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Typical first notes from a new client. I once worked on an advertorial for L’Oréal that had over forty re-designs. No shit. We stopped counting at forty. It was only a page for a trade magazine.

Cameron Wesley

An honour and a privilege, she says? Shits, giggles and a happy tax accountant!

Patrick Bright

Hope you’re OK, Jem. I’m sorry your binaural project is on hold, after they seemed to love the idea in our pitch meeting. You’ll come up with a world-beating soundscape, I know.

Alyson Lang

Client privilege. They pay to change their mind. Also, that many peeps are going to have that much feedback. We’ll re-design, simple.

Jonathan Danners

Remember this course is all about adapting our skills to the workplace and the commercial world. We can demonstrate how versatile and flexible we are. We’ll sleep on these notes and tomorrow morning meet up in the studio. I’ll bring pastries.

Ludya Parak

Gluten-free and vegan.

Alyson Lang

Can’t make it.

Cameron Wesley

Ditto.

Doodle message group [Private] Patrick and Jem, 29 April 2024:

Patrick Bright

The client has no clue what works aesthetically. All they want is to feed their guests a dose of promotional patter with their canapés.

Patrick Bright

We’ll soon rework the installation. I bet we can switch it up in much smaller ways than they suggest and they won’t even notice it’s not entirely what they asked for.

Patrick Bright

Jem, please reply. I can see you’ve read my messages.

Jem Badhuri

They should respect the fact that my ideas have greater artistic merit than anything they have in mind.

Patrick Bright

I know. Criticism of a passion project is difficult to hear, but we’ll pull together and get through it.

Jem Badhuri

Pull together? Cameron has left. Alyson has stopped coming in. Gela is pretending they’re still here, for the sake of the course. Ludya is only motivated to work when there’s money involved, and Jonathan is a liar.

Patrick Bright

Jem, you’re just starting out. As the years go by, you’ll realise life is not so simple. Things happen, situations arise that you’d never imagine yourself getting into, but suddenly there you are. You have to put one foot in front of the other, rinse and repeat.