Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Digital Showcase Evaluation

Leading up to the showcase I was prepared as I'd had my boards finished months ago and had contacted businesses and arranged the raffle and prizes with weeks left in advance so when the day of the Showcase came all I had to do was meet and greet and do a radio interview at BCB.

My products were ready in advance and continued to be ongoing as I was in charge of the Shipley Media official Twitter account and also had guests, raffle, prizes ect. organised weeks in advance of the Showcase and ready to go so when we got to the day off the showcase I wasn't panicking or stressing.

Next time, the only thing I would do differently would be to tweet more than I actually did as due to ongoing work elsewhere it skipped my mind to tweet as much as I should have done in order to publicise the Showcase and the events surrounding it.

The showcase itself when far better than I or anyone else actually expected. The only glitch was that some of the technology didn't work but we got around that and made it bigger than we thought. The food selled well as did the raffle tickets. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and it was great to be there.

The effective things to come out of the Showcase was the resolve to get up stronger every time we got knocked down, even on the day when the technical glitch happened during the event itself and all the last minute rushing around and panicking. 

There is not a lot I would change to be honest. As I've already stated earlier, the only thing I would do differently would be to tweet more than I actually did as due to ongoing work elsewhere it skipped my mind to tweet as much as I should have done in order to publicise the Showcase and the events surrounding it.

I was happy with my final product as from my aspect not much went wrong. The Keighley Cougars sponsorship was fantastic and saw Scott Leatherbarrow attend the Showcase pre-show.  The Twitter was slow but worked and the Radio was a great experience.

I thought that despite at times there was signs the team could fall apart and things got a bit chaotic towards the end of the project that it was a relative success. This was because despite myself being slated throughout I pulled through and the publicising of the Showcase worked and got people through the doors. 

Shut myself out and not listen to anyone else, that would be my way of self improvement because at times I liked to do things my way and not the same way as everybody else and why this might have annoyed certain members of the group I thought it was the best solution to problems,

I think personally, the client would hire us again if required. They were always there to help when we wanted an opinion on a certain product. They also were very warm and welcoming to all new ideas throughout the process and had a great relationship with the members of the team.

As a team, we could prove our communication as when it did break down everything fell apart. This was best displayed when the little arguments and idle gossip began within certain little sections of the group. Individually, my contribution as I thought it was poor as at times I couldn't be bothered whatsoever. 

We did not follow the working practices accurately as they weren't really clear enough in order to help us understand the way we were suppose to work under the stewardship of Laura and this proved a hindrance throughout the process

The production process was a long and tiring affair but I think we pulled it off well when it came to the end. We had our moments, even on the day of the Showcase it was left til' the very last minute and this showed as there were some stressed out individuals but it came out as a success and that's all we could of hoped for.

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