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Its over! After an all-nighter on Sunday, we handed in the DVD to the General Office on Monday afternoon.
What an experience this has been.
Well I guess that’s the end of the blog. If you want a copy of the DVD to see how it all turned out, email: azilaka@yahoo.com
On behalf of Maryam and Akaliza: thank you to everyone who supported us in whatever way!
Well, we haven’t really used this blog in a long time. But we have been working!
So, since we’re low on time (we hand in the software on Monday) I will just give a quick update on what we’ve done in the past weeks:
Filming
- We interviewed Hazel Launder from the International Office.
- We interviewed the Registrar.
- We interviewed some international students in their on campus accommodation.
- We interviewed a Zimbabwean student, who uses the Sports Centre regularly. (26th March)
- We filmed more of the campus (26th March)
In addition we have also:
- Capturing and editing the footage.
- Finishing off the website, which is now purely a showcase for the DVD
- Working on the dvd menu – with diffuculty due to an apparant bug in Encore.
- Working on the green-screened student presentations
We still need to make our final cuts, and put everything on a dvd.
That’s all for now, and won’t write again untill Monday!
We finally filmed an interview with someone from the accommodation office. Coralie Norwood never got back to us because apparantly there were other people who came to do an interview and she assumed it was us. In the end we interviewed a man named Derek Goss. We did that today at 2:00.
We’ve also filmed the Kent Union Student Activities Sabbatical and also did an impromptu interview with the Education Sabbatical. All the intervies listed in Interviews III have now been done and are being edited, with the exception of the Kent Union President, who did not turn up on the day, and although we left a note and sent him an email, he never got back to us. We’ve decided to drop this interview because of this, and it is not too important as he will no longer be president in the year that the students this pack is aimed for arrive.
We’ve changed our logo again! It still has the plant theme, but we’ve changed it to shoots instead of broad leaves. We thought, this theme would be easier to work with in photoshop when designing our layouts and would work much better with any animation we decide to use. We’ve also decided to use Maiandra GD as our titles font. Here’s the new logo:
Interview with Islamic Society President at 2:00PM
Our interview with Kent Union President was cancelled!
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Yesterday we filmed the Anglican Chaplain, Revd. Stephen but our interview with the University’s Accommodation Customer Services Advisor, Coralie Norwood, was cancelled as she was on sick leave.
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This is what I did today:
- This evening I filmed the sports fields near Parkwood: there were some matches against Christchurch on.
- I also filmed the CPAS Gospel Choir rehearsals until I ran out of tape!
- I met (albeit accidentally) with the Anglican Chaplain and confirmed our meeting tomorrow.
- I also spoke to the University Publicity Office and I’m going to pick up my filming permit tomorrow.
Another productive day, the only disappointment was I did not manage to call the Muslim Chaplain.
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This is the basic format of the questions I have sent the chaplains to prepare for the interview. It is slightly adapted to suit each chaplain before sending it.
1. Please introduce yourself
(e.g. My name is… I am the chaplain of.. and my role involves…)
2. Please briefly explain the beliefs of your chaplaincy
3. How are the university students involved in your community
(e.g. do they regularly attend services, meetings?
are they involved in other areas such as leadership, administration, etc)
4. Is your community quite international? Please explain this more.
(e.g. do you know how many nationalities are represented,
do you communicate with other communities of your religion around the world,etc)
5. Do you have any advice or thoughts you would like to pass on to new international students coming to the university?
(e.g. do you feel they will feel welcome here,
are they any areas you feel they should be careful or wary about)
6. Is there anything else you would like to add?
I have given example answers but please do not feel limited to answer in that format. If there are any questions you feel confused about, please contact me. Or if there are any you would prefer not to answer, we will happily remove them. The last question is for you to add anything that you feel we missed out and that you believe would be useful to our project.
The religious leaders have been responding positively to my emails. So in addition to the others, this is the current schedule of interviews that has been set up:
- Thursday, 24th Jan, at 3.00pm – Anglican Chaplain
- Friday, 25th Jan, at 2:00pm – Accommodation Office
- Sunday, 27th Jan, after service – Pentecostal Leadership Team member
- Monday, 28th Jan, at 1.00pm – President of Kent Union
- Monday, 28th Jan, at 3.00pm – Quaker Chaplain
- Tuesday, 29th Jan, at 1.00pm – Student Activities Sabbatical
- Tuesday, 29th Jan, at 3.00pm – Buddhist Chaplain
The Muslim Chaplain asked me to call and set up a meeting, so that will be confirmed later today hopefully.
I am still waiting for responses from the Methodist, Catholic and Jewish chaplains; the Accommodation Office; the Registry; and the International Office.
We got some positive responses from the Religious leaders this evening:
- The Anglican Chaplain has agreed to meet us this Thursday, 24th Jan, at 3.00pm.
- The Quaker Chaplain has agreed to meet us next Monday, 28th Jan, at 3.00pm.
Now we need to find some appropriate questions for them.
