Festival — notes
As part of my #weeknotechallenge I have decided to challenge myself to doing a different style of weeknotes every week.
Todays is weeknote #35
The other weeknotes in the challenge are linked below:
‘Traditional’ Weeknotes , Gif-Notes , Sketch-Notes, Shanty-Notes, Week-quotes, Animal Crossing — Notes , Poster — Notes, Haiku — notes, Achievement — notes, Hanami — notes, Meme — notes, Retro — notes, Comic — notes, Story — notes, Slang — notes, Tweet — notes, Blog — notes, Hansai — notes,Show & Tell — notes, Taskmaster — notes, Lyrical — notes, Rap — notes, Wellbeing — notes,Football — notes, Superhero — notes,Hot or Not — notes, Olympic — notes, Lesson — notes,Hamilton — notes,Poké — notes,Limerick — notes,Lil’ — notes,Emoji — notes,Bin it off — notes
Shock. Horror. This is what i am going to be talking about today…
Where do i begin with this one! This festival is the reason i missed the last weeknotes so i thought i would jot down some initial thoughts to get them out of my brain. We are going to be doing some more ‘official’ wrap up bits so i won’t go into loads of detail as i don’t wanna spoil those.
The idea
‘there was an idea…’
The idea for the festival this year was:
to run a full week of hybrid events across Dorset, showing off our beautiful county through sessions which are available both physically and virtually. As always, we will be breaking new ground: a full-fledged hybrid experience is a new concept. And we will have the same fabulous array of speakers and topics that we introduced you to last year.
Doing things differently, being creative and breaking the mould are things i strive towards. You need to be able to take risks and then learn from them. That’s what we did with last year’s festival and then we learnt from them and built upon it this year.
The week
The week was ran by an incredible team of people with lots of different roles and skills all coming together with the ambition to do something differently/ My role was Directing and inspiring the look and feel of the festival through videos, graphics, and the livestream itself. This involved dealing with Tech issues, supporting speakers and scripts, and increasingly… avoiding rain.
One thing that became clear each day is until i could mentally debrief and watch the livestream back i had no idea if it all went to plan. It was so draining that you couldn’t really focus on what was happening only start to think of the next domino that needs to be in place.
Thankfully having watched all the sessions back i can say that it all went to plan and came out great.
Festival Family
The whole week was quite surreal in many ways, after years of being behind a laptop and doing work mainly at home having to wake up early in the morning to road trip to an event and then working till late and travelling back again. And with all the same people.
Throughout the week i didn’t really have time to speak with other friends or family so we became a sorta festival family. It’s going to be a weird transition going back to working from home and hopefully not mentally isolating but as an introvert i did need to refill my ‘social battery’ over the weekend as well as my physical ‘omg i am so exhausted’ one.
If you want to check out what we achieved or catchup on a session you missed they are all on the Digital Dorset YouTube channel:
Whats next
Other than lots of sleeping and getting back to work to some of the other great Digital work i have going on. Maybe you’ll find out in next week’s notes?
There is going to be some work going on behind the scenes about how we measure success and also showcase to others how we ran the festival and what lessons we learnt, feedback gathered etc. so keep a look out for that!
Oh, and there’s always futurefest22, It got mentioned a few times by
so we cant escape it now! Surprise surprise & i have some ideas but I’m tired just thinking about it, give me at least 6 months…Sam out.
