'YOUR MEDIA, YOUR FUTURE' Event Evaluation

I feel this module has had its ups and downs but has been a beneficial learning experience for all of us. There has been times where I have found the module to be enjoyable and times when I have completely disliked it! However I feel we have all done well and have achieved what we set out to achieve.

As a group I believe we all worked extremely well together – everyone got involved and contributed a fair amount towards the project, which was great because in the past I have worked within groups where some group members haven’t always pulled their weight and have relied upon others to complete everything; but this definitely wasn’t the case on this group project! I feel we had good communication between us all, all regularly staying in contact and up to date with the event progress via group meetings, e-mails and telephone. In my opinion I felt everybody seemed comfortable in putting their opinions and views across to the rest of the group and the group were always willing to listen and always open to a variety of suggestions.

During the project we did face a few problems such as arrangement of actors, organisation of designing and printing posters, work experience commitments, booking college equipment/ space. But as a group I felt we handled all of these situations well and resolved them in the best possible ways. I don’t feel there were any major disasters during the whole thing!

On the actual day of the event the majority of things ran smoothly but like most things you do encounter a few minor obstacles and for us it seemed to be a few technical hitches with the computers. One being one of the event videos wouldn’t play straight away on the i-macs, to resolve the problem the video format needed to be changed and retransferred. Another technical problem was one of the show reels wouldn’t play from disc, which meant one of the guest speakers had to alter their talk arrangement around the technical problem – this didn’t cause too much of an issue though because they just worked backwards by explaining their background, jobs and experience first and showing their show reel at the end of their talk allowing time for the show reel file to copy onto the actual computer rather than play from the disc.

From the feedback we have received and collected I believe we have achieved our aims and have managed to host a successful media event! Some of the feedback does show some mixed responses and there is some things we could have changed or done a little better – like having the show reels and videos already uploaded onto each computer and possibly having a separate feedback sheet to the quiz just because the ‘quzzinaire’ needed to be handed in before the end of the event to be able to announce the winners and I don’t feel it provided enough time for the audience to give all of their feedback as they hadn’t heard all of the guest speakers. Another thing I would possibly change about the event is maybe having another question and answer time after all the guest speakers had finished their talks, just because some people may have a question that relates to more than one guest speaker or they had thought of a question during the rest of the event and would like an opportunity to put it to the relevant guest speaker. But all of these things are learning curves for us all and things we will consider if we get the opportunity to plan and host another event in the future.

This module has provided me with a wider understanding of how much time, effort, planning, organisation and team work goes into organising different events and how they are beneficial to the subject areas. But also being involved in the event and having the opportunity to listen to the guest speakers has made me think about where I really want to focus my career towards and what I want to achieve after this course and in the future because there is a variety of career opportunities available it’s just finding a way into the industry and from what I have learnt it’s all about networking!!!