Wednesday, April 9, 2014

April 2nd - April 9th: Reflection

So, I feel all of the hard work and effort that this class put into the festival really paid off. I believe we created and provided an extraordinarily professional event for all of the undergraduate scholars, filmmakers, students, and everyone else. I believe everything went smoothly throughout the event, and I think this is what most surprised me. I have a tendency to think that for events like Visions everything will go wrong. After we started running a little bit behind in the morning for the keynote, my worries began to increase, and I began to worry even more once I saw a herd of rowdy teenagers walking through the hallway, disturbing the interview with Kiva and the presentations for Conference Block 1. I am also pleased to see from the responses from the attendees that this film festival and conference was well received by the filmmakers and scholars as well as the attendees.

If I had the chance to go back and do something differently (which I most likely will), I would try do something about those teenagers and other people walking around the outside of Lumina Theater. I would want someone to wrangle everyone who tries to walk through that area and redirect them somewhere else.


As for anything that I would do the same? There is a lot considering the success we had this year. First of all, I would make sure that we have the same media setup, including but not limited to the combining of all of the presentations into one PowerPoint for each of the conference blocks and the same structure for the DVD/Blu-ray setups as well as keeping the same setup notes for next year.

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