Meeting Notes

First Meeting - 20/5/08:

• Quite successful, but brief. Just discussed our individual poster designs
• Decided what type of second advert we were producing (radio advert)

Pitch Meeting - 3/6/08:

• A successful and productive discussion
• Divided up our roles for the pitch and began researching our paperwork

Budget Meeting - 10/6/08:

• Discussed and organised the equipment and costs for our budget
• Successful meeting as budget was completed

Final Pitch Meeting - 11/6/08:

• Last minute group talk about our recored video pitch
• Completed and highlighted all our spoken paragraphs

Advert Script Meeting - 17/6/08:

• Unsuccessful meeting today because we could not think of a good idea for the advert
• We are running out of time
• Need to be more productive in the next meeting and will recap.

Advert Script Meeting 2 - 18/6/08:
A good effort today. We came back with fresh ideas and were able to write a god script which we were all satisfied with.

Overall, the group has had some solid ideas which we need to work on to push us to the deadline.

Evaluation

I only had one legal constraint in dealing with the making of our radio advert. Because our advert featured music from a film, we had to get permission first before we could use it.

Towards the lead up to the event, I was working with the graphics team in creating graphics for the nominations videos. Making sure it will fit with all the age groups and that everyone will like it.

With financial issues surrounding the advert, there were a few problems. We couldn’t find a suitable size room to do the advert in, so we ended up using a small room with little equipment, but overall the advert came out well. Also we found an actor to do the voice in our advert but the partnership didn’t work out, so we ended up doing it ourselves.

I think I leaded the group well; I was always there if anyone needed me and would always help if anyone needed me to do something. With the pitch, we gave ourselves roles, one of us did the presentation, another one found out research concerning the advert, what goes into it, what equipment will we need and I focused on the audience, being who is our target audience. As a whole it was successful, we did well on our own parts and ended up working ok. However the negative aspect of it was it took a lot of time, we were quite slow in parts but we got the job done.

We held meetings once every two weeks, talking about how everything going and where we are. Also in discussion was the script update and what changes we might need to make. It worked well, if anyone needed something to say they have the time and opportunity to say it.

The time scale set for our advert was we had more or less a week to do each task, and if need to edit it, you will have to do it on top of the other work and try to catch up. The time scale we had towards the evening was to get the graphics done and to have a quick run through of what it looks like. I met both deadlines. If I were to do the advert and evening again what I would do differently is for the advert I would use my time more and get the work done sooner. And for the awards evening I would rather be in the audience then on the sidelines however I felt more part of the team filming the event then just watching it.

We didn’t get feedback for our advert but to get it I would get a few people to listen to our advert and ask them what they think of it. From what I’ve heard everyone enjoyed the awards evening. I contributed as best as I could towards the advert and awards but I suppose I could have done more if I had spoke up more. I don’t think it would be acceptable in a professional work place as I wasted time a lot and felt like I could have done more then what I did.