Overall I am extremely happy with how the seminar ran! I think we got some great information out of our guests and the audience was happy with the information they got about the documentary industry.

 

I think the whole concept of Fear and Loathing worked really well and made a great aesthetic and vibe to the seminar. I was a tiny bit disappointed with the turn out, as there were not very many people there, it seems as though once a group has run their seminar they do not both coming to the seminars anymore. This is a shame for them as they missed out on an extremely interesting seminar.

 

One thing that we should have figured out more was the questions from the audience. While the first few were great, the last couple that came in caused my timing of the questions to be slightly messed up causing me to run slightly overtime and not being able to ask a few of the questions I really wanted to. For example the question Shelly asked right at the end, meant that I did not have time to ask my final question, which was, exactly the same as the question she asked. I think this made us look like we had not included questions about the industry and caused us to look quite unorganized, whereas the timing and questions were actually planned extremely well.

 

I think that our group ended up working really well together and I am extremely happy to have been group leader for the seminar. While at times it was hard to bring everyone together, I think I did a good job of keeping everyone on track and bringing together the seminar. I think the plan and questions I made worked well and the communication I had between the steering committee and the group was clear and well done. All in all I think I was a vital group member and did more than my fair share of work.

 

In the end I feel as though I played a vital role in making sure the group made stayed on track and got everything done, as it needed to be.

 

I am really happy that the seminar went well and now just have to make sure that everyone does their part in getting the paperwork for the steering committee done by next week.

As it is only one week away from our seminar I am pretty sure that our group is on top of everything! While we are a hard working group it is sometimes a bit hard to get us all working cohesively. For example we have a great poster, a great promo, a great plan for the seminar set up and food, and great questions and a good plan on how everything will run, it is just hard to get everyone to focus to make sure that everything will come together. I guess that comes with working in such a big group though. In the meeting today after the seminar I asked everyone to focus for 10 mins to go around and make sure that everything is on track. It seems as though it is!! Now we have three confirmed guests I have tailored some questions to suit the guests specifically and also make sure that the way the seminar will run well.

 

After the seminar this week, I was really impressed with how it was run; the one thing I took was that there was not much flow between the questions. This is why I have made sure I have follow up questions to the big questions, in order to make the seminar flow. I am a bit nervous about how the seminar will go, but I think that our group has done good work and will be able to pull off the seminar well!!

I had to get everyone send our progress into the steering committee today, which was hard as our group has had some trouble staying on track and actually meeting the deadlines we have made. I had to put a bit of a hard word on everyone to get all that needed to be done, done, I also had to do quite a bit of it myself. I did the seminar plan, promotional strategy, reminded Tom to tell the guests about the release forms, as well as finalising the guests bios. I collected everything on the list below and sent it all into the steering committee.