Sixth week

Group work & feedback. Today our tutor discussed our Individual PDP on a one to one to give us feedback on the areas where we said we needed improving.

·      Contact our client at random

·      Good understanding of the task

·      Keep a good attitude on the task even though it’s not real life

As our client hasn’t been able to contact us in the past two weeks we decided to go as a group that it would be best to email our presentation that we had completed on why we wanted to choose ‘party in the park’ and our ideas included. We did this so the client has a sense of direction in what we wanted to do and have a clear understanding so when we’d call him he’d know our objectives.

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Fifth week

During todays lesson we discussed time management. As a group we have been communication with each other on queries we may have had about the tasks. One of our queries happened to be brought by Mark- the company budget. As we were aware of the £2,500 budget we questioned whether the company would actually allow us to use this budget or if it was fictional. However, we discussed this situation with Mark for us to find out that the project won’t consider our ideas which was very upsetting as we were excited and enthusiastic for the company to take on board our improvements we planned to make. On the other hand, the group is trying to keep a positive attitude with the rest of the task and adapt to the slight chances.

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Plan of action:

·      Consider problems (internal and external)

·      Create a Gantt chart

    It’s important to have up to date records for the project to run smoothly. It also makes it easier for the rest of the team on what needs to be done and what has already been done.

Fourth week

In this weeks lesson we interrogated exactly what was on the brief to get a clear understanding on the tasks we are meant to complete from our agencies. A critical understanding was to embed the 4 P’s for pitching: personality, persuasion, passion and performance.

We also received our feedback from our pitches on what went well and what needed to be improved.

Why did we do well? 

-       We had shown passion and great understanding for our brief.

-       Good team skills.

-       Knowledge and good/reasonable amount content on the slides.

-       Included cases and strategy - online and offline interaction considered.

-       Good thoughts and responses to questions.

 What could be improved?

-       More Visuals on the slides.

-       Clear information.

-       Improve time management on uploading to the pitch to Moodle.

-       We were maybe sometimes too ambitious.

-       Talk more to the audience and less screen reading.

After analysing our strengths and weaknesses on the presentation we planned what

questions to ask our client. These included questions, such as how do they currently engage with their audience and the budget for this project we needed to consider. Along with this I completed my personal development plan that will enable me to view any improvements I’ve made from the beginning of the year compared to the end of the year.

Third week

It’s the week we have to pitch! The team spent last night organising the last few bits for our preparation. We have chosen what slides we are planning on saying, the colour scheme and our theme! Due to Party in the park being a festival I thought it’d be creative to bring festival props as it will hopefully make the audience have a sense of excitement and anticipation for the presentation.

I was super excited to be presenting to the class as I was confident in our aims and our future plans on the company * The Wireless Group* as well as the whole group having a positive attitude. I am very happy with the group dynamics as everyone contributed in different sections of the power point. However, the competition is fierce as there were two other groups pitching for the project and there will be more in the following lesson.

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