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insights from the sofa

12 July, 2008 at 2:25 pm 1 comment

Hello again.  So I’m sitting here at home recovering from a little op (sore but feeling much better than I did two weeks ago, thank you) and watching a disturbingly large amount of daytime TV.

Shear Genius on Sky Three is a kind of hair styling reality competition where hairdressers battle it out.  Today’s episode required the stylists to create a celebrity inspired new look for their clients.

One competitor was praised by the judges for telling her client that what she wanted to look like (Paris Hilton I think) was impossible and persuading her to settle for something more realistic and do-able (that redhead off Desperate Housewives).

Which got me thinking – why don’t we have an awards do for ‘finest management of client expectations, resulting in the best outcome possible given the circumstances’ ? 

You could have categories like ‘best low budget work that actually ran’, ‘best rain soaked shoot’ and ‘the client was a total nightmare, but we eventually managed to get him promoted and out of our way’.  :-)

PS If you weren’t at Interesting2008 and want to see my little turn, the video is here on The Guardian’s website

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