Lara McEvoy - 319311
Unit 13: Final Major Project
week 15: 13 - 17/5/24
This week was the week of the End of year show, and at the end of last week we had decided that on Monday we would undertake a run through, just without any sound. This is because exams were going on so there needed to be as little disruption as possible. Luckily this went really well, and we were able to confirm that both laptops worked and that we had a backup. After this was done, I went home and continued to work on my presentation strategies, this was a fairly easy task to complete and didn’t take much time.
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Unfortunately, on Tuesday, I was unable to come in because I was having a medical procedure done which required me to go under sedation. So, I was unable to go into college for that day and help out with the rehearsals, obviously.
Set up and the Show
(15/5/24)
Today is show day but there was still a lot to get done, especially the refreshments department. In the morning, I was focused on getting all of the posters laminated and cut ready for the set up later, my laminator did decide to stop working halfway through but after leaving it over lunch it was fine afterwards.
Once all laminating had been done, me, Flossy and Molly started on filling the sweet bags. We did the sweet bags now as these won’t go stale whereas there’s a high chance that the popcorn will go stale if we do it this afternoon, so its safer to keep it until later. With the sweets we decided to have 30-40 bags, so roughly 20 harribo and 20 fruitella, but that’s dependent on how many we have. Seeing as we didn’t mix the sweets together, due to the fruitella being vegan, it was safer to not do this.
We arrived back at college for 5:30pm to set up for the show. As I am the refreshments team, my focus was on getting the popcorn bags done so that they are ready for doors to open at 6:30, as well as working on the drinks. We were able to get this done pretty swiftly so I helped put up some posters as well, seeing as many other people were stressed about this. Once doors opened the refreshment stand was pretty popular and people were actually giving money, which we were all surprised about, in all honesty.
As I wasn’t presenting during the show and the photographer deicded to drop out at the last minute, I was assigned to be the photographer from the top of the auditorium. Now I’m not the best at photogrpahy, however I tried my best and I was able to get a photo of everyone who was presenting with their title card on the screen. I did this so that everyone had something to show to prove that they presented on the night, even if it isnt the best, its something for them. Below are some of the photos I took during the show.
Overall, I would say that the show was a huge success. We didn’t run into any technical problems on the night, everyone knew what they were saying, and no one fumbled. I feel really proud of what we put together as a class, despite all the arguments during the meetings, we really pulled it off and put on an engaging show. I feel everyone there had a good time, both the audience and the class themselves, and we actually had a good time.
With Thursday and Friday, I mainly focused on starting to plan out the evaluation + creating my PowerPoint for my presentation. The evaluation is one of the biggest pieces of writing for this project and one of the more essential elements, so through planning this out I will be able to ensure that my work covers all necessary areas. For the presentation I found this was a simple task to complete as I was able to look through my work on my website and find areas that I wanted to cover within this presentation.
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Next week I have my presentation on Wednesday and am spending the rest of the week working from home to complete the evaluation. I have made this decision to work from home as I know that I work a lot better there and I can focus easily, due to there being less distractions.