"Your future in the media": Participation in the third medienfest.nrw again a complete success

Once again, many young people interested in further studies swarmed around the Faculty of Media's stand this year to find out about possible opportunities in the media sector. Prominent visitors to the Media Festival were likewise informed about the latest developments in the discipline: For example, NRW Media Minister Andreas Krautscheid – together with the Lord Mayor of Cologne Fritz Schramma – again visited the university's stand and were highly delighted by the new video productions shown to them on a Play Station 3 by Prof. Dr. Karin Welkert-Schmitt and her assistants Thomas Zipf (Dipl.-Soz.Päd.) and Gisbert van Dijk (Dipl.-Ing.): these presented the Faculty of Media on the new blu-ray discs. Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences was the only exhibitor at the Media Festival which used this new medium. The explicit aim was to address younger target groups, which succeeded in style with the help of the innovative disc.

New video trailer from the Faculty of Media for the medienfest.nrw 2009 Web site

Alongside animations which have already been awarded several prizes, completely new projects were "premiered": Two HD-videos concerning the faculty itself (as always, with music composed by students studying sound and image technology) and various video productions from the Media Technology Bachelor course which has been re-organised in the meantime.

There was also a new video production for the medienfest.nrw 2009: Six students created a video trailer for the Web site of the organisers of medienfest.nrw. To this end, they interviewed the head of news broadcasting at RTL, Peter Kloeppel, who devoted a great deal of his time to the students and provided them with a number of useful tips for planning their further careers. Well over 4,000 youngsters and young adults came to medienfest.nrw in the MediaPark in Cologne. Around seventy exhibitors met up with an interested and motivated public at more than 100 workshops and seminars. The extended range of information on further education this year attracted not only school pupils and students, but an increased number of young people looking to change their profession.

Prof. Dr. Karin Welkert-Schmitt believed that she had identified a completely new trend this year: This visitors seemed to be extraordinarily well informed. Advance research on the Internet enabled many of them to arrive at the information stand with quite specific questions on their planned studies and the course contents: "And a number of them even visited us the very next week at the university to meet up with current students and to conclusively clarify any outstanding questions. I'm even now looking forward to welcoming them to us as new students in the Winter semester."

Likewise in 2009 a positive outcome: Participation in the third Media Festival was again a complete success.