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Week 1:

Week 1: blog 1

The business dictionary defined event as an “Occurrence happening at a determinable time and place, with or without the participation of human agents”, the definition given here seems too general and incomplete. For an event to be categorised as a success, there are a lot of planning and organisation that goes into arranging an event, there are research involved and in most cases there are financial involvement. An event is not just an occurrence that just happens at a time and place as the definition above suggested but a well planed, researched and organised gathering of people for an outcome. 

Many authors has categorises event into different forms. Shone and Parry 2004(In Tum, Norton and Wright, 2006:10) categorised events into four different types:

Looking at Shone and Parry’s classification, Hull Media Showcase could be categorised as a mixture of both cultural events and personal.  The aim of showcase is to present the group’s media work some to potential employers, friends and family members, therefore the showcase consist of a personal side and also an artistic side. The showcase can also fall in the organisational events category as in a way the showcase is to help sell the students talents.

As Tum, Norton and Wright, (2006: p13) suggested that an event “needs to fulfil a need” . The mission statement for the showcase is to ‘To show and demonstrate the skills and talent of the students at Hull College and also to provide a chance for networking’.  Tum, Norton and Wright, (2006: p13) further empathises on the importance of the mission statement, stating that “the mission should then become the focus of the event” However continuing on page 31, the authors explained that the published mission statement is often different from the ‘true mission statement’ and it is “important for the event manager to understand what the true mission is, irrespective of what might be stated in the published mission”

Part of the learning outcome for this module includes the ability to apply management skills, exhibition of work and reflect on self performance within the group. As this is an important aspect of the module, these three outcomes is part of the true mission statement as well as students networking and showcase talent and work with potential employers.

In order to be able to work effectively as a group, a working contract had to agree on. During the first meeting, all the team members suggested some of the agreements that should be included in the contracts, also looking into other examples of group contract online and reflecting previous group work over the years and the problems that we encountered, i was able to draft a group working contract.