Flash for the Jamaican Gov, anyone?

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So I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica and work in conjunction with the Ministry of Health. We kinda have a problem in our hospitals with people not knowing how to correctly to a toilet. People tear the bathrooms apart for some reason. Anyway, we would like to do a flash cartoon explaining how to properly use a flush toilet: Don’t take the backs off, don’t throw trash down in the toilet, water conservation and, you know, aim. I’ve tried to brush off my Flash and Toon Boom skills from a while back, but I’m not really getting too far with it, along with my lack of time to really work on it.

I was wondering, would anyone be interested in putting together a short flash flick about proper toilet use that will play on large screens in the waiting room of between a 25% to 100% of the island’s hospital waiting rooms and possibly a good bit of the health centers? I don’t have any money, and I’m pretty sure the Jamaican gov has less than I do, so I’m not really sure about payment, but you can tag the video with all your credits and what have you. Or maybe we can work something else out. Anyway, if you are interested, throw me an email pkjr04 at yahoo dot com.

Paul
Mandeveille, Jamaica
(www.srha.gov.jm if you want to see the hospitals)

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That’s certainly a different request and I’m pretty sure it’s easy enough to animate in a tasteful fashion. Or perhaps find a willing volunteer who can model the appropriate (and inappropriate) behaviours while you record a video. Edit that and place it into a Flash wrapper and you’re sorted. Don’t forget to include other basic stuff like washing hands afterwards.

But wouldn’t you get a more satisfactory response if you had stickers in the toilets themselves…and maybe an instructional poster on the back of the doors? I imagine that people would be more likely to see them there.

Check the Clean Public Toilets links here for inspiration:
http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/category_sub.asp?cid=39

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pkjr04, you’ll probably have better luck if you post in the Jobs forum.

Cheers,

Ryan.

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^also try to get a celebrity like Beanie Man, Elephant Man, or even Oliver Samuels to do some promotional videos

no offense but I don’t think flash alone will work, it seems that the problem isn’t just due to misuse(at least from your explanation) but maybe a distrust of public services and plain idle hands by teenagers