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CRC Open Day - June 27th 2014

Welcome to CRC's June Open Day

Balloon Car-nage!

Cambridge Regional College print-based media students have filled a car with balloons! Guess how many are in there, and win discounted driving lessons through the AA.

Banter’s breathless students have struggled, popped and battled across the car park to fill the car, and now its up to you, get guessing! 

Information Everywhere!

Prospective Print Based Media student Sammy: "Banter magazine is very hands on, giving you invaluable experience"

Here is our tutor Lina, giving a cheeky smile next to a few of the stands that have been put on display in the mall for the newcomers.

Jamie and I visited the LRC and found more help desks with advisors there to explain more about the college and help give the visitors more of an understanding about what the college has to offer.

Aimee Maria & Jamie Hilferty

Exploring Around the College

We took the opportunity to visit the media sectors around the college which included; Radio, Media Make-up, Art, Music and Print-Based Media.

Radio

Media Make-up

Art

Music

Print-Based Media

Jess Dobbs & Samira Iravani.

Visitors Flood In…

It's only 10:30, and already reception is full of parents and prospective new students. Aimee and I, a fellow Banter student, have been perusing the stalls and taking photographs of all the fresh faces. The student and staff helpers have been out in force talking to those who need any information and guidance. New posts will be coming throughout the morning.

Stay tuned! Jamie Hilferty & Aimee Maria

BANTER BUZZ

Welcome to the Cambridge Regional College open day. Come along and meet the BANTER magazine team in room F035. We are looking forward to meeting newcomers and are thrilled to show off the articles we have produced so far.

We love BANTER! Jess Dobbs & Samira Iravani.   

CRC Open Day - 1st March 2014

We will be posting live from Cambridge Regional College during the open day on 1st March. Please come down to F Block and join us; fame and fortune await!

Terror Trail - Halloween 2013

 

Organised by BTEC Level 3 Events Management Students

Captured by BTEC Level 3 Interactive Media Students

The Centimes - Local Pool - Official Video

Video produced for local band The Centimes by CRC's Film and Television Year 1 students, as part of their Working to a Client Brief module

Banter Photography Exhibition 2013

Events Student

Blog

Writter Hayley Janson

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Who I have met as an events student at Cambridge Regional College

 

“Hiya, my names…”

First day of college, first day nerves, first impressions and plenty of first introductions! Our first lessons at Cambridge Regional College were all about getting to know each other and setting us up to become a great events management team. It didn’t take long to pick up on how important our connections are working in the media industry...

 

“All the wedding bells n’ whistles!”

Organising weddings was a popular choice of future career for the girls in the team, so we were thrilled to meet a wedding planner in one of our lessons. She told us about everything needed in order to be successful and create her clients perfect day. Along with a well organised diary, a collection of strong connections was her golden tool! One of her selling points was that she knew the local florists; catering company’s and dress stores. She had the ability to get discounts on venues and save the pockets of the husband and wife to be. I remember her saying: “The hard part is making them believe that they need you.”

 

“Be professional, girls!”

With allot of the team having come straight from the secondary school class rooms, we weren’t the most calm n’ collected classmates to have. Serious was not our forte and the room would remain in a less-than-calm state. We were all keen to pitch in when brainstorming ideas for events to organise within college. This was great but made it hard for tutors to trust us with meeting any potential clients for future events and tasks. We didn’t blame them. Almost one year in and allot has changed! Our tutors have helped us learn to listen to each other, listen to all ideas objectively but most of all, remain professional.

 

“Yes but, where do we come in?!”

Having planned a few college events ourselves, worked with clients to create promotional videos and written various reports/articles, we are now set to go out there and gain experience in organising events out of college grounds. With our eagerness to get going, we were introduced to an artist named Jo. Having come from LA where she organised various art events, she wanted our help with one of her popular Cambridgeshire art shows. Jo was excited to have fresh new heads to work with and we were glad to be taken seriously for one of the first times. It is always nice to be needed!

We are now into June 2013, the summer holidays are just on the horizon and I will be looking forward getting involved with as many events as possible and getting my foot in the events industry door! So many thanks to our tutors and everyone who has put up with us throughout our first year of college…

Bring on year two!  

Cambridge regional college flash mob!

How about trying something you’ve never done before? Imagine that, a story on the front page of a newspaper and you can say you were there and you got involved! Well, that’s where the events management team comes in. Our plan is to organise a group of students from the performing arts course and get them to take part in a flash mob, and know where else but at Cambridge Regional College! These students will be the ones starting off the flash mob but we need students like you to come and join in.

As you may know flash mobs are groups of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, (in our case the college mall) perform an act for a brief time, and then quickly disperse. We have planned the flash mob to be a series of different well known songs that will last for around 30 seconds; most students at the college will know the dance moves and hopefully join in. We hope that overseer’s will get involved and join in with their friends!

A few songs that are going to be played are The Macarena, Gangnam Style, YMCA and We Speak No Americano. It will be taking place on Tuesday 25th June in the Mall, so come and get involved but remember it’s a secret! The flash mob is to get students involved in something different and have a great time! Pictures and videos will be taken and then sent off to the local newspaper, you never know you might see yourself or someone you know on the news!

