Professional Practice for Events

Week 3 This week, I have contributed towards producing a competitive analysis for each item in both my groups, catering and event design. For catering, I researched the price of beers and soft drinks online at Supermarkets such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys. We found Budweiser the cheapest and most popular choice out of all beers (12pk for £8.99) in multiple supermarkets, so have decided to just serve this instead of adding Corona another popular choice (12pk for £11.00) on top of our budget. I also visited Lidl to take pictures of some ingredients used to make the canapes as these could not be found online. For event design, I researched the price of gold ribbon, a red carpet and a helium cannister on websites such as Amazon and Etsy. The helium cannister was taking up a large proportion of our budget (£32.50 from Amazon) so we tested sticking a balloon to the ceiling with a sticky dot and leaving it there overnight to see if it would stay and it did so we will now use sticky dots (3000p...

Week 2 This week we looked at aspects to consider when hosting an event. We looked at EMBOK design elements which included content, theme, programme, environment, production, entertainment and catering. Next, we divided ourselves up into groups based upon these design elements in order for us to focus our attention to specific parts of the organisation towards our event. I felt I could contribute most to the catering and event design team due to my previous and current career and creative imagination for new ideas. Symbolic interactionism was highlighted, reiterating the point that words are symbolic, meaning the name of our event needs to specify to the audience what the type of event is e.g., 'Cardiffmet Grad-ball'. We have also created a social media account on Instagram and TikTok to prepare to share posts and sneak peaks of our planning behind the scenes.  Collectively, we decided to change the colour theme of our event to navy, white and gold instead of black, red and gol...

                                                                                 Week 1   Before being assigned to our groups, we completed a Belbin test to find out how we can best contribute to a team project. It helped us to identify our strengths and weaknesses. The two groups were allocated based on our results from the Belbin test which indicated our roles as individuals e.g., I am a team worker. This means, all individuals will have complementary strengths in a team. Our first exercise as a team was to build the highest tower using just spaghetti and marshmallows in a race against the other group. Our group won highest structure, proving we worked efficiently as a team and communicated well.   Our event objective is to throw a graduation ball for all THE students ...