Annotation #3 & Supporting Evidence
Objective: Building awareness of the festival.
-Activities/Resources:
- Outside of media publicity, really connecting with the Rhode Island state and opening our doors to a great evening at the movies
- Exposing artistic films & their original film makers
- Utilizing our social media outlets to spread the work to our younger demographics (i.e. Facebook & Twitter accounts)
-Evidence:
- Links to the companies Facebook & Twitter accounts
- Provide images of local letters or campaigns to alert the Rhode Island area about our festivals
My third and final professional objective when beginning my employment with The Rhode Island International Film Festival was to build awareness of the companies annual summer festival through the course of my employment. There were many components to building this event, since it is a weeklong affair where a great amount work needed & still needs to be put in:
· Confirming the multiple screening locations
· Figuring out how and where guests will park
· Will public transportation be needed
· Knowing if there will be a valet needed upon each site or not
· Will the local police need to be contacted to notify them of any potential parking hazards since so many people attend the individual festival events
· How and where will the filmmakers from all across the US & world be housed
· Will there be any compensation returned to filmmakers
…and many more. The first step I took to helping plan out this summers 15th annual summer film festival was to go through the past 5 years programs and noting all of the submission deadlines for the filmmakers, list any prior events that occur before the summer festival, list the actual events that WILL occur DURING the summer festival, and finally to list all of the venues in which screening events take place. Going through the programs to find all of these details were not the easiest tasks, seeing as how there were so many locations and various listings. Another problem that came about was seeing if any of these venues were still available, since everything was pushed back a few months due to the office being in the process of moving to another floor. Through it all, lists were composed and the little issues that at first seemed troublesome for the events quickly disappeared after the entire staff became organized and started being proactive and contacting whoever needed to be contacted.
As I mentioned in Annotation #2, I was not in charge of running the RIIFF’s social media sites (i.e. Twitter and LinkedIn accounts). However, I would tweet about the company and festival through my personal twitter account to spread word to my friends and followers!
Evidence:
*[An example of my Venue Notes for RIIFF]
15th Annual Summer Film Festival
Series of Events (rough sketch)
(T) August 7th-(Sun)12th
Submission Deadlines:
-May 15th 2012-> Regular
-June 1st 2012-> Late
-June 15th 2012-> Extended
Prior Events:
-Thursday (3rd of each month)-> Third Thursday Encore Film Series; Jamestown, 7pm [$10]
-Roving Eye (April 22nd, 23rd, 24th – Sunday, Monday, Tuesday); Roger Williams University
-Kids Eye (July 9th-13th)
Festival Events:
-Opening Night: Screening & Reception
· Presidents Reception
· Post Screening Reception
-Coffee Talk
-Networking Parties
-Brunch & Awards Ceremony
Venue Locations: (used in the past, need confirmation if being re-used)
*2011:
-Barrington Public Library – Barrington, RI
-Bell Street Chapel Theatre – Providence, RI
-Jamestown Arts Center – Jamestown, RI
-Metcalf Auditorium – Providence, RI
-Movies on the Block – Providence, RI
-Paff Theatre (URI, Feinstein Campus) – Providence, RI
-Providence Chamber of Commerce Theatre – Providence, RI
-Providence Public Library – Providence, RI
-Roots Café – Providence, RI
-The Vets – Providence, RI
*2010:
-Barrington Public Library – Barrington, RI
-Bazarsky Hall (Salve Regina) – Newport, RI
-Bell Street Chapel Theatre – Providence, RI
-Brown/RISD Hillel – Providence, RI
-Opera House Theatre – Newport, RI
-Paff Theatre – Providence, RI
-Providence Chamber of Commerce Theatre – Providence, RI
-Providence JCC – Providence, RI
-Providence Place Showcase Cinema – Providence, RI
-Providence Public Library – Providence, RI
-The Vets – Providence, RI
*2009:
-Bell Street Chapel – Providence, RI
-Brown/RISD Hillel – Providence, RI
-Cable Car Cinema – Providence, RI
-Cinematheque at the Columbus Theatre – Providence, RI
-Columbus Theatre Arts Centre – Providence, RI
-Local 121 – Providence, RI
-URI (Feinstein Campus) – Providence, RI
-Providence Public Library – Providence, RI
-Biltmore Hotel – Providence, RI
-PPAC – Providence, RI
-Providence Place Cinemas 16 – Providence, RI
-RISD Museum – Providence, RI
*2008:
-The Renaissance Hotel – Providence, RI
-Bell Street Chapel – Providence, RI
-Biltmore Hotel – Providence, RI
-PPAC – Providence, RI
-Brown/RISD Hillel – Providence, RI
-Cable Car Theatre – Providence, RI
-Columbus Theatre Arts Center – Providence, RI
-Andrews Theatre – Providence, RI
-Providence Public Library – Providence, RI
-Rhode Island Film Forum - ?
-Providence Place Cinemas 16 – Providence, RI
To Keep In Mind: (Providence Restaurant Week)
-Occurring-> Wednesday, Friday, Saturday (July 8th-21st); won’t want to contact during that time
*[Links to RIIFF's Facebook & Twitter Accounts]
-Twitter:https://twitter.com/#!/RIFIlmFest
-Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/RIFilmFest/
