Week 2

Monday 22 April
Today I created an Instagram Page for GSP as this is an extremely popular and new way of promotion. We chose Instagram over Pinterest and Flickr because this doesn't let the public save the photos and use them as their own, so its a great copyright tool.

Here is an image of what GSP's Instagram page looks like:

After this I then was asked to make up 20 boxes of their promotional packs for a big meeting with some Russians the next day. These promotional packs are filled with A5 sized postcards with photos of previous events on, and on the back is a small blurb about the event and some more photos. These enable clients to have a small insight into the previous events GSP have done.

Tuesday 23 April 

Today I helped assemble boxes for an event that night at one of GSPs newest venues The Club House. It was their launch night of this venue. We had to make 200 cardboard boxes full of brownies and business cards of companies attending the event. 

After that I helped set up the board room for the meeting where we had to clear the tables of all the computers and stationary so it was completely clear. We laid out bottles of water and bowls of crisps. Then put the creds of the recent event on the TV in the background. 

Here is a photo of how the room looked when it was all finished: 

The rest of the afternoon i carried on editing the rest of the Instagram photos here are some examples of photos I've edited:

These photos were from two different weddings in Cannes

Wednesday 24 April
Today was a very busy day before the TLC Launch at Sketch tomorrow night. I had to make a production box for the event, which is a box full of stationary and everything you would need for an event such as duck tape, clipboards, pens, staples and then extensions leads and safety hats.

This is quite a tiring and boring task as you have to pack it all into a tight box and make sure every things there, and its done at the back of the office which is a small compact space and you have to route through cupboards to find it all so its not a very glamorous job.

In the afternoon I had to pack up all the boxes for the event tomorrow which included huge boxes of sweets and dress up outfits for the Photo Booth. This was also a rather dull job as I just packed boxes all afternoon but it had to be done.

Thursday 25 April - EVENT AT SKETCH
After a lot of stress and pressure the big day of the launch for the TV channel 'TLC' was here! TLC is an american channel that has been brought over to England for the first time and GSP got the honour of organising the launch party at the restaurant 'Sketch' in the West End London.

Here is the promotion video that was shown on the night of the event, this will help you to get an idea about the channel, if you don't already know what it is.

Today was the longest day Ive had to work. I was asked to be at Sketch by 9:30 to help the girls who has organised this event set up. There wasn't masses to do on the day but it was still tough work as I was on my feet the whole time. My first task was to set up all the radios for the staff that night, there were 25 radios to arrange which included charging them, attaching all the ear pieces and making sure they all worked.

Next I was asked to help fill up the jars with the sweets for the 'sweetie parlour' in the back room. This was a fun task as we got to see from start to finish what the jars and room looked like, we also got to sneakily eat some of the sweets as we went a long.

Here is a photo of what the sweets looked like once they were filled in the jars:

After this I was asked to blow up the props for the fancy dress Photo Booth. These included two pigs and an exercise ball. We were given a plastic pump that wasn't very powerful so this took a while to pump up. Unfortunately we had a problem with the pumping up the pigs so these had to be blown up by hand by one of our GSP team. 

Next another intern and myself were asked to set up the sweetie parlour and place all the jars on the round table in the room. This was an enjoyable task as we got to play around with the set up until it looked best to us. There was also three massive cakes that said 'TLC' that were going to be placed in the middle of the jars of sweets. This room was also going to have the 'Cake Boss' in there showing the guests how he makes his cakes and letting them ice their own cupcakes. This was a man who had a programme on the TLC channel. 

This is how the 'sweetie parlour' looked when it was all finished 

As one of the programmes on this channel had a pig for a pet, the whole event was pig themed. There was a huge blow up pig that was hanging from the ceiling in the main room, and they also had micro pigs in the front room for people to hold

Here is some photos of the pigs:

Here you can see the pig handing from the ceiling and me holding a micro pig at the event.

The doors for the event opened at 7pm and was heaving with celebrities from Holly Valance, Lisa Snowden and Jodie Marsh. I got the opportunity to meet the lovely Holly Valance and Lisa Snowden who were all very sweet and easy to talk to. 

Holly Valance

Lisa Snowden

The launch was sponsored by SuperDrug, so they brought in a superdrug beauty parlour which was held upstairs in the Libary room at Sketch. This was where guests could get manicure, massages and also have eyelashes put on, it was a real girlie room where women spent a lot of their time that night.

Here is a sign made for the eventThis was the beauty parlour

My job on the night was to make sure everything ran smoothly and all the staff that weren't from GSP had all they needed and if not I could help them get it.

Here are some more photos from the event that night:

Today was a lot of fun but extremely tiring, I learnt a lot about how an event works and all the planning and preparation that goes into it. I got to experience first hand a top event in London which is something I have always wanted to do. It was hard work standing on your feet for 16 hours straight but it was worth pain being at the event. My favourite part was the sweetie parlour and it looked amazing with all the bright coloured sweets in the jars. The event got great feedback from the guests and the public and hopefully the show will do well in the UK. 

Click this link to watch the video from the launch - TLC Launch Party Video

Friday 26 April

Today was a more relaxed day as it was the day after the event and everyone was knackered from the night before. I was asked to sort out the logos for the next event which is called 'NABS' this is a charity that is backed by the biggest names in advertising such as Google, Facebook, Mediacon etc. This meant that I needed to create a powerpoint with all the relevant logos and in all the right sections. 

This was an interesting task as it meant I got to see all the important companies attending this event and I was getting involved with this event coming up, so got to see it all developing.