Blog entry #11

Made Real x ShiokSG event

Today, June 27, Robin and Roslyn wanted us to go to east coast park to help them with the event they were holding with shioksg. 3 of us were supposed to go today but in the end I was the only one that went. Although Ging Yang, who was supposed to go tomorrow, did rush down to help in the afternoon.

As the participation rate was less than expected today, I had to walk around with Roslyn to advertise for Made Real and their event, to encourage people to join the event. Me and Ging Yang also had to join some of the events as there were not enough people. I feel that today's event helped me to learn and prepare for our own event in SP. Things like, what to expect for our own event and what to do if there were not enough people willing to participate. Since I had to walk around with Roslyn carrying the Made Real box, I learnt how to present myself to advertise by watching her interact with the public/potential customers. When speaking to people, I noticed that she always redirected them to their social media page like Facebook and Instagram. This way even if people do not go for their event they would still be increasing the exposure for their social media accounts. 

A photo of me and another intern with ShiokSG's founders
on Made Real's instagram page advertising for their event

I stayed from 10am to 4pm and I think today was good exposure prior to our SP event and it also gave me a chance to watch how Robin and Roslyn promoted their business to the all age groups of the public.

Me and Ging Yang after the event ended! (also SEA games athlete Melanie,
who came to promote the event, in the background!)

Blog entry#16

26 June 2015 (Friday)

  Ging Yang and me was having another Skype meeting at 3:15 pm after we have completed our DMB storyboard. This time, we discussed about the email to be sent to Han Jun, the crew management. We typed out the details of the event in the google docs and since Ging Yang has the contact number of Han Jun and sending him a message which is so long is quite inconvenient so I asked Ging Yang to ask Han Jun for his email address. In the google docs, we typed out the details and the things required from them. 

  From what I heard from Ging Yang, he said that Shellvia, the SDZ president, had told him that we have to at least give him some benefit for helping us out for the event which I have completely no idea what beneficial conditions we can give him. But after we have complete with the email that have to be sent to Han Jun, we moved on to SMM local company slide.

Because our lecturer, Ms Dora, had told us that our slides (overseas and local) must have the ”Most engaging content“ in their social media platform. The local company which chose at first is NomBox which we have done a complete slide for it already have to be deleted away as this company lack of brand awareness and have very little likes, comments and shares in their Facebook and other social platform. Ging Yang and me decide to change into Kawaii Box which sells Korean and Japan cute products to our doorstep. We deleted the Nom Box information and start to research on the Kawaii Box. I stopped doing the slides at around 5:45 pm as I have to rush to my CCA, Taekwando which is at 7 pm. I continued the slides after I reach home at 11 pm++, do some more research and typing until 1:50 am before going to sleep. 

blog entry #15

25June 2015 (Thursday morning)

Today in LHK Building, we helped the Made Real fold boxes for their Guava pass and Shiok event on this coming weekends from 10:30 to around 2pm. After putting our belongings down on the floor inside the office, we were separated into two groups to help them out. Ging Yang, Zong Wei and me helped with the packaging of the snack boxes that were for the Shiok event. Jun Hao also helped together with us.

 After we have finished with the Shiok boxes, we went to ask Robin what can we help and we were assigned to fold the boxes for the Guava pass event. We were joking around celebrating to go home after the folding of the boxes but there was more packaging of Guava pass boxes after we finished with the folding. 

  Soon after, we joined Zheng Yi and Roseann to cut the magazines papers into strips as there is a lack of purple-coloured paper used as the base of the boxes and the shredder also needs a rest. We have to cut the magazines with a scissors and find out the most effective ways to cut the magazines. We have a little chit-chat with Jun Hao in the office which cutting the magazines. Robin said that she has to leave as she has a meeting in the city at 2:30pm and we started to clean up the office before leaving the office and head back home.

