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Project Management
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Today’s Class…
Committee Overview
Breakout Brainstorming Session
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The Project Outcome is simple…
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Stage a New Media Showcase to
Promote the Excellent Work
Generated by New Media
Students
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• You are the architects building an event
out of an idea.
• The activity that will help you the most in this class is…
• ATTENDING EVENTS
– Art openings
– Art shows
– Media events
– Campus talks
• It will give you ideas for what you might want to do and what
NOT to do.
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• Five Project Fundamentals
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Projects are one-time efforts
Projects are unique
Projects have limited and defined time spans
Projects are about change
Projects have defined outcomes
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• It all
comes
down to
this
process…
managing
planning
Project
Outcome
doing
controlling
monitoring
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• Take the Five Fundamentals into
consideration when choosing a Project
• Over the next 14 weeks this NMED 3700
Class shall:
a. present an 2-D art opening
b. present a film festival
c. present a large-scale web launch and interactive
catalogue publication
d. present two (2) or more of the above
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• Team/Committee Formation
• This course will be one part competitive and
three parts collaborative
– Each committee is a team that must raise the bar of
productivity for themselves and that of the other committees
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• Teams
–Communications & Marketing
–Resource Management &
Audience Development
–Programming
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Each team is to use today’s lab time 5:00-5:50pm to brainstorm
on an idea for the event.
• A brainstorming session should be used for generating lots of
new ideas and solutions. It should not be used for analysis or for
decision making. That comes next class.
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Step One: Identify Your Problem/
Opportunity
• This is already done. Use this session to generate ideas for
what kind of event should the class present
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Step Two: Find a location where you can
sit around a table to talk and take notes
• The library is best – it’s meant for working.
• Do not choose a location that will present interruptions or social
traffic.
• Smaller groups are easier to control but there are less people to
keep the process moving smoothly onward..
• A very small group is more like a quick-fire conversation and
could be seated round a small table so everyone can add their
ideas conversationally.
• Try to move the group close together so they don't feel remote
from each other.
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Step Three: Start the Record
• This is the first installment of your Project Log
• Everyone should take notes on this session and there
should be a facilitator who records the official
“minutes” of the meeting
– Record: Date, Time, Location, Names of Participants
• At the top of the page record the agenda question: What Kind
of Event Should We Present
• Underneath that make your laundry list of ideas and related
details
• Make it legible because everyone in the group will need a copy
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• The Facilitator. This person needs to introduce the session,
to keep an eye on the time and to make sure the meeting stays on
topic. This person will facilitate the session to make it run smoothly and
ensure that the participants feel comfortable and join in the process.
They will also be responsible for restarting the creative process if it
slows down.
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Step Four: Ideas You Must Generate and
Organize
• What kind of event?
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Art opening
Film festival
Web and catalogue launch
Something else
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Step Four: Ideas You Must Generate and
Organize
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Who is your audience?
Where is your event location?
Who will provide the content/art work?
When is your event?
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What is the name of your event?
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Thursday November 20
Friday November 21
Previous years: Cracked Pixels. Render Blender, Circuit Circus
How will you use 10-minutes to present your idea to the class?
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• If ideas begin to slow down consider events that you’ve
participated in, attended, seen on television for ideas.
– The don’t have to be art-related. Just a model of a successful event.
– Think of what is fun and interesting and memorable for you
• Presentation of your ideas should involve all team
members and can include media support materials, or even
class relocation to the location of your choice. The bottomline is we must get a sense of your team’s vision for the
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• In all instances, your team must decide: “Will this promote
the excellence of students in the New Media Department?”
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• How to Run A Brainstorm Session
• Every response must have a through rationale
– Refer back to the Process Diagram. Explain how the idea will be monitored,
managed, planned and controlled
– A rationale explains the reasoning behind your idea.
– Each rationale should be between 75-200 words.
– Please, note the resulting suggestion is NOT a contract but a potential
blueprint for a successful event.
• During the first half of Wednesday’s class each team will
have time to perfect their presentation.
• During the last half of Wednesday’s class each team will
make a 7-10 minute presentation on their idea.
• After each presentation has been, given you will vote as a
class on which event we will organize
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• Next Class…
–Wednesday: Event proposals for
The Event; Proposal selection by
class vote.