Charity Gala

Since I was little my grandma has always inspired me. She founded a charity called Abacus Counsellors, now based on Madingley Road, Cambridge, who provide support for young people who have been or are suffering from sexual abuse. When I was 13, I volunteered at the office where she worked and helped however I possibly could. It was great. I even organised a fete in the car park of the building she worked in to raise money for them. Now, I am organising a gala dinner, for the same charity, only 5 years along the line.

It will be taking place at St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, when the new renovations are finished. There will be guest speakers from the charity and other local charities within the same field, acoustic entertainment and a buffet dinner all raising money for the charity to continue running. It will also be a great celebration of the work the charity has already done and of course what they are yet to achieve. Thank you for all the support.

If you have any questions about the event or wish to purchase tickets when available (they will be priced at £40 a pair) then please don’t hesitate to contact me using the details below.

Jasmine Watts

Events Management Student

+447414668616

Abacus’ Website: http://www.abusecounselling.co.uk/Home.html

Clothes show live

Clothes Show Live

Monday 10^th December 2012 NEC Birmingham

We visited the clothes how live last December, a good day out for us 16-19 year olds and a great experience but we all were disappointed by the shopping, we expected fairly priced boutiquey clothes and accessory stalls that were different to what you would find on the high street, instead we found the most of the stalls were cheap and tacky and similar to what you would find at your local market. Hidden amongst these were a few vintage and boutique like stalls but most were overpriced and not as exciting as what we had hoped. The actual clothes show was lots of fun and very entertaining but were disappointed that the special guest boy band ‘JLS’ did not actually perform instead played other artists music and a bit of dancing. The other acts on the other hand were very good and left some of us inspired by the fashion, dancing and acting. When we got hungry we headed to the food room to find a few overpriced burger vans and a sub way, we were also disappointed by this and thought they could of chosen a few more exciting catering company’s for the clothes show customers. Although as we were hungry, Subway went down well. Overall a fun day out and something to experience and I would most probably visit again.

By Chloe Sutton

Do we need regulation?

Every day we watch media, whether it be in the cinema, on the TV or online. Have you ever thought of how it’s regulated? I didn’t until it was unveiled to me by my tutor for my college course, Events Management.

 

There are four main regulatory bodies, that have created a set of rules that advertising, films, television programmes and newspapers have to all abide to so that its fit for all purposes of the public. Listed below are the regulators:

             ASA – investigate complaints about advertising.

             Ofcom – Regulates television, radio and mobile phones.

             BBFC – National classification of films, video games and adverts.

             PCC – Deals with complaints received about newspapers, tabloids and magazines.

 

The UK and the US remain the harshest regulators of film and television reflecting a form of cultural regulation – in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and many other European countries. Images on television news programmes of violence in war torn countries are far more graphic and less censored at source by the broadcaster reflecting government restrictions. An example of this is when bin laden was killed most countries were shown live footage of this but the UK and this is because of the regulation in place, it ensures that all possible viewers can’t be affected of what is shown.

 

Regulation is becoming weaker and isn’t as strongly monitored as it used to be. Due to recent changes in the rules from the BBFC, 15 certificate films in recent years have received certificates that ten years ago would have been classified as 18 – films like Fish Tank (2009) and Precious (2009) both contained hard hitting scenes of incest, under age sex and rape and also excessive, repeated swearing but were classified as 15. 18 films as well now contain content which would not have received a certificate historically but if the BBFC are to be believed U and UC criteria has been tightened up. This is more effective as films that only 18 and above public would be able to view but now it enables 15 year olds to view the say content but at a much more immature age.

 

There are many arguments for and against regulating the press and television in the UK. The font in green is for more regulation, and the font in pink is against more regulation.

Control on what is said on air via radio and television – e.g. Jonathon Ross and Russell Brands’ lewd comments about Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter in 2009 on BBC Radio 2 the BBC was fined £150,000

 

The environment of reception would also be an issue interlinked with regulation – a young person watching Saw in the bedroom at 1am alone in the house is far more likely to be affected than if they were watching the film with a group of friends at 1pm. In a similar way modes of reception are also an issue with primary reception (cinemas) suggesting a more focused, engaged audience while secondary reception (television, DVD, interactive) suggests that if audiences have more control over the way they access media then there are likely to be less issues. The concept of the watershed is arguably irrelevant not just because of this but also because of the naivety that children will be in bed by 9pm.

 

As technology becomes increasingly easier to access it becomes harder to regulate as most news are now posted via the internet. There is a strong argument that suggest that contemporary media audiences are much more sophisticated, active consumers of the media and media representations and are less in need of protection via censorship and regulation but to what degree and who censors the information. A method to regulate this would be ‘nanny state’ which keeps consumers safe from evil media corporations; it is where the state has control over what is published.

