Deeparaagam: 

1)      Overall, I am so proud of the members that were directly and indirectly involved in making the virtual Deeparaagam show a big hit with over 500 views! So, Good Job to Marsiling IAEC! 

2)      I honestly feel we overestimated the program flow when we packed all the shooting in one day thus, in future, we shall always have a contingency plan. This way when any of the shoot delays, such as late arrival of guests for their shoot, we can postpone to day 2. 

3)      Thanks to Manisha for giving me an opportunity to showcase my skills in make up for the singers, dancers, and emcee. As well as giving my deco business a chance to do an event for our committee. I have taken note of the feedback and as my business grow into greater heights I promise to present better outcomes. 

4)     I was attached to Mdm Buvanes during the day of the shoot and i must agree that it was not an easy job to be a organising chairman. However, with the amount of stress and hard work i would like to congratulate Mdm Buvanes for managing to pull together an awesome show. My friends and families were watching it and they all gave positive feedbacks.   

Deepavali Anbalippu: 

1)      My friend, my sisters and I were helping out Mr Anish and Mr Aaron in packing some items for the distribution packages before we went up to start on the deco. During the packing there was good communication between us, and we managed to pack the items accordingly with the extras kept aside. 

2)      However after we did our deco for the shoot in the auditorium, we came back down to find members packing more items and thus I asked my friend and sisters to lend a helping hand again, however my sisters and friend got offended with the talks and inappropriate behaviour with some members in the hall at that point of time and I was not happy about it neither were my friend nor parents. Which made it hard for me to ask my parents to allow my sisters to help out in food distribution the following Sunday.

3)      I would like to state clearly that whether to other members or not it is important that we behave professionally when we represent our committee as we want to set as good role models to the younger generations.

4)      We are always looking for more youths to join our course, however, if our existing members do not portray professionalism, we cannot expect such.

5)      We are a family, and it is important we maintain respect for the older AND younger members and volunteers.

6)      With regards to the situation regarding the short of some food for the packing, let us refrain from giving out any extras until the event is over.

Deeparaagam 2020 

1.       As the Organising Chairman for this 1^st time online event, I would like to thank each and every one of the IAEC members and the PA staff who were involved. 

2.       There was a lot of ground work that I had to do to kick start this event.  Thanks to Mdm Manisha for all the assistance and guidance. 

3.       My vision of show casing an entertainment and a meaningful event to the viewers came true. 

4.       There are about 751 views as I am doing this feedback and that is a huge hit for this effort, time and budget that we had put in. 

5.       The Host, Anand and the Videography, PixelFrames went over and above to make our event a success.  

6.       PixelFrames  had shoot about 4 extra hours for us and also helped us to upload it as a live feed on the Marsiling Home Facebook page.  Thanks to Vanan. 

7.       The Residents were very sporty and co-operative in spite of waiting for very long hours in spite of the rain for their filming. 

8.       Singers recording and input was very good and the way some of the pictures inserted with two of the songs went very well and well done. 

9.       The four women’s entrepreneur’s segment had a good response.  

10.   Really thankful for the last minute acceptance from Sweet and Sassy Bakes to do the cooking and home segment.

Improve 

11.   In spite of having a Plan B it was also over ridden due to the unforeseen weather which happen to distort the whole filming plan. The Crew told us that even the Plan B cannot happen as the rain was very heavy and the sound will quality will be distorted.

12.   The delay in the filming, changes in the shooting locations and backing off of people at a very last minute added to a lot of pressure and it also lead to cancelling 1 of the shoot on that day. 

13.   Need to be more aware of extra filming time in future due to retakes. 

14.   Check if make-up artist and transport is needed if we are going to have outdoor filming in future. 

15.   Move all outdoor filming to indoor in case of raining weather in future. 

16.   To have extra budget for such online event in case of last minute budgets needed. 

17.   Feedback from the Videographer for dancing segment: Dancers to choreograph the full song in the future and leave the editing to them. 

18.   Could have done a graphic background for the dance segment. 

19.   It was very disappointing and heart breaking to cancel the initial cooking & home segment planned with one of our pioneer IAEC member at a very last min.  Sincere apologies to her and her family members who were waiting for us since morning till late afternoon. 

20.   In spite of informing temple personnel to get their information ready beforehand, they were only finding for information at the last min which also factored for the delay in the filming timing. 

21.   As it’s the first time, it is a learning process for the team 

22.   Communication –As the Organising Committee chairman, I felt that some communication in the group chat could have been avoided and clarified personally as it had escalated to a scenario of non-cohesiveness between myself and the team.  I would like to raise those issues with the team personally and sort them out to move on.