“Aaaaa – we got in! Our promotional movie was assigned to a huge contest of the Danone company!” This is the only topic lately discussed in AEGEE-Warszawa. How did we manage it and how can YOU help us win?
Each antenna has its own mission. AEGEE-Warszawa also has one. Our mission consists of 4 elements: IDEA, PEOPLE, ACTION, SATISFACTION. This sounds a little bit theoretical, doesn’t it? For me too. Until I started my own project – making a promotional movie of AEGEE-Warszawa.
Everything started with one message from Tomek, my friend from the AEGEE-Warszawa PR group: “Would you like to coordinate this film with me?”, he wrote. I just looked at the pile of books and notes to study and answered without thinking: “Why not!” And that’s how we started to carry out the mission of AEGEE-Warszawa in practice.
Together with the whole PR-group we decided to fulfill the first point of our mission completely. Our Motto “Share your passion with people ready for action” became the theme for our movie. We all know that AEGEE-Warszawa is an organization which gathers people from different universities, various faculties, with opposite views and experience, but first of all people having incredible passions. Passions, which we can share together to inspire ourselves. We just needed to show this in our movie.
After writing a script, discussing the topic and endless meetings about the movie, we started to carry out the second point: PEOPLE. During a few months we gathered 23 incredible people and one amazing cameraman, editor and visionary (all rolled into one). We connected these people in the third point of our mission – ACTION.
Of course, during such a project problems are inevitable. Fate put obstacles in our way, like various diseases, rain during outside scenes, or tenacious university’s authorities, who didn’t want us to shoot a movie. Luckily we fought our way out of these problems thanks to the fast reaction of AEGEE members and endless replacements.
Common work took us to the last point of the mission of AEGEE-Warszawa: huge SATISFACTION. Thanks to all the involved AEGEE members we managed to bring this movie to an end. The premiere took place on the 10th of October. It was a real Oscar night for us. All dressed up with awards for play (even real “gold” Oscars!), we drank Russian Champagne in honour of our long work.
But we didn’t rest on laurels. One of us found a competition for students’ organizations, which was organized Danone. The prize amounts 3000 zł (about 800 euro)! We decided to try. A few nights later (spent on converting the movie) we sent the video and… our movie was assigned to this contest. Now we need YOUR help!
To get into the final we need votes of web surfers. The only thing you need to do is:
1. Follow the attached link to the site of the contest
2. Click “Like” on the Danone (if you didn’t do it before)
3. Click the red button under the player [ Zagłosuj! ]
Only eight movies will be considered to get a prize. For voting you have time only to 6th December.
We are the only one antenna from Poland, which was assigned to this contest. Now we can show that we are also a tight team. We can connect all together and use the AEGEE Spirit to help us win.
For me these last months were incredible. As a coordinator of this project I put a lot of effort in this. I’ve spent a lot of time for this movie, I did so many different things for it, but I managed to do this. For me this last point of our mission, satisfaction, has already been fulfilled, but I must remember that I worked in a team of amazing people and this award is also for them.
On behalf of the members of AEGEE-Warszawa I thank you for your votes in advance.
-IDEA – Share your passion with the others!
-PEOPLE – Become a member of team!
-ACTION – Work together!
Keep your AEGEE Spirit!
Written by Joanna Bogdanowicz, AEGEE-Warszawa
Photos taken by Joanna Bogdanowicz & Tomasz Sznajder, AEGEE-Warszawa