The group project about the digital advertising industry.

The link to the project:

https://wp.coventry.domains/advertising/

The beginning

It all started when our lecturer formed groups according to which media industries students were most interested in. In my opinion, this was a really good idea because everyone wants to find out more about the industries, they are the most interested in. 

The communication with my group started very well, we all got into work really fast and divided tasks and responsibilities for each other. From this I could say that we are all thrilled to work in this group project and do it as well as we can.

My task in this project is to interview a person from the Advertising industry. Luckily, I already found one! So now I have to arrange a meeting and get prepared for it. 

How it is going

I found a person to interview from my networking. He is Ivan Carvalho, who works as a media buyer. So, I contacted him, asking if he could help me and participate in the interview about his job, and he kindly agreed.

Because Ivan is not from the United Kingdom, we arranged the meeting through zoom. I prepared questions about his job, skills, responsibilities, failures and challenges at work. Making the questions were not that easy as I thought. I sent the questions to Ivan and explained the additional information about the interview, like where I will upload our conversation or if the person would agree to be a guest speaker in the following semester. When everything was clear, we made the zoom call.

In my opinion, it went pretty well. It was challenging that neither my guest nor I had ever done the interview, so it was difficult to express ourselves. So, what I would do a bit different the next time is that I would read a bit more about the profession of the quest because I didn’t know that much.

The finish line

To finish our project, we had to put everything on a platform. For that, we chose the Coventry Domain site because most of us already knew how to use it. Also, it is a platform that can be accessible for everyone, and visitors can leave comments. However, even though we were not new to working with that platform, it was not as easy as it looked to put all the information together. It was challenging to come up with ideas for naming the site, logo and layouts. Ultimately, we generated our ideas till we all agreed.

Talking about working in the group, we communicated very well. The first time we met as a group, we started generating our ideas and got straight to work. Also, we helped and advised each other. The only issue we had, was that it was more complicated to communicate with a remote person, usually due to connection problems.

Nonetheless, it was a great experience to interview and hear about the job and the advertising industry from the person who works there. Also, the group project itself was very useful to know more about the industry I am interested in.