EVENT: Ved's Media Angels?

I’ve been put in charge of organising an event for some Media students from City of Bath College. Rob Miles is deputy organiser, Jacob Martin is in charge of publicity and Reuben Bakker-Dyos is in charge of Technical… stuff.

We’ve had two formal meetings in class to brainstorm on the event and have successfully come up with a plan for the 2-hour event:

The 30 students will be split up into two groups, one group will be given an hour demonstration on how to successfully make a green screen video while the other group will be given talks on our own experiences with working in the media.

In the second meeting we had a more in depth breakdown of the event. We made a decision on which of us would be in the two different rooms and what roles we would be playing:

The Green Screen Room (Newton G.08)
(The college students will be split up into smaller groups and be given short demos on different bits of equipment and get the chance to be filmed in front of a green screen background.)

The following is a list of people doing a demo on a specific piece of equipment:

Rob Miles - Floor Manager
Reuben Bakker-Dyos - Camera
Lance Turton - Vision Mixer
William Wynn - Lighting Engineer
Chris Johnson - Sound Engineer

The Work Experience Room (Gatehouse)
(The college students will be given an introductory talk on work experience, followed by a viewing of our work experience diaries followed by talks by three students on their videos)

3 presentations of 3 different roles
Mike - Shaddowing floor manager/gallery
Balve - Talking Issues
Jacob - Shaddowing literacy agent

I will be present in this room and it’s possible that my video diary will be shown.

The tone of the presentations is to be informal and conversational to keep the students engaged and we will provide them supplementary information like websites and pamphlets.

Our first schedule (which was drawn up by Jake) looks like this:
10:45 - 11:00 - Collection & Ice Breaker
11:00 - 11:55 - First Hour
11:55 - 12:05 - Break
12:05 - 13:00 - Second Hour & Evaluation
13:00 - 14:00 - University Tour

I have quite a lot on my plate now with this event – The risk assessment, arranging an equipment demo with the technicians and arranging for CRB ambassadors (which Balve is dealing with).

I was a bit indifferent when I was put in charge of organising the event but I’m looking forward to the challenge now. We have a lot to do this semester but I’m positive that if we work as a team we can make this a successful event for the visiting college students.

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