Blog entry #16

For 25 June 2015 (Thursday)

Today in aljunied LHK Building ,we have helped the Made Real people to fold their boxes from 10.30am to 2.30pm and help them packed for their Saturday and Sunday event.

(Part 1)

At first, when we arrived at LHK Building, we went into the meeting room and put down our belongings and move to the packing room and receive orders from Robin and Roslyn, for my sub group, me, Qi Wen and Zong Wei, we helped to package the Made Real snack boxes that collaborated with shiok (we packaged 90 boxes). People helping in the room were Jun Hao, me , Qi Wen and Zong Wei.

At the same time, Zyi , Roseann and Teng Fon helped to shred the magazines into pieces by the shredder and cut and paste the stickers for the collaboration with Guava Pass.

(Part 2)

After the shiok boxes were packed. Three of us ( Qi Wen, Zong Wei and I) went into the meeting room and ask what can we help as we have packed finish the shiok boxes. Then Robin told us to help pack the guava pass box, we went back to the packing room and folded many many boxes (extra) and after that we were asked to shred the magazines by hand using the small scissors as the purple colour paper ran out.

After all, I think that we have learnt how to package Made Real Boxes, even though their boxes only have 5 items but the work to fold the boxes, work to cut and shred the purple colour paper , the work to shred the magazines by shredder or by hand, the package of items correctly into the Made Real boxes and the tying of the Made Real Boxes. The delivery process and the petrol oil used by the vehicle. All the processes above are important and fussy. Thus, making a Made Real Box isn't seems as easy as you look.

We also discussed on what are the final details to send to the dance group because since the dance group people cannot take LOA then Qi Wen and I (We) discussed about the timing and all to send to Shellvia (President of SDZ).

Blog entry #10

Today, June 25, me, Qi Wen, Zong Wei, Zyi and Ging Yang went to Made Real's office at Aljunied to help them prepare snackboxes for their event this Saturday and Sunday. We were there from 10.30am till 2pm to prepare the boxes.

Us in their office after packing all the boxes!

Me and Zyi folded and pasted the logos on the boxes and Zong Wei, Qi Wen and Ging Yang packed the items into the boxes.

The amount of boxes we folded and packed today!

We folded about 150 boxes today!

After packing the boxes, all of us had to cut up magazines into shreds to be used to fill the boxes. Today was interesting as I never knew how much work was put into making one box. We had to fold the box, stick the logo, shred the magazines to fill it and pack the items and everything was done by the interns and Robin and Roslyn by hand.

After leaving Made Real's office, Ging Yang informed us that the dance group had agreed to collaborate with us! Thanks to Ging Yang for settling things with the dance group! Now, we are working on how to synchronize our event timing with the dance group's timetable. 

Blog entry #15

For 24 June 2015 (Wednesday)

People attended the meeting for the CPT, SMM and DMB project : Ging Yang, Wei Jie, Zong Wei and Qi Wen

Today is a long day, I reach SP around 11.45am , Me Qiwen and Zong Wei went into the main library drawing room and completed the local group slides and combined it with the overseas group slides and let Wei Jie see the final slides and adjust the slides if necessary, after that Wei Jie uploaded the Final combined slides into the google docs and let Roseann and Zyi to do the final see. They we are ready to send the SMM CA10 Slides to Ms Dora already.



People attended the meeting with the dance club: Ging Yang.

As for the dance group, I have a meeting with them from 7.20pm to 8pm on that night. It was after their training and they ask for two main things. Firstly, are they possible to appy LOA when they are helping us to dance. I have also asked Ms Dora on that day night and she said to me that it is not an SP event and thus cannot let the dancers apply LOA. Secondly, they want to know whether they need to wear any specific clothes by Made Real or they can just wear their CCA clothes. I have told them that they can wear their CCA clothes. Shellvia also gave me the contact info of the crew management team and I will contact Han Jun today to borrow the two speakers from him and will get the speakers ready for the 3 flash mobs.

Blog entry #9

On the June 22 meeting, other than the interns all sharing their progress on their individual projects with Robin and Roslyn, Robin and Roslyn also shared with us what they have been planning the past few weeks.

Made Real is collaborating with Shiok SG to hold a health and fitness event this Saturday and Sunday the 27th and 28th of June.

This is the poster for their event!

