fairfax youth festival: promotional campaign

The Fairfax Youth Initiative is devoted to creatively connecting young people, schools, and the Murray Mallee community, since 1997. The organisation hosts an annual festival called the The Fairfax Youth Festival. The festival delivers workshops, performances and events to promote inclusion and exploration of creative potential for young people in the Murray Mallee. This project outlined the requirement for a promotional campaign to be designed for the 2023 Fairfax Youth Festival. The main aims of the campaign were to increase youth and community engagement with the festival, as well as promoting two major works: ‘Square Pegged’ and ‘In Full Voice.’ Assets provided included the brand logo and style guide by which to have abided.

CAMPAIGN CONSIDERATIONS

Reach remote young people and their support networks, as well as local creatives

Convince up to 40 participants for Square Pegged and 500 for In Full Voice

Refer to the theme for 2023 - ‘Back to Normality’ in some way, question what is normal

Represent the tone of uniqueness and ‘wackiness’/being ‘square’

Opportunities to link to social media

Inspire people who wouldn’t consider it appropriate to participate - break the status quo through interests

Encourage support of youth and community

Travel is an enormous obstacle - encourage families and groups to travel to the event

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summary of project lifecyce and concept development which brought the final proposition

final campaign proposal

proposed visual identity for the 2023 theme and the two major events

application of central idea and visual identity to a marketing strategy

application 1: posters

application 2: instagram

The instagram campaign would promote the annual theme and ‘the big ride’. it would also promote the events that would be showcased

application 3: THE travelling cARD

The travelling card would target remote communities without relying on internet

application 4: T-SHIRT

applicants would receive the incentive of usable merchandise upon sign-up. This attempts to intice viewers to feel a greater sense of belonging.

TO CONCLUDE:

Under the umbrella of ‘The Big Ride’, all of the considerations of the brief WEre addressed.

A multitude of research and refinement of ideas created one major promotional marketing campaign. Execution of ‘The Big Ride’ campaign has the potential to see an overwhelming result in promoting community engagement with the Fairfax Youth Festival and should offer ultimate success.

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