D DAY!

So today was the big day and what a big day it was! I got in slightly earlier to meet the technicians who had the key for the projector cupboard. We then hooked it up to Chris's laptop and ensured my blog on the internet was running ok and loaded Jack fm and the blitz street on.

I then helped out Rich blow up the balloons for the ice breaker and tidied the room ready for the presentations. The students arrived just after 9 and megan gave her intro. They then did their ice breaker and popped the balloons to split them into groups. There were a lot less students than first anticipated only around 11 showed up so there only 5 - 6 per group.

Our room went really well and without any major hiccups; I was really pleased with Jessie, Dean and Monish's presentations. Unfortunately in the other room there were a few hiccups with the set up so they were running a little behind and our group had an extra couple of minutes break. The second presentation for group B went even better I think because we'd almost had a little warm up. We were asked to try and extend our room a little to give extra time for group A in the green screen room, but half way through Megan came down and said they were running out of things to go through with them so we finished normal time and let them go to lunch. (They were thrilled with the free food!)

After lunch was more relaxing as we got to watch the guest speaker Ciaran O'Connor who was brilliant and a real inspiration to the students. After we showed a small montage to music of pictures we'd taken through the day edited by Sean and Matt which they found amusing! And lastly they had to fill out an evaluation.

All in all they seemed to really enjoy the green screen demo and I think this was because it was so hands on and something for them to actually do, where as our presentations weren't very interactive so if I was to plan the event again I think I would scrap the presentations and plan more for the claymation activity as I think they would of really enjoyed it. The day also taught me a lot about improvisation and using you initiative when things don't quite run smoothly.

Media Event - Meeting Two

Meeting two and our initial plan was to have one room green screen and one room claymation and split our students into 2 groups and swap them over after each activity. Unfortunately we don't think we have enough time to achieve this what with easter breaks,other projects and peoples absences so we are now going to do a green screen demo in Dairy G10 and 3 presentations on students work experience and documentaries in the main house. Megan is going to be away for 2 weeks so Chris is taking over as main organiser in her absence.

I had already booked the green screen equipment for my room but I was then needed to do a presentation at main house so I'm no longer runner of that room and James,Ciaran and Dan will now be looking after things. I will now be looking after Main House 111.

In the mean time I have to plan my presentation for the main room and what I'm going to talk about, I was thinking of running through my blog I created on a projector as it has some visuals and a short interview and just running through my general experience at Deal - chucking a few sneaky comments about Noel in here and there!

We went to recce main house and to ensure we had all we needed for the day, then wrote down a plan of who would talk and for how long. Jessie was doing a presentation on her re edit of the blitz, I was doing my work experience at Deal and Monish and Dean would do their behind the scenes at Jack fm. We'd have a 10 - 15 minute slot each and have a bit of time either side just incase.

We finally came up with a days schedule which I wrote up for Megan and sent to Lesley and Chris, we had to loose half an hour somewhere so cut their lunch a little shorter and their breaks would be walking from main house and vice versa.

Only 1 day til the big event!

Media Event - Meeting One

As part of our module we have to plan and hold a media event for BTEC students at Bath College on the 30th April on campus. We will need to assign people roles in the event and do so by having our first group meeting in which I was held head of to ensure everyone gets their say on what they would like to do. Roles included chief organiser of the event, 2 deputies, meeter and greeters, finance, head of rooms, tech, photography, editors and refreshments.

The meeting was successful and everyone had now been assigned roles and I have a role I really wanted as deputy and runner of green screen room. Megan is head organiser for the event and her first task is finding out what how many students we have and to begin thinking about the plan for the day.

Finance wise we have an estimated £200 to play with that will need to pay for catering and a guest speaker if we can get one. Jessie is in charge of this task and already has a few ideas up her sleeve!

My main role now is to recce the room I will be looking after Dairy G10, think of some ideas for tasks and activities and help Megan with any support she needs.