 

I think that regulation in the media will always be an ongoing argument between the government and the public. I personally think that as a country we need to be regulated on what we see, hear and read every day to protect all ages, personalities and people in the public so that no one gets offended or affected by what they see.

 

Let us know what you think at eventstudentcamre@outlook.co.uk

 

 

Written by: Kathryn Wolff

A year studiying Events Management

 

This year I have been studying Events Management.

Within the course you learn not only about events but all the key features of the media industry. But other than all the subjects I have learnt. I have developed many new skills that will help me in my event career path! During the course I have developed specialist skills, employability skills, core skills, personal learning skills and social and community skills.

In the course you study many subjects: Marketing and PR, Writing copy, page layout. You cover a variety of things that can help you in all aspects of events whether it’s promoting using a video or poster or learning the legal side of creating an event. For example in the subject ‘understanding video and technology’ I have learnt how to use a camera (something I never thought I would understand) and what shots make a piece of work look effective, this will help me in promoting events. In the lesson page layout and design I can use my layout skills to make a poster look professional and aesthetically pleasing in order to promote my event well.

Events Management allows you to be very independent. If you need to book a specific place in the college or email an expert you must find the resources yourself, to some people this could sound a right pain but to be honest it’s really helped me, I’m now self-reliable and can crack on with things which makes task a lot more time efficient and overall it’s really helped my communication skills.

Within events a key part of it is work experience this can help you with getting a job in the industry or getting into university. There are a variety of job roles you can follow in events:

Marketing and communication manager

Events and hospitality event planner

Sales assistant (In store events)

 

 

Social networking in Events Management

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In the past week you have likely tweeted about your journey to

college; Facebook stalked your ex, uploaded a picture of your breakfast on Instagram and watched a sneezing panda on YouTube.

But as an events manager, it is important for you to understand how social networking has changed how companies take advantage of how they can promote events.

Starting off with Facebook. You may have already come across Facebook’s ‘create an event’ page when you wanted to notify people about your birthday meal at Pizza Hut. But the event page is one of the most useful elements to Event Managers. For example you could place your event on there and invite people who fit your target audience and get an idea of how many people are going to turn up.

However, even though Facebook has 1.1billion users, not everyone is on there. So make sure you don’t just advertise it on Facebook, as they may result in not all of your target audience knowing about the event.

Secondly on to Instagram. Now owned by Facebook, the app allows you to upload pictures, edit them then hash tag what is going on in the picture. Because anyone can see your pictures, this is a good way to promote your event to people who may not have heard of you.

However the app is only available on Apple App store, so it is not available to everyone. #not #a #wide #audience.

Lastly on to twitter. A site that allows users to tweet what they are doing in no more than 140 characters with also being able to add hash tags, pictures and videos. If you wanted to promote your events company you can pay twitter to put an advertisement on everyone’s twitter page.

However if you have a low budget then you will only be able to tweet to your followers, all 13 of them.

Over all the biggest problem is that not everyone has a social networking website, so poster is still the most effective way. But by using social networking you are allowing people to talk about your events and be able to get feedback.

By Eliza Pearson 

Pop in the Park

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On the 7^th – 9^th June the local citizens of March town joined together once again in the park for the annual summer festival. Here you can find a hand-picked selection of the most talented people ranging from rock bands to street dancers and gentle lullabies. The fun-filled event offers three different themed days to suit everybody – Friday is Rock in the Park, Saturday is Pop in the Park and Sunday is the family friendly Picnic in the Park. 

 A lot of organisation goes into the planning process for this event, with more volunteers dedicating their free time each year to see the successful running of the whole weekend. Thanks to the good-willed nature of these volunteers, the event is also able to run for free each year attracting hundreds of people, whether they are young or old. 

 There is also a large variety of food, refreshments and treats available which are provided by external companies. You can find hog roasts, burger vans, ice creams, freshly cooked donuts and the classic ‘fairground style’ sweet stalls. The event is a great place for young children too as the park is filled with rides, bouncy castles and win-a-prize activities to keep them entertained. As an events manager, it is clear that once again an enthusiastic team of organisers have worked hard to organise and run March’s biggest event.

 

Shanise Fowler

CRC Live Lounge

On Friday 21^st June, us, the events students at Cambridge Regional College organized a live radio set broadcast on 'Live' radio. The set was called CRC Live Lounge. The music played was blasted round through the College so many students could listen to the live and prerecorded music, as well as an interview with the acoustic musician. The event was a complete success and was enjoyed by many. The acoustic musician was called Lewis Eldrige, he played his own song called ‘Two.” He had a fantastic voice and really blew the audience away. We also had many pre-recorded tracks from artists such as Jimmy Ostler and Marley Hoare, which featured a dubstep genre of music, which was spot on with what much of our target audience wanted from the event. The radio students also excelled themselves and really did us proud by making our event the best it could be. A quick shout out to the two radio presenters, Bex and Tom, thank you so much for your hard work. As our event was such a success, we hope to produce another event like this in the future but on a bigger scale. If you came to our event, we hope you enjoyed it and make sure to come to other events held by the CRC events team.

Jessica Hall