Final Week at GSP

Tuesday 7 May - Friday 10 May

This week was a very stressful week at GSP as it was the week of the NABS Event which is one of the biggest events they do, as well as it being a short week due to bank holiday.

There was a huge amount of preparation to be done as the event held 1000 people in a tent so there was a lot of organising to go into this event.

There was a number of tasks I was asked to do this week but one of the main things was the Presentation of the Logos that would be projected round the room. This was a quite stressful task as everything had to be perfect and there was no room for mistakes. These logos had to go onto the new NABS 2013 background that had been designed for the event.

Here is an example of one of the slides on the on the Powerpoint, where you can see the background for the powerpoint and how it has to all be laid out. The theme this year is The Future, as its their 100th anniversary year of NABS Charity. This is why everything had to look futuristic and as though we were in the future.

I also had to put all the slides in their categories on a spreadsheet, this was a rather time consuming task as it took a while to insert all the necessary information in the document. This also became rather boring as I kept having to change ones around as the clients emailed me with changes.

Here is what the spreadsheet looked like once i was finished with it.

Apart from this my other tasks this week were packing up another production box full of all the necessary stationary need for the event. I also had to help pack the boxes with all the table centres and name plates made. Plus all the costumes for the hosts and hostesses

The Event - NABS 2013

On the Thursday of this week it was the big day of the event for NABS, after months of planning an preparation the day was finally here. This time I didn't have to be on site till 4:30 as everything was covered by the production company on site. When I arrived at Battersea Park I was told immediately to put on a radio because the site was so big and this was the only way to stay in contact.

My job for this event was to help the host and hostesses with their jobs throughout the night, and also to make sure all the acts that were performing had everything they needed. The night was hugely stressful for everyone as there was always something to do and a lot of things went wrong. 

There were loads of different acts throughout the night which were, jugglers, girls on stilts, tv heads -  which were men in outfits with screens of the powerpoint i made playing on the tv that was on their helmet, feeding the fish - which was a light show, then the main act which was magnetic men who were brought in by one of the sponsors spotify. 

There was also an auction going on at the event and also a silent auction with lots of amazing prizes to be won. They also had mail online create an app which had a game especially for this event. It was a quiz and then also had videos and other fun inventions to do with the event. 

The event went extremely well considering there was a lot of problems with the iPads and the mail online app, however the guests had a wonderful evening and there was lots of positive feedback given to GSP.

Here are some photos from the event:

This was a more stressful event and there was a lot more to do so was a lot more pressure unlike the last one. I enjoyed myself a lot and learnt so many new skills and new interesting information that I will use in the future. However this type of corporate charity event is not a category i enjoyed as much as its a lot more hard work then one might think and also a lot stricter with what I was allowed to do.