The Day of The Event

When I first arrived I got straight to work helping Adam display the job role posters along the corridor leading to the performance space. Once this job was completed I moved onto my assigned role of ‘monitoring the i-macs.’ Before I could do anything I needed to locate Rob (the music technician) to get him to move three i-macs into the reception area, my second task was to find Wendy (the media technician) to borrow a fourth i-mac, which also needed to be set up in the reception area. Once all the i-macs were set up I transferred a different short film to each one and set it to play on a loop for the audience / guests to view. I did encounter one minor problem with one of the films, for some reason the ‘Location Sound Recordist video’ wouldn’t play in QuickTime. To save wasting time I knew the file was playing fine on my laptop, as I had previewed it the night before to ensure all the videos were o.k. So I just dragged the file onto a memory stick and attempted to transfer the new file to the i-mac again, thankfully this time I had a little more success and the film began to play. Phew!!

For the first part of the event the audience / guests were taking part in the ‘quizzinaire’ this required them to browse around the reception area and corridor searching for the ‘quizzinare’ answers. During this time I remained in the reception area ensuring all the i-macs were in working order and answering any questions any of the guests had.







Once everyone was seated in the performance space, I got the opportunity to join in a listen to the guest speakers, Cormac and Valerie which was fantastic because they all gave very informative talks containing some good advice for people wanting to work within the media industry.





After the first two talks I moved onto my next task of the day, which was to supervise the refreshments and collecting the raffle tickets, which had been given during the signing in process. The aim of the raffle ticket was to ensure people only took one cookie so that there was plenty to go around. At first this task was quite boring just standing there but then I got chatting to some of the audience members and guest speakers which was great because I was able to find out verbal feedback about the event so far and some more information about the media industry.






After the refreshments I got to listen to the remaining two guest speakers Jason and Laura. Looking back I’m glad we decided to collect up questions from the students before hand to put to the guest speakers because although a few people did put their hands up and ask many remained quiet so it was great to have something to fall back on and the questions collected previously were asked by Sam, so there was always a question for each of the guest speakers to answer.





Although all the guest speakers’ talks were great to listen too the ones I found most beneficial to myself were Cormac Macmahon and Laura Abrahams.

Cormac because I have a strong interest in journalism and his career / talk was based very much around this subject area. Although I have an interest in journalism I’m not entirely sure which area of journalism I would like to focus my career towards so his talk was very inspiring and beneficial to myself. After the event I did speak to Cormac about possible completing some work experience with him during the summer. He told me to send him an e-mail attaching my c.v. and available dates and he would see what he could do.

The reason I found Laura’s talk interesting was because I found she had a wider view on the industry and although she was very passionate about the media and her work she had a realistic view and explained it’s always very useful to have a back up plan and something to always fall back on as the media industry is a very hard world to break into. This advice has made me think about other possible options for the future!

Once the event was completed with success, all of us went for lunch with two of the guest speakers Valerie Burke-Ward and Laura Abrahams which was really nice because we got to find our more about them, their jobs, and the industry. It was great listening to some of their experience and stories they had encountered over the years.

I felt the event went extremely well and all our planning and hard work over the pervious weeks / months had paid off.