Final Presentation and Evaluation

Completed Presentation

Evaluation of Presentation

I managed to do the presentation even though I was poorly, I actually hadn't spoken for all of Sunday because my voice was so bad and I really wanted it to be better for Monday. I know that my presentation skills were not so good because I was struggling with this, standing up in front of a group of people is a nerve-wracking experience but knowing that your voice sounds funny and that it might fail on you at any moment makes it that little bit worse. Anyway, the overall presentation went okay in my opinion, I probably shouldn't have used cue cards because I became more reliant on them than I actually needed to be because I had practiced my lines and knew the content I needed to say. When you have something written in front of you, you tend to use it whether you need it or not.

Evaluation of Life's a Pitch

I think communication did work well in our group overall. We met up a fair few times as a group and we also had a group chat on Facebook so we could get in touch with each other outside of college. At some points I felt I was the go-between to make sure everyone was kept up to date with all of the information being shared on the Facebook chat as not all of us had Facebook. This wasn't a real problem or anything and I barely noticed it during the actual process, I just feel it would have been more sensible and efficient to use a communication method that involved everyone in the first place. In the sessions I felt like most people contributed freely and I feel everyone tried their best to be fair and encouraged all team members to have their input.

When it comes to the actual idea for our business, the deeper we got into the idea, the more doubts I had about Platform being a viable business. Looking back at our original idea of the travelling truck which hosts art fairs, I think it is clear that our group's downfall is overcomplicating things. We made this idea so complex and involving so many different things that we decided to ditch it and move on to something totally different. Then I think the same happened to Platform in the end, we tried to be too specific with things, adding loads of minor details which it made it very difficult to understand and explain and therefore led to its downfalls. When it comes to building a business proposal, simplicity is definitely best and I can now speak from experience after seeing the presentations from other groups.

If I was to do this project again, I would definitely spend more time on research because I think a lot of the statements we made in the presentation were not supported very strongly with fact. I feel like we could have also done some better research if we did things first hand, for example, actually selecting a printer and going in and talking to them rather than just relying on what they have on their website. We could have also contacted companies like Illustration Friday or Quertee to ask about the response they got when they first set up their websites, this might have given us a better idea of the numbers we should be working with. 

I think working in this group went well and it was a good project to work on alongside other people but I will always be one of those people who prefers working alone. I am fine working to a deadline but when I know people are relying on me more consistently, I become really conscious that I don't want to let anyone down by not having work completed or to the standard it needs to be. This is good in some ways because it makes me work harder but I also put a lot more pressure on myself which stresses me out which isn't healthy when working as a team.