My Evaluation
My peers and I were given the project of producing a Staff Awards Ceremony which is an annual event celebrating the successes and achievements of the staff at City Of Westminster College. The Vice Principal, Dr. Pat Squires was the chair of the event.
This project included planning a pre-title
and a title sequence, emailing staff to be interviewed, filming staff about the
people who were receiving awards and having the event filmed live.
The awards ceremony was split into 3
sections which were for; Long Service, Retirees and Excellence Awards.
During this project, my first job role was
to email a few staff, informing them about the Staff Awards event and asking if
they could talk about certain individuals who were receiving awards. I also
made sure to ask the staff if they were available to be interviewed on Wednesday,
Thursday or Friday.
As a class, we were able to choose which
group we wanted to be in, whether it be in the group that were in charge of the
pre-title and title sequence, interviewing the staff members, filming or
editing the interviews. My peer and I were in charge of interviewing staff,
another one of my peers took over the role of sending out emails to staff
instead.
We were given the categories of the awards
that the staff will be receiving. In the Excellence Awards sections, the 6 categories were; Excellence in: Teaching And
Learning, Support For Students, Promoting Student Diversity, External Customer Services, Internal
Customer Services and Leadership And Management. This made it easier for us to
think of the type of questions to ask the staff. My peer and I then discussed
what questions were going to ask and which one of us was going to do the
interview.
We then went to find a place where the
interview could be filmed. Finding a place for the interview was difficult
sometimes as the rooms were either booked by other people already, so we had to
make sure that we found a room before the interview took place.
When the staff arrived to be interviewed, I
talked them through the questions that I was going to ask them. I was nervous
to interview the staff as I couldn't find the confidence to ask them questions
and to look directly into their eyes. However, when the staff told me that they
were nervous themselves, it helped me and I gradually felt comfortable during
the interview.
As the Staff Awards event was approaching,
there were a lot of deadlines to meet. On some days, there were 3 or more
interviews in one day. I started to panic a little bit as there was a lot of
pressure to get these interviews done at the right times. Me and one of my
peers made sure that we were taking turns with the interviews so that we didn't
feel completely under pressure to get the interviews done. There were a few
interviews that I was not aware of, so another one of my peers stepped in
to help out.
On the day of the Staff Awards, some footage
appeared to be missing and this became a concern to everyone, as we didn't have
much time. Therefore, we quickly emailed one of the staff asking if they were
available to be interviewed again. Luckily, they were available in the short
space of time and we were able to put the footage back on the software.
My second role was being The Lighting
Assistant. I really enjoyed doing this role as it was quite simple and easy to
do. I had to make sure that the lights weren't too bright when the person
talking about the awards was on stage. I also had to make sure that the lights
were off during the video clips and the lights were bright once the staff
collected their awards.
Overall, I really enjoyed being apart of the
Staff Awards as it was fun and I liked the build up to the event. If I done
this again, I would make sure that we were all a bit more prepared so that we wouldn't
have to do any last minute interviews and so that we won’t have to worry about
anything going wrong on the day of the event.
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