Media Event Research

For our class today, we had to make a presentation of research that we did of a specific media event. After some deliberation I decided to do mine on the Live G8 Concerts in 2005, which massive media publicity was generated for and was focused on doing it for a good cause. Here is the link attached:




I also gave everyone in the marketing team briefs to have done by next week, seen here:

Design team:

Claire, thanks for looking into the tshirts/hoodies - if you can bring some ideas and designs on Friday that would be ace.

Leonie - If possible, it'd be great if you can bring in initial sketches/design ideas for the logo that we can all look at and decide which one would work best. It'd be good to bring in a few so we can have some different options to look at and decide on. Also, might be a good idea to discuss colour scheme with Claire to make sure it would go well on the shirts.

Lee - Can you liaise with Leonie about ideas for the logo and see if it would be possible to use and tranfer logo onto the graphics for information packs, tshirts, goody bags, etc. If you'd like to start some initial design ideas for the information packs that'd be great too!

Contacting/organising:

Patrick - It'd be so good if on Friday we could have a rough version of a schedule of what needs to get done when - we can meet or chat on here about each deadline. Otherwise if you could write up one of those spreadsheets you mentioned last time that we could have ready to put in all the deadlines, we can all discuss and come up with it, hopefully have it set in stone and ready to move on by the end of the day.

Ed - Could you research how it would be best to contact a local MP (ideally Don Foster) and get them on board if possible, we won't do it yet but then we'll have an idea of the steps we need to take. Also if you can think of any accessible guest speakers we could have come in on the day it'd be brill!

Simon - Can you get quotes of prices from your contact in the printing company and bring some to compare for the tshirts, information packs, etc. Also, can you look into who we would need to talk to in the SU to see if we can get some free giveaway bath spa things for the goody bags/information packs? Don't know if there's a manager or someone in charge of it, but if we can find out who it is we can get on it straight away.

We also came up with a schedule for the day:

8-9: Rigging
9.15: Ice breaker for the students
9.30: First Activity
10.15: Second Activity
11.00: Third Activity
11.45: Walk/tour to Moreton
12.00: Lunch/technical de-rig
12.30: Finish lunch
12.45: Guest speakers (lunch for tech team)
13.45: Evaluation
13.50: Goodbyes, goody bags, take students to bus stop.

We talked about which guest speakers we are going to try to have for the event, as we need people who actually work in the media industry who have gone to university and can say how important it is in the media world to have a degree. We want to get someone who is accessible, interesting and who the students would get a lot out of.

One of the people I thought is someone I know named Chris Hill who is one of the script writers for the popular TV show Skins. Everyone would know what it is and would hopefully be interested and get a lot out of what he has to say. He's young, in his twenties and recently finished university so I think he would be perfect for the event. I'm going to contact him and ask him to come, hopefully we'll get him!