Robin and Roslyn told us that they wanted all the interns to go for the event to help out and gain exposure before our own event in SP in August. When we told them that we couldn't make it on Sunday as school reopened the next day, they suggested that we split ourselves into groups of 3 so one group would attend on Saturday and the other group on Sunday. Robin and Roslyn also wanted us to go to their office this Thursday to help them pack the boxes for the event.

Robin and Roslyn also invited us to sit in on their meeting with Shiok SG's co-founder and public relations manager at 7.30pm that day. Me, Zyi, Ging Yang, Zong Wei and Qi Wen agreed to sit in on the meeting. Hence we stayed at SMU labs after the morning meeting was over to wait for the next meeting. In the time between both meetings, me and Zyi managed to complete almost all of our slides for the overseas group. Zyi had already added in all the pictures of NatureBox and I added in the content analysis of all of Naturebox's social media platforms, the good and the bad parts of how they managed their social media accounts, Made Real's diagnostic screenshots and the suggestions for improvements. 

At the 7.30pm meeting between Made Real and Shiok when we sat in, I felt that it was very informative. As they discussed the logistics for their event, it gave me some ideas on how to get the logistics for our own event. They also discussed how to market their event on their social media, Facebook and Instagram, which also gave me ideas on how we could promote our event. It was very interesting to see the way they attracted people to the event. As they had personal trainers for the event and the rates the trainers charged were $80 for a class, people who bought the $30 tickets for the event would gain $50 worth which would make buying the tickets worthwhile for them. This was interesting for me as I never thought of marketing the tickets that way. Made Real also had a problem with one of the event vendors not being able to show up but they fixed that problem easily and very quickly. This made me realize that when we hit hurdles such as the dance group not replying our emails when planning for our event, we should find a way around it, come up with another plan as quickly as possible and not think of giving up. This meeting also made me realize that our event is so much smaller compared to theirs, therefore if they can do it why can't we? I came out of the meeting more resolved to make sure our event succeeded.  

Although we stayed at SMU labs from 10.30am to 9.00pm, when the meeting ended, and it was a very tiring day, I felt that it was also a very productive and informative day. I learnt a lot from sitting in at the 7.30pm meeting with Shiok SG. I also appreciate Robin and Roslyn letting us sit in on that meeting and helping us out with planning our event even though they are so busy with their 

upcoming event.

  

This is us at 9pm after a whole day at SMU labs! Although we
were all very tired, it was worth it! All smiles now that we get to go home! :D

Blog entry #8

We had a meeting with Robin, Roslyn, Roslyn's sister and the other interns on June 22 at SMU labs. We were there at 10.30 am for the meeting and during the meeting we gave Robin and Roslyn a progress report on our event preparation. We had managed to create a Facebook event page for our event.

A screenshot of our event page!

Zyi designed the poster/flyer for the event which Robin agreed to let us print at Made Real's office in Aljunied.  ZongWei tried to contact the dance group and I created an event for people to RSVP for the Silent Disco Flash Mob.

A screenshot of the event I created

Blog entry #7

On June 17, all 6 of us went to SMU labs to meet with Roslyn and Natalie to work on the cold-calling. During the meeting Roslyn further improved our script for the cold-calling and Zyi volunteered to cold call one of the media publications on the list. After this, our group discussed how we could stream the music and instructions for our silent flash mob on Spotify, Soundcloud or Youtube. Roslyn and Natalie also tried to help us search for ways and apps to do a livestream for the event.

Subsequently, we split up into the our overseas group, me , Zyi and Weijie and our local group, ZongWei, QiWen and GingYang, to do our presentation slides. Originally Weijie had selected Lootcrate as our overseas case study. However me and Zyi were not familiar with Lootcrate as it is a gaming subscription box. Hence afterwards,we changed it to NatureBox which is very similar to Made Real as it is also a healthy monthly food subscription box.

After the meeting, I also tried to do a trial livestream on YouTube. Unfortunately, I could only figure out how to do the video stream but not the audio stream with the music and the instructions.

Blog entry #6

On the 10th of June we went to SMU labs to meet with Teng Fon, another intern, and Natalie for them to give us their opinions on the cold-calling. Prior to this, we had been instructed by Robin to shortlist ten media publications that would be willing to feature Made Real for free. On the day of the meeting, Natalie and Teng Fon further shortlisted the list of media publications that Me, Qi Wen, Zyi, Ging Yang and Weijie had done. Below is a picture of the list of media publications that we compiled for Made Real.

As Zong Wei and Qi Wen had to leave the meeting earlier to go for cca camp, me, Zyi and Ging Yang stayed to do the cold-calling script for both email and phone.