Department of Commerce (Mass Media) - Activities & Events in 2015-16

Activities & Events conducted in year 2015-16

Events/Days/Activities

The year began with a warm welcome to the fresh batch of students. The Celebration of the fresher’s party – ‘Flamboyance’ was themed as ‘House Party’ with the seniors putting forth beautiful performances and showcasing their collective talents.
‘Iftaar' and ‘Halloween’ parties were organised in the months July and October respectively, to sensitize the students towards different cultures and religion.
The batch of 2016, bid a goodbye to the year in their very own style of Nazrana-16 on 20th February. The theme ‘Italian Mafia’ ensured power packed performances.

Industrial Visits

An Industrial Visit for the third year BMM students was organized in the month of March, 2016. Students visited Jabalpur, Bandhavgarh and Panchmarhi in Madhya Pradesh. They interacted with Granite workers in Bhedaghat. They also attended the annual winter mela in Panchmarhi which displays the confluence of various tribal cultures.
The Second Year students visited Malvan-Tarkarli to catch the sight of the adventures of the Sea through scuba diving and fish markets.

Best Practices

Taskmaster - First year BMM students are given a set of activities every week. The objective is to make them exposed to lot of quality media content which helps them in excelling their creativity and temperament. The learners are given tasks such as watching a particular film or TV series, interviewing someone, compose or create some media content, field observation and everything that has feasibility for an undergraduate student. In this Practice, learners are given5-6 tasks every week. The students are required to maintain the tasks in a notebook. For every film or documentary, writing a review is mandatory and in the same manner for every live experience or observation, an analysis has to be written by the students.

Activity based learning

• The students are made to organize Mock Press Conferences in the class as a PRO.
  
• The students are given ‘Reporting’ Assignments, where they had to go in field as a Reporter to capture the real news.
  
• Photography, Film Making, Ad Making, Radio Jockeying assignments.
  
• Participation in all the College and Inter- College Events.