from channel 4 tonight and will mention my project to see if they can help at all. I have also contacted local radio stations today and am awaiting a reply. There was a great story in the Telegraph yesterday about what is happening to our celebrities i.e Robbie and Britney in rehab. Maybe I could get myself in there! That would make a true celebrity!