pre-seminar: There was a little bit of feedback noise from the mics but the lightings were good. The seminar did not start on time due to a late arrival from one of the guest speakers. The emcee was also not very confident of herself. Furthermore, the volume on her mic was not adjusted properly which resulted in her voice not projected well across the room. She seemed hesitant and nervous and was unable to prepare the audience for the seminar.
seminar: As the seminar name suggested, a panel of speakers hailing from different fields in the media were present i.e Sports Media, Public Relations, Video Games, Advertising and a Jack of all Trades. With such a broad range of potential topics to engage in, I thought that it was going to be a thoroughly entertaining seminar. However, this was not the case. The questions that were asked of them were more of general questions (e.g did you see yourself working in this particular field, what's the best part of your job or what skills can we equip ourselves to stand out from the rest?). I was hoping to hear more of these questions:
1) Can you describe us more of the media field that you specialise in?
2) What are the future trends in your media field?
3) Will there be huge changes in your media field in the near future?
Nevertheless, the guest speakers did a good job of answering their questions to the best of their ability. The late guest speaker (Fran Derham) still came to the seminar. I was hoping she would have made it up by having better content to share, but alas she was disappointing. She provided the same answers as her fellow speakers.
The seminar was meant to give us an insightful scope of the different media fields and perharps crucial advice to those who wanted to pursue a career in either one of the media fields. It was overall a very disappointing seminar because of the lack of quality content. This was made worst by the fact that it ended 1 hour earlier.
Post seminar: Most of the audience promptly left once the seminar had concluded. Those that stayed behind to have a short chat with the guest speakers mainly consisted of the group that conducted the seminar. Again, it highlighted the lack of quality of the seminar.
I approached Leah Mirabella, communications co-ordinator at Hawthorn Football Club. She had seemed like a perfect candidate to have in my PNR and I was hoping to get some quotes from her. It proved successful as she did give me some helpful tips in pursueing a career in sports journalism.
