{"id":1528,"date":"2010-03-17T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2019-10-07T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:20:51","slug":"promotion-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/promotion-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Promotion: 1 – Imperial College"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In one way or another, ever since we’ve had the use of video as a medium we have used it to promote things. You will have already seen in other posts the promotion of specific research projects or research groups and so on. But we’re going to start another series that shows how we’ve tried to promote the college as a whole. I’ll also mention that we’ll see how individual departments have tried this too, examples being: Chemistry, Civil Engineering and the Management School (now Business School), so watch out for those blog entries coming sometime soon.<\/p>\n

To coincide with the 1985 centenary of the City and Guilds College<\/a> an impressive exhibition was put on in the Junior Common Room in the Sherfield Building. Although this was primarily research work, schools were invited and special lectures and tours were held, Therefore, very large numbers of school children were going to visit the college\u00a0 and there was, of course, huge possibilities for student recruitment. So, two promotional videos were (initially) commissioned to promote the college to school children and to potential postgraduates. This was also the first time that moving aerial footage was taken of both the South Kensington and Silwood campuses. The only unfortunate thing was that the footage was shot in January and we’d just had a downfall of snow, so the campuses don’t look too inviting!<\/p>\n