Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Week 6 post
I realize now that I've been missing these blog posts. the past two weeks, Ive been throwing most of my energy into the bake sale. now that that's over, I've been able to focus more on contacting individuals in charge of parking and waste collection at UNCW and will have face to face meetings scheduled with them by the end of this week. after these meetings, I will hopefully be pretty much set with my operations duties until closer to the event. after that, I will begin to prepare for the next bake sale.
Monday, February 2, 2015
week three
For this week, I drafted an email to the campus parking manager, Ken Kaiser, so that the class could review it and make suggestions during my operations presentation. I was also given a new job, running the bake sale, so I've been getting up to speed on that. in preparation for the bake sale job, I posted a "dirty dozen" review of that task in another blog post.
Dirty Baker's Dozen
1. What?
-This project is gonna rake in the dough, pun intended. I'm told the last bake sale made $358, so I'm aiming for 400.
2. Customer?
-Friends, classmates, the random passerby on Chancellor's. People who like other people and want them to have some baked goods, and people who like baked goods.
3. Deliverables?
-Our primary tangible deliverable is cash money, to be used for the spending and such, hopefully about 400 dollars worth.
An intangible deliverable would probably be awareness on campus of our event.
4. Budget?
- This segment is currently under construction
5. How long?
- The event will be 9 hours, from 9 am until 6 pm on Wednesday, feb 11th. set up will take one hour before hand, and cleanup will take roughly an hour afterword. there will be an hour or two in the week leading up for posting posters and baking bakies and such.
6. Specific needed skills?
- we need sales people to sit the tables, as well as people who know how to operate an oven for to do the baking and such.
7. Special resources?
- Tables, The Goods
8. Who's working on this?
- Everyone! everyone will be providing baked goods, supplies, and time at the table
9. Schedule?
-print posters feb 5th
post those posters feb 6th
event happens feb 11th
10. Risks?
- Big risk would probably be that no one buys stuff. another could be weather. Unlikely risks include forgetting the baked stuff, not getting the tables delivered, and no one showing up.
11. how will you communicate with the team?
-Facebook, cell phone, google drive, class
12. How will you determine if the project is successful?
- if we make a good ol chunk of cash. preferably 400 and above.
-This project is gonna rake in the dough, pun intended. I'm told the last bake sale made $358, so I'm aiming for 400.
2. Customer?
-Friends, classmates, the random passerby on Chancellor's. People who like other people and want them to have some baked goods, and people who like baked goods.
3. Deliverables?
-Our primary tangible deliverable is cash money, to be used for the spending and such, hopefully about 400 dollars worth.
An intangible deliverable would probably be awareness on campus of our event.
4. Budget?
- This segment is currently under construction
5. How long?
- The event will be 9 hours, from 9 am until 6 pm on Wednesday, feb 11th. set up will take one hour before hand, and cleanup will take roughly an hour afterword. there will be an hour or two in the week leading up for posting posters and baking bakies and such.
6. Specific needed skills?
- we need sales people to sit the tables, as well as people who know how to operate an oven for to do the baking and such.
7. Special resources?
- Tables, The Goods
8. Who's working on this?
- Everyone! everyone will be providing baked goods, supplies, and time at the table
9. Schedule?
-print posters feb 5th
post those posters feb 6th
event happens feb 11th
10. Risks?
- Big risk would probably be that no one buys stuff. another could be weather. Unlikely risks include forgetting the baked stuff, not getting the tables delivered, and no one showing up.
11. how will you communicate with the team?
-Facebook, cell phone, google drive, class
12. How will you determine if the project is successful?
- if we make a good ol chunk of cash. preferably 400 and above.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Festivals of Their Own
I found this article to be very interesting. I have only personally been to one film festival, but I was swept up by it and I've been taken in by the atmosphere surrounding festivals, which was a big part of my decision to join Visions. It was very interesting to read about the formation of the major festivals, such as Cannes and Sundance. It was a chunk of history that I had never read about before. The most exciting part of the article was the section on underground festivals. It was cool to see Cucalorus on the list, and I'll admit to wasting a lot of time looking the others up on FilmFreeway while I was reading. to read about underground festivals always makes me excited about my own projects and ready to enter into as many as possible, and I'm excited to be participating on the other side with Visions5.
Job Description/Department Manual
So it's my first week of involvement with Visions5, and my head is spinning from all the new information coming at me. It makes me both excited and apprehensive to see all of the aspects of the event I will be in charge of as Facilities Coordinator. For this first week, I went over what would be expected of me in the job description and manual several times, and began to make an outline of what I would be doing over the next month. this outline included a timeframe of when I would contact Ken Kaiser with parking (late February) and scheduling some time to walk through FSC and study the disability access points. I am coming to realize that Visions will be a bit more challenging than i may have originally anticipated, but I feel that I am ready for that challenge, and will become more and more comfortable as time goes on.
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