Week 22 Tutorial Logbook - 31/3

Week 22 – The Big Agency – 31^st March 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure that everyone knew to get to the tutorial early as it was set under exam conditions. I arrived early to the tutorial to allow time for me to settle in the class before watching the videos. The video we created had been posted on Moodle at 4pm yesterday.

We were the second video that was watched, I feel that our video was appropriate, interesting and made creatively. I am proud of my group for creating a great piece of work and I think that the work mirrors how well we work together despite the setbacks we’ve had this term. Watching the videos that the other groups in the class created gave me ideas for future evaluative videos that I might have to create, I also feel that the videos were of a high standard and could be learned from.

The Big Agency unit has been a fun, interesting and valuable unit which I would recommend. I feel that it has allowed me to develop my employability skills through working and producing work for an actual business, I now know how to act when things don’t turn out well and how to think on my feet to improve the situation.

Week 21 Tutorial Logbook - 24/3

Week 21 – The Big Agency – 24^th March 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure to communicate with my group as to make sure that everyone was on track. Today’s session revolved around assignment help and is the last assignment support session.

During the week, we met up and collated what needed to be in the video, we made sure that we’d covered every point and checked the mark scheme to make sure that the video fit the criteria. In the run up to filming the video, we all had separate jobs that needed to be done and in my opinion they were all done exceptionally well and I commend my group on their work.

The video took around 1 hour to film, but unfortunately we couldn’t figure out how to break up the voice-over so that had to be done all in one shot which was a difficult task. Another issue we ran into was the length of the video, by the time we’d finished recording the first shot it had gotten to 6 minutes so it had to be redone. These obstacles didn’t deter us as we knew we could get around them and create a great video.

I look forward to watching the rest of the videos in next week’s tutorial.

Week 20 Tutorial Logbook - 17/3

Week 20 –The Big Agency – 17^th March 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure to communicate with my group as to make sure that everyone was on track and knew what needed to be bought into class for the group work section. Today’s session revolved around assignment help.

In today’s session, we signed up to VideoScribe and worked out how the software worked, this was important as we found VideoScribe to be a slightly confusing piece of technology. After spending around half an hour on VideoScribe we had a chance to talk to Dr Bex and run the video idea past her. We also had the chance to show her a blog that had been written for The Candidate, she liked the blog and said it was appropriate to send to the client. Having the chance to talk to Dr Bex was helpful as in the past the blogs haven’t been as appropriate as the client hoped and by checking with Dr Bex we know they will be appreciated.  

Overall, this session was very helpful and I feel that it was a very productive session as we got the chance to talk to Dr Bex along with starting the video.

Week 19 Tutorial Logbook - 10/3

Week 19 – The Big Agency – 10^th March 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure to communicate with my group as to make sure that everyone was on track and knew what needed to be bought into class for the group work section. Today’s session revolved around assignment help.

This session was a very valuable session as it allowed the group to run any queries past Dr Bex. Whilst waiting to speak to Dr Bex both Debbie and I went through what had been done so far in preparation for the video, we found that preparation was on track and that everyone’s work was up to standards.

We also contacted the other members of the group to enquire about how far the blogs for The Candidate were coming along, the set of blogs are almost complete and a deadline has been set to hand them over. 

Week 18 Tutorial Logbook - 3/3

Week 18 – The Big Agency – 3^rd March 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure to communicate with my group as to make sure that everyone was on track and knew what needed to be bought into class for the group work section. In today’s session, we spoke about Assignment 2 and what it involved.

Assignment two is comprised of four parts: the group creative output which is a short video, the final reflective review, the individual blog and a peer assessment form. The short video will be a rough overview of the project and must contain theory of sorts. The reflective review is a document that reflects upon the group project and my work experiences throughout the year. This also must include reflective theory such as Kolb’s learning cycle (1984), Gibbs reflective cycle (1988) and Schön’s reflection in action/reflection on action (1991) model.

During the tutorial, the group discussed how we would complete the video and what the video would contain. We created a checklist of possible ideas and brainstormed what had been done throughout the term already. As the session ended we concluded that the video would be done on Video Scribe, uploaded on YouTube and everyone would have different roles in compiling everything that needed to go into the video.

Week 17 Tutorial Logbook - 17/2

Week 17 – The Big Agency – 17^th February 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure to communicate with my group as to make sure that everyone was on track and knew what needed to be bought into class for the group work section. In today’s session, we focused on creative thinking.

The session today was extremely helpful as it taught me that I can be creative and that I shouldn’t let past experiences get me down because everyone and anyone can be creative. A quote that resonates with me is one from Maya Angelou – “you can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have”.

During the group work section of the tutorial we had time to organise the work already completed by members of the group. We also made a checklist to ensure that everything got done by a specific date. This information was shared in the group chat on Facebook as Elena couldn’t make it to the tutorial, Facebook has been a key tool this term with everyone being away at placement interviews. It’s allowed us to keep in touch and up to date.

Week 16 Tutorial Logbook - 10/2

Week 16 – The Big Agency – 10^th February 2017

In preparation for the tutorial I made sure to communicate with my group as to make sure that everyone was on track and knew what needed to be bought into class for the group work section. In today’s session, we focused on digital marketing in 2017.

Firstly, we went through statistics and found that out of the population of 7.395 billion, 3.419 billion are internet users, 2.307 billion are active social media users and finally 1.968 billion people are active mobile social users (wearesocial, no date).  Knowing this reinstates the fact that using social media to reach customers is beneficial as so many people around the world are online.

During the week, we received an email back from The Candidate, through this communication we arranged a meeting to discuss the re-brief and to get feedback on the work already submitted. The group are looking forward to this meeting as it will allow us to move forward on the project, and in preparation for the meeting I looked through The Candidate’s website to make sure I was up to date on their business and current blogs.