24th December
To begin with, I organised all my briefs into separate calendars - also including calendars for general uni events, as well as life, and deadlines too. To ensure I am as organised as possible, I gave these an order, listing them by projected deadlines, as well as designating them a colour.
Following this, I looked at the time available to me within these few months. As I will normally be looking at my calendar by month view to see the month ahead, I have blocked out periods of time under the project name, this allows me to see by glance which project I am working on at any one time, and also allows me to see if I have given myself a proportional amount of time to be working on each project.
Then, under these sections, I have divided up each project into research, initial designs, development, final designs, blogging & design boards. This helps me to gain clarity and a better understanding of what tasks I should be doing each day.
In terms of deadlines, most final deadlines (aside from competitions) are set as the 7/05/19 as this is the final hand in date. As for the most part I will need to complete projects one at a time as opposed to simultaneously, I have set myself interim deadlines. This is also handy as I am planning my working hours around a busy month in February, so will need to have briefs completed before this.
2 briefs that I am completing are competition briefs through uni, one with the deadline of the 14th Jan, and one 28th Jan. As these are small briefs, I am awarding them an average of a week each to be completed over Christmas holidays and the first week or 2 in January. Within the Christmas holidays, I am also meeting a client for his branding project, and my collaborators for our publication project, so I am getting the ball rolling for those projects at the same time. I can set deadlines during these meetings so I will know the timescale for these projects, and continue to fill in the rest of the projects in my calendar regarding these.
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