WHO AM I? WHAT DO I DO?
- My name is Francisco and my role of the group is the publicist.
- The publicist has a lot of different tasks per day, like updating or social media accounts, like Instagram or Facebook.
- I thought that having a social media account was a great idea because we gain recognition for our project, and we also give a lot of great publicity to the people and stores that have helped us out throughout this project, so the social media pages are helping us both in equal ways.
- Something else that I am in charge for as the publicist is making a video for our group and what that video will have is all the names of the group members, what their roles are, and what they would like to have accomplished by the end of this project, at the beginning we had a couple of ideas of what the video should be like, but in the end we are just going to make it a funny, yet very professional video for our audience.
- The first job that I had as a publicist was to look for stores that would be willing to donate stuff to our project so we could have different materials throughout all of our research.
- I basically started by emailing a lot of different stores but then I started noticing that a lot of the stores that I was emailing were too much of a big industry so they would not have been interested in donating anything to us so I tried to look for more low profiled stores that would be willing to donate stuff to us for the exchange of more publicity.
- I thought that publicity would be the greatest way to pay these stores back because you have to start somewhere, and by gaining some publicity anywhere, it will eventually catch on to other places, that’s probably how other great stores started their business so that could be a head start for them. Before emailing these stores I talked to Mr. Botterman just so I can be sure that I was sending a good enough email in order to get them to like my idea.
- Being publicist is a great job but you have to be on point in order to have the responsibility of this job, which I am still working on to this day, that is basically the job of the publicist.