Press Release meeting

Over the past couple of weeks myself, Liam and Glen have been emailing the Sussex Downs College business people to organise a meeting about sending out a press release for our student show. A press release is an official statement issued to newspapers giving on a particular matter, because we're all on the social media team we have set the ourselves the task of getting the word about the show out into the general public.

Today we met up with Zara Baker who is part of the business development team for Sussex Downs. Myself, Glen and Liam attended the meeting we discussed a range of things such as, what the show is about and what type of work we're going to be showing. We also told her what types of people we would like to attend to which we said anyone can come but we really want people in the media industry to attend. Zara also mentioned about getting flyers to which we could create or they could, she also mentioned a lot of newspapers which they would try and get the word out in.

We spoke about social media, she asked for the Twitter and Facebook page, she told us they would follow and would also tweet about the event through their sussex downs account.

We spoke about getting a photographer to the event so they could send out a press realise after the show about how it went.

Zara wants us to email her some quotes from students to what we think of the show, what we think of the course, I will send about 5 quotes from a mix of 3rd year and 2nd year. She also wants us to email her a list of contacts of who we would like to attend.

I think the meeting went really well and I am pleased with how much they have to offer, Zara was really nice and helpful, she seem's really involved and eager to help.