This is it. Week 4 and things are just humming along. Jed is up to his hips in budget fun, we are thinking about application totals and orientations that start next week, and I had quiche for lunch today… OK there are more exciting things to report about this week then just that, so here it goes!
Back to the Class
Thanks to CAB coordinator – Anthony Kalamut for inviting me to attend his 2nd semester Creative Advertising class. This very bright, question-asking group hammered out some very cool concepts around marketing campaigns. I learned that ROI, may stand for return on investment in the business sense, but in advertising it is almost the “caramilk secret” in the design of a campaign – Relevance, Originality, and remaining Interesting. The highlight for me was seeing a glimmer of one of my teaching heroes channeled in Anthony’s incredible command of the class – Its like I had a chance to go back in time, and take part in a Big John Small class! Thanks Anthony I had a blast!
Lunchtime fun!
Thanks to JoAnn Purcell, we had some visual stimulation during one of the afternoon lunch club gatherings, where we screened – Skylight (originally called “Penguin”). Written and directed by former Animation Arts instructor, Dave Bass. The creative team included the DAN coordinator Sean Craig, instructor Rob Silvestri and a large group of gradated students over the past 5 or 6 years, working only on Sundays! They received Bravo Fact Funding and as a result you can see it on Bravo or I also have a DVD to share. Dave is also shopping around the festival market, so sky’s the limit for skylight!
On the tube!
Our very own James Cullingham was a guest on TVO’s “The Agenda” with Steve Paikin on Thursday night. Other guests included Mary Ormsby from The Star, Bruce Dowbiggin from Calgary Herald and former Leaf, Bob McGill talking about fighting in the NHL. From all reports, it was a great show.
Student Success
4th semester JBC students Daniel Alcinii and Matthew Kang have been selected for highly sought after Internships at CBC Radio beginning in May and as spring approaches a few more of our Journalism students may be selected by CBC TV. This makes 4-5 years running that our students have been selected for this competitive Internship that in the past was only awarded to students from Ryerson, Carleton and Western.
David Stein, almost CAB Graduate was a member of the winning team that entered a contest put on by the Virgin group of company’s to design an advertising campaign for V-Fest concerts; one of Richard Branson’s charity efforts aimed at homeless youth. The team was to be made up of 8 members, but due to bad weather, only 3 members showed up so congratulations to Daniela Sanz, Vijay Setlur and Seneca student David Stein.
Application numbers
Although we are still a little early in the crunch to look at our application numbers for the upcoming 2 semesters, generally speaking we are at the same or MORE then this same time period last year, and that is a GOOD thing. With many orientation stating next week, I want to extend an offer to help anyone who needs it with anything related to applications / offers. If there is anything I can do to help you get your offers out as soon as we are able to, I would be happy to help.
Coordinators meeting next week
The agenda is coming together nicely for the program coordinator’s meeting next week… If you have something you would like us to discuss, please forward it on to your coordinator or myself.
In closing
I was looking for a story from my home life this week to share as a fun way to end my confessions this week, but I am coming up blank… I asked my wife if she could think of anything that happened significant this week, and all she could come up with was her beautiful new haircut (it is very nice) but I said no… there has to be something that I can pull from week 4 from around the world that would have relevance… then it came to me.
My Answer to ALL I do not know – Google!
I type in “funny quote” and select the first webpage (http://www.coolfunnyquotes.com/). And find my closing thought for week 4!
“It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.”
Week 5 arrives in 64 hours!
Thanks! 4 down and 10 to go.
Jim