Wow what an eventful evening…

a mad rush at the begining get all our work ready on mount boards whilst the others set up… i remembered the shopping :) which seemed to go down well… the popcorn fitted well with the theme which was amazing

and what fab entertainment we had… a huge thank you to paul for organising him as he didnt have to do it for us as he was already doing another gig in ormskirk so that was great and for free

we had 20 pound left in our budjet after the shopping had been deducted so we will have to decide what to, i think we are organising a night out for all of us to attend to say goodbye which then the money can go towards some drinks.

the best thing that came out of the night was phil jackson saying he loved my business card and saying if there was a prize it would go to me… amazing!

Now to be serious and find a job :(

Thursday 19th April

i was unable to attend this meeting due to work commitments but i was fully informed off what happened during the meeting, of which the group decided to make a plan of were our exhibit would be and made sure everyone knew their jobs..

and all i needed to remember was the shopping…. i think people would kill me if i was to forgot the popcorn :)

Thursday 22^nd March – Hub 2 - 1pm

More people attended this meeting but there was still people missing that didn’t show up the first time either. To be honest we didn’t expect anything less as they are hardly ever in anyways. Everyone that turned up paid their 3 pound towards the shopping fund for the drinks/popcorn and packaging.

I had researched the different packaging available and the prices so that i was able to discuss at this meeting before i had bought anything to make sure everyone agreed. We agreed to buy red and white regular popcorn bags from my local cash and carry as these were cheaper than the popcorn boxes that i had found on the internet, even though they looked better. We had to think about our budget.

Shaun showed us the designs for the invites and the posters but just had to put some finishing touches to them . Joanne and Mike offered to put up the posters around the campus once they had been completed to make sure that we got people to come to the event.

I feel that Beth had more of managerial role within this project which didn’t bother me as she wasn’t controlling, she let everyone chose their jobs but at the same time made sure that they had done what they said they would do. I also thought she let everyone have their say and was open to changes. We didn’t assign anyone to become the head of the project, I think it happened as she was updating the facebook page constantly to ensure we all was in the loop with what was happening. The facebook page was a blessing as if there was any problems or people had discovered stuff that would benefit us, it informed us all so we was all in the loop.

Paul mentioned that his friend who performed would do a 15 minute set and sing swing music to fit in with the old cinema theme and that he would do it for free so we thought that this would be a good idea to keep people entertained whilst they are enjoying the refreshments.

So all i had to remember for the show was to bring the shopping and keep hold of the money! making sure we was well within in budget and to split any money we had left fairly.

Thursday 15^th March – Hub 2 – 1pm

First meeting was with to start off listening to Andy tibbs about what we had to do and what was required of us and that this was team effect and to make sure that we made a blog of what we did and how we got on, whether some people lacked and didnt bother contributing. This was my biggest worry as I know that certain members of our class don’t normally attend all their classes so i couldn’t see them coming in for a half hour meeting but then turn up for the main show so that they would get a mark which i didnt want to happen as they would get a mark for doing nothing.

When Andy left, he said it was up to us now what happens and who does what? So we decided to come up with a theme first as group, even though there was approx about ten of us at this meeting but we knew that we needed to get the ball rolling as we were breaking up for easter in two weeks and would only have one week when we came back so Beth suggested about an old school cinema theme like the cinema was showcase of our work, old film playing in the background, red carpet, Black and white formal theme. We began to talk about different jobs that we needed to sort out so that we could get the ball rolling by discussing a date for the event but originally this was going to be 26th which Andy had suggested but Becky said that no one would come as it was the day after of the night of the sports awards evening so decided on the 24^th April as we don’t have a lesson on Tuesday which gave us chance to prepare. We also talked about a time and decided to do it from 6-6.30pm as we wanted people from the industry to come so we thought that if we did it straight from work, some people might come because if they had gone home before they might not bother coming etc. we talked about having old cinema themed posters and invites which Shaun offered to do the art work for and we also thought about putting Rick Campbell to help with this work making sure everyone had a job. Beth said she would take notes of everything we discussed and what jobs each of us were doing so that everything ran smoothly and so we could see where people was needed. She also said she would update our edge hill advertising page so that the people who didn’t attend were up to speed. From here we discussed where we was going to hold the event? We agreed that the hub upstairs was a good idea as it was well lit, big television screen and seating area and also enough space to show case our work, Michaela offered to speak to the SU and the people in charge of the hub to make sure the date that we chose was available and make sure we were able to do what we had planned. We needed to confirm this before Shaun could complete the invites and posters.

We began to talk about entertainment and food etc and i said that my boss owns a sandwich bar and i’m sure he would be happy to supply us with some sandwiches for the evening but we realised this was really the type of food you would get at the cinema so we came up with giving free popcorn away like you would get, when you see the guy or girl during the film going around with trays of popcorn for people to eat saving them getting up out of their seat. So i said that i would be in charge of picking up the popcorn and the boxes to put them in. We talked about drinks also and decided that we would have fizzy drinks and also some juices for people who aren’t fizzy drinks people so I decided that I would pick these up so my job was the shopping.