The Event

For part of our course we are all required to work as a team to organise and deliver a media event on the 5th May 2009. The aims of the event are to inform people about different areas of the media industry, types of jobs involved within the media, encourage students to progress into higher education and to promote the FDA Broadcast: Process and Production course.

Due to work experience commitments I was unable to attend the first meeting, which was slightly disappointing because I missed the introduction to the event project and the only information I had about it was the information printed in the module handbook. I personally would have liked to have been there to get a good understanding of where the event was heading and the involvement we all had with the project. However I was able to keep up to date with everything through the minutes taken. It was decided that at each meeting someone would type up the minutes and e-mail them to everyone present and absent as well as print off a hard-copy for everyone.

My first task was to find some short films that we could show on the i-macs for the audience to view whilst waiting for the event to begin.
This was actually a little more difficult than I imagined because although there were certain websites I could access to download the films. I had to watch the films through to decide whether they would be relevant to the event. This did take some time and once I had found relevant films I did come across a few hitches with downloading them. I managed to download some films from the website www.careersbox.co.uk which were useful but unfortunately they were all in the wrong format so I had to convert each one into an avi or mp4 file in order for them to play (which seemed to take forever.)
The other website that was recommended I use was www.icould.com I managed to find some really good short films about careers within the media industry however I was unable to download them due to some technical thing which I found very annoying!!!! But to save wasting time, I decided that the films I had already downloaded were relevant and gave some detailed information about jobs within the media, which is what we required. The films were also the right time length in order to be looped and viewed quickly.

The Films Selected To Be Used At The Event.

















Icould Video Links

http://www.icould.com/index.php?
option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=Stephen_Hewitt