The Event!

We were able to set up the lighting and the green screen the evening before the event to save time on the day. Which, it would turn out we needed. We were in on event day bright and early and very eager to get set up. We let ourselves into the room and began running the equipment down from the floor above and getting it set up.

We got set up fairly efficiently, before beginning to wire everything up, taping them down as we went. Its then we struck a problem, the monitor we were planning to use for the students to be able to see what was happening couldnt be connecting to Reubens Mac, which the software was installed on. We then noticed the large projector screen to our right and the projector hanging behind us. We had to move the green screen set up around, but it was well worth it, as we now had everything the students needed to see on a large projector screen!

We were almost set up and ready to go when we had a call saying the students were here and that we had 15 minutes to get ready, 15 minutes should be fine we thought. 5 minutes later, the students walked in the door. We were nearing the end of preperation, so we decided to get them sat down and just go with it.

The preliminary introductions and the demonstrations went well, without hiccup. Due to the students arriving 15 minutes earlier than expected, our schedule had gone out of the window, so we had to call a 10 minute break in the middle to make up the remaining time.

A few of the students were quite responsive and were eager to come up and talk to us about the equipment, but unfortunately most were not and it was quite hard to get them to come forward and take part in the green screen demo. None of them would come and take the position of the news presenter, so myself and Lance had to stand in.

We had to hand out a short questionnaire at the end of the session so we could find out what they thought of the event as a whole. Results were quite varied as to what people thought, but it mostly came up good, with the green screen room recieving about 30-40% of the vote and the gatehouse career talks between 60-70%. We also recieved some good feedback about the presesntation and organisation.