For my professional experience module I chose to use my work in the society I am part of – Coventry East Asian Film Society. (www.cueafs.com)
From the start of the year I have been taking part in organizing, reflecting and promoting all kinds of events (apart from promoting our weekly screenings and doing the powerpoint presentations for them) the first big one being the Halloween screening and party afterwards.
Halloween CUEAFS screening and party
East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival
Udine Far East Film Festival (ongoing, ends 7 may)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1918257603825.111785.1463562777
Since I am interested in PR and Advertising, I was concentrated around that aspect for the 3 events.
For the Halloween party I was making and setting up the posters, tickets and drinks menu for the event. Everyone in the society had a different job, so we had to manage to build up our teamwork. It went smoothly in my opinion, we managed to sell out all the tickets, we got ETG34 full with students for the movie and “Inspire” (the club for the afterparty) was full as well with people dressed up for the event.
Since it was a closed, organized party by students, for students, I didn’t really get to meet anyone to broaden up my contacts list. But I am really happy to have taken part of it. Now I have a clearer idea of how such an event should go and how to grab the attention of people.
I must admit, it was very hectic in the last days, especially on the day of the event. On the positive side of things, I learned how to react quickly and how to be more time sufficient.
East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival
This experience was way more important, fun, challenging and rewarding. Our very own CUEAFS film festival combined with a symposium. My job was varied, I did design work for the programme, power points and I took care of the guests at the symposium. This was a great opportunity for me as I enhanced my networking contacts, meeting people like John Berra for instance.
As the symposium had a lot of guests, I was in charge in getting them to the right rooms and taking care of them at all times. There were a few mess ups with transport, which was not our fault, but we managed to fix them as quickly as possible. Overall, the guests were happy and the cinema was full, which I think is what counts and what made the event successful.
At the moment I am still at Udine Far East Film Festival 13. This is my 3rd day on the spot. My job so far has been promoting the work of the society on facebook and twitter and taking photos. Live updates of what’s going on. It’s very time-consuming, but quite rewarding. I get to meet with film directors, actors, film critics and people from different media. It’s quite close to what I want to do in the future, so I am happily doing it. We have a couple of teams – a production team, writers team and photographers. I have to combine all their work into one place, which for now is going smoothly.
This is our twitter page, which I am in charge of – www.twitter.com/CUEAFS and our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1921831573172&set=a.1918257603825.111785.1463562777&type=1&ref=notif¬if_t=photo_tag&theater#!/group.php?gid=83791809981
and our website, which I don’t host, but shows our progress as a society – www.cueafs.com