25 June 2015 (Thursday night)

Ging Yang and me chatted in skype to discuss a new schedule for the dancers which we chose an alternative dates since one of our events is in the HBL week. We have the dates to be at 15, 20, 24 July for our mini flash mob and 14 August for the road show. It was mid-night when we was discussing this through so we decide to send this email to Strictly Dance Zone (SDZ) that night and end the discussion here.

Blog entry #14

24 June 2015 (Wednesday)

Today we have planned to meet in SP to do our incomplete assignment and I reached school at around 12 noon , Me, Zong Wei and Ging Yang went into the main library inside the drawing room to start doing SMM, DMB work which we managed to complete the local slide and combine it with the overseas slides. We also managed to do some amendments to our slides before Wei Jie came and joined us. Wei Jie did the editing part which he found some errors in our slides and help us changed it. Ging Yang and me decide to ask whether the dancers are free or not to meet us to discuss some issue and details for the 4 events that we are planning to hold in SP. Their president replied saying that she is free at around 7pm but I have to go home at around 5pm so I was not unable to join the meeting with the dancers.

At home, Ging Yang skype me at 7:30pm saying that the dancer president, Shellvia, is coming soon and that he was alone by himself. Because I was at home so I could not do anything much. I just hear their conversation and asked a few question to Shellvia. While Ging Yang was there, he let her to look through our proposal. Shellvia told him that maybe she is going to ask 40 dancers to participate in our event but applying for LOA is an issue. But after knowing that the event that we are holding is not SP main event so the dancers are unable to apply for LOA as result. Our group suggest to stick with 20 dancers for each event to make things simpler for the dancers which I don’t know whether it is effective or not. Shellvia also gave Ging Yang the contact info of Han Jun, the crew management, in order to borrow two speakers for our upcoming-event which we decide to discuss this another day.

Blog Entry #7

Saturday 27/6

  After a long time of finding a Audio live streaming platform, I finally found one that is user-friendly and mobile-friendly. The platform is called Mixlr and it is a very simple yet powerful audio streaming platform. It have a chat room where the people that are listening to it, can comment and discuss among themselves. Also, to make it easier, it can be embed in Social Medias like Facebook and Twitter to let the audio stream from there. This is a lot easier for users to have access to the audio streaming.

  At first, the plan was to use SoundCloud for the task. However, I could not understand or it may not have the function of live streaming. After like a 1 week playing around with SoundCloud, I gave up and went on to find other platforms. Youtube live streaming seems viable so I gave it a try. However, due to some problem with the account verification, I could not do it. Soon after, I found this platform from my friend which is called Sub Sonic. It is not really user-friendly and i was confused with how it works.
 
  Then, I chanced upon Mixlr and finally works. I made an account and started testing it on computer and my own phone. Another good point to it is that, the user do not have to make an account on the phone app to listen to live stream. However, they are unable to chat in the chatroom.
 
  Below is the snapshot of the Mixlr application. It have a clean and simple user-interface to it. And it support embedding really easily and if people wish to find the live stream via a link, all the functions are there on the top of the application.

Blog Entry #6

Saturday 27/6
   There was an event held at East Coast Park by Made Real and we were told to go help out. However, in my opinion, the event does not really seem to be useful for us to learn. Anyway, I was leaving my house and was heading towards Dakota to meet with the rest. However, halfway through the journey, I got a phone call that told me that, my father had fainted while having check up at the hospital. So, I have no choice but to turn back and head towards Novena instead. This event is held for two days, so maybe I will go and help out for tomorrow's event instead.
 
   Prior to this event, the previous meetings, I could not go as I already have event to go to. By skipping this again, it seems like the Made Real people are getting a negative image of me skipping all their meetings and event. Also because I did not went for the previous meeting where work on the Local and Oversea project have been done, I could only just build up on it instead of starting it.

Blog entry #17

For 25,26 June 2015 (Thu,Fri)

Me and Qi Wen chat through skype at midnight and sent the email to the SDZ on the updated timing and all general information that is required to let the SDZ dancers know.


Below is the evidence