'Cultures' page for website

Me and my fellow group member Hannah Montgomery created this draft of what we want our ‘Cultures’ page to look like on the website. We envisage the layout to look like this, and we told our web member we would prefer that when you hover over each image, that person’s profile comes up (name and culture) followed by their interview, as demonstrated in the image below.

These photographs were taken by our group’s photographer Chloe Jones.

The interviews weren’t going to be distributed evenly anyway due to the 8 interviews needed between 5 journalists but each journalist group member was supposed to interview at least one person each from different cultures for this page. However this did not end up being the case: Hannah (3 interviews) me (2 interviews) Luke (2 interviews) and Stuart (1 interview). Callum didn’t interview anyone, which is unfortunate in the sense it didn’t go as our group had planned. But Hannah and I sorted it out by making sure we had enough interviewees for the page, with back-ups also.

I set a word count of 200-250 words and provided the structure for each interview, for consistency. However one interview sent via email was far too short (the questions were longer than the answers!), so this group member had to refer back to the interviewee and get more from them to bulk up the word count to an acceptable figure.

These interviews took place over social messaging sites such as Facebook messages, and some took place via face-to-face interviews (such as both of mine).

The finalised culture content was sent to our web group member on Thursday 31^st March, and now we wait for the web team to work their magic before we get to see the finished product on the BCUltural website!

VENUE CONFIRMATION!

Our venue was confirmed on the 23^rd March!

Our BCUltural event will take place at The Rainbow in Digbeth (B12 0LD), and will include:  a photography exhibition, cinema, food, live music, fashion shows, radio broadcasts, a fashion show, a raffle etc. An update from the Production Event lecture on Wednesday 30^th March revealed that the PR group are also organising a press conference for the day, radio members are currently creating some documentaries and the music industries team have secured 9 bands. If for any reason plans fall through, Bar 42 (City North Campus) is the back-up venue for the event.

My Contribution To The Event

I am working in a group as a journalist, with 3 other journalists, a photographer and a web production specialist.

As a group, we will all provide contributions to the main website about the Production Event, specifically the music pages, but also a page based on multiculturalism, where we will select 8 people from different cultures who are from the media course, and get them to talk about their culture and also their role in the Production Event. There will be a picture of each person stood underneath each letter of the word ‘CULTURES’.  This page aims to tell the audience a little bit more about different cultures and also the Production Event itself.

I will also individually contribute an article to the online magazine. This will be based on the St. Patrick’s Day Birmingham Festival & Parade.

Our Event!

This blog has been set up to document the progression of Birmingham City University’s Production Event, which is being organised by first year Media and Communications students. The event is called ‘BCUltural’, with the theme of ‘Multiculturalism’.

This will involve all of us media students setting up a spectacular media event, which provides us with the chance to use our media skills.

Our event aims to create awareness of multiculturalism in Birmingham and targets a fairly wide audience.