Hi I greatly appreciate the honest feed back and encouraging words. It really helps me as this is the only spot that I know of to get critiqued. I really don’t want to go on FB and post these in a forum because I don’t want it to get mixed in or seen w/the actual flyer when we do put it up. So this is my one spot to try and get better.
I appreciate you saying that they are not ready for prime time. I understand that. I see that they are flat and I thought the picture in the background would be better because its mountains and in my head im thinking a mountain is higher ground, get to higher ground, go up, mountains. I liked the picture itself, so I didn’t really want to add a gradient or filter to it and take away from it, but I also didn’t want to make it worse and I wasn’t sure how to blend it in with the information, so it doesnt look weird like oh you just threw a gradiant on a picture then dumped the info and people pic on there making it all kinda look out of place.
Since it was the same theme last year (higher ground) I had to do something different ( last years flyer w/the same theme can be found here: New Flyer - Please Critique )
So the first marketing problem you describe, I can see that and I understand it is an issue. I just don’t know how to go about it (as I also want to start working on marketing and ways to draw people in w/social media as we only put up things on our fb page if we have an event, usually thats the flyer they approve done by me and a 2 min video of them inviting people out to the event -video isn’t fancy at all literally just recording to come out to the event explaining it. Which is fine but I know we can make it better but that is for another day!)
I am given the theme by our pastor and what to put on there so they specifically wanted ‘Higher Ground Prayer Summit 2024’.
Your questions make me think and I like that, I appreciate that. The example you gave even fits, it could be a business-type meeting but in this case it isn’t and there aren’t presentations.
The question you asked “What exactly is a prayer summit, why should I care, and why should I want to attend?” Maybe I am wrong, but I would think, these types of questions are answered by a Call To Action designs or prompts on flyers. Which is where I have no clue how to answer that on a flyer, let alone if someone were to ask me my answer would be to get spiritually fed is why you’d want to show up to an event like this.
This prayer summit (as all of them are for us), its a 3 day gathering, in the evening, where our pastor speaks about what God puts on his heart. It has worship in the beginning then an hour and a half (or 2 hr) message. It is getting together corporately for fellowship/worship/listening to the sermon. We don’t know what he is gonna talk about until that night really. We’ll know it has something to do or that he’ll have the reason for the theme but its not like we know specific topics, such as, Thursday night we’ll be talking about Moses and the Red Sea, Friday we’ll be talking about the burning bush and Saturday we’ll be talking about Jacob fighting an Angel.
Reading your example about Gather Together, made me think, so I went back and added this and also included this in the drafts as a choice (since I didn’t get a response yet figured I’d include it).
Please ignore the black line near come up, thats from the black silhouette.
I know this isn’t the best but I figured i’d add it. My concern is adding to much as well (i hope they don’t come back and say add food and fellowship after every service, and or child care available) because all of that takes up real estate too making it feel cluttered at times and also big enough to be legible but small enough to not take up a ton of space.
Don’t be sorry, the feedback is appreciated, the only way I will get better is by doing this and putting myself out there and making flyers for these events. I though about coming up with random flyers but i feel like its harder to do that but maybe I should just make stuff up just to try and get better then maybe I can eventually use a design for an actual flyer, the hard part of that w/me is, if its not needed for an actual event why am put so much time into it when I could be working on something else that needs to get done. I am not knocking it but that is where i struggle w/that because i know the more you do something the better you’ll get at it.
I went on linked in a while back and marked a handful of videos on graphic design that I have been wanting to watch and I plan on reviewing those and taking notes and then looking at the notes next time i work on a flyer for an event. In reality maybe I need to just make stuff up and practice it.
Good idea on working on the messaging, I think it would help if I sat and asked the questions that you did and tried to think on the messaging as well.
Your feedback is appreciated and it is helpful. Thank you.