The group presented on their coverage of a Palestinian boycott of Marks & Spencer organized by the Revolutionary Communist Group. They researched the event and organization beforehand. At the event, they live-blogged and interviewed members of the Revolutionary Communist Group, though were unable to interview Marks & Spencer employees. Back from the event, they created a website to share their coverage, though encountered some difficulties uploading content. They reflected on what went well, such as dividing roles and tasks, and areas for improvement like meeting more as a group.

1. Group Presentation
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By Michael, Maggie and Kotryna

2. Event and why
 We chose the Palestinian boycott of Marks and Spencer by the
Revolutionary Communist Group because its interesting and the
conflict between Israel and Palestine is current, with the bombings
of Gazza just months ago.

3. When
 6-8pm on Oxford Street, on the first Thursday of every month.
 The boycott we reported on the 6th of November.

4. Beforehand
 We looked at the RCG`s websites, and looked at pictures and
videos of other protests and boycotts that the organisation had
taken part of. We also looked up the organisation on Facebook
and Twitter.

5. The plan
 We planned to turn up early, and leave late. We also
planned who was going to use which social media, and
the tools we were going to use. Maggie and Kotryna
used their phones, and Michael used an iPad borrowed
from the university. Michael used Audioboom, thiinglink
and Flickr, Maggie used Vine and Audioboom, and
Kotryna used Twitter and Instagram.

6. What did you do first when
you got to the event?
 When we first got to the event, we struggled with finding the
people from the RCG, but we quickly found members from
the two other teams. After that, members of the RCG started
showing up, and they made a stand with a huge banner
outside the M&S store

7. Organising the website
 Kotryna was the social media editor, Michael was the web
editor, and Maggie was the research editor
 Michael and Maggie focused on interviews when they used
Audiobooms, and by using Instagram, Vine and Flickr, we could
easily capture special moments. Kotryna actively used Twitter
and Instagram throughout the event. It worked alright, but we
had some problems by uploading the material, and by tools
easily losing charge, which was frustrating.

8. Interviews
 The members of RCG were easy to identify, as they happily wanted to
talk to us, and sometimes took breaks to shout things such as “from the
river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and calling M&S terrorists. We
tried to speak to the manager at M&S, but we were quickly turned
down in our attempt on interviewing him.
 We interviewed almost every member of the Revolutionary
Communist Group, those we didn’t interview said that they didn’t
want to be. We made a few attempts of interviewing employees at
M&S, but neither of them wanted to comment on the boycott. It felt
unnatural to interview any of the people passing by, since most of them
looked like they were in a rush, and seemed careless towards the
boycott. We definitely got RCG`s perspective on the case; they were
pretty much the only ones that wanted to talk to us, and they gave us
their newspaper, and pins that they encouraged us to wear. But with
only the perspective of RCG, we recognise our webpage and reporting
of the event, may be biased.

9. Website design
 We created 5 pages on our website that are easy to navigate
via links at the top of each page. They include: Home,
About the event background info, live blog and About us.
We learnt what pages to include through trial and error and
thought that these display our content in the most coherent
way.
 Kotryna and Michael added photos to the gallery on the
Home page and Michael added the intro.
 The About the event page was completed by Michael, with
info, a map and a thinglink.
 The background info age was completed by Maggie with
info, and a youtube video.
 We all added content to the live blog and about us pages.

10. Reflection
What we did well:
 Uploading and editing content on Weebly
 Thinking about what content should be on what
page
 Allocation of roles.

11. Reflection
Difficulties faced:
 Uploading some content, especially on the day, with wi-fi
trouble and battery trouble
 Organisation of the group
 What to improve:
 Meeting as a group more
 Communication and co-operation

12. Do you think this
assignment went
according to plan ?
Yes – the assignment went by the plan.
Every member of the group managed to attend the
event, actively participate and later on complete the
assignment as a team.
Each of us had different roles and tasks in this project
witch where completed great and with a fine team
spirit !

13. 3 things that worked
well in the assignment:
 We chose interesting and not too difficult event to cover
 Every team member had to use different platforms and
deliver different part of the work to the assignment, that
way each of us could focus on our work and afterwards
combine all the material to one team project
 Ability to work as a team, doing some work at home
individually, as well as completing some tasks in the
University library

14. 3 things we have learned :
 How to work as a team
 How to live report an event
 How to create a website based on the event, using
different multimedia tools and platforms

15. Skills we need to improve:
 How to use multimedia tools and platforms
more efficient
 How to collect valuable information and get
good interviews
 How to improve the structure of the website
 How to work better as a team