End of week 1 - Reflection
How did the pitch help you focus your idea?
The pitch helped me gather all my information and research to finally try and create a cohesive description / pitch that would represent my idea clearly and effectively to an audience of people. Pitching the idea also helped me understand the strengths and weaknesses of my project and my outcome overall.
How has peer feedback helped you evaluate your project?
Peer feedback helped me realise where my visualisation needed improvement and how I could make my pitch much stronger. For example, I was told that my drawings would have been much more understood with some writing or descriptive text around it - like Victorian drawings. This feedback encouraged me to conduct research and further my understanding of the different ways I could present my ideas visually. In terms of my pitch, when asked questions about my product, I was able to understand what the viewers did not comprehend during my pitch and why that was. Because of the feedback I got I was able to revise my pitch into something clearer and more concise.
Looking back at the week, what were your expectations and were they fulfilled?
When I first approached this task I was scared of creating something that was not 'beautiful' or not 'good enough'. After getting advice from my tutors I started following my instinct and just draw whatever I had in my head. Being able to see my thought process visually on my sketchbook helped me understand and gather my ideas more clearly which is something that I didn't expect to happen. At the end of the week I think I fulfilled my expectations because I created something that visually represented what I had in my head.
Further Reflection on Week 1
On the last day of the Ideas Factory project we were asked to reflect on the week and on what we learnt. I feel that this project helped me understand how to create ideas without editing them too much on my own head before writing them on paper. I also learnt how to improve my pitch and how to visualise my ideas in an effective way - one of the exercises that were the most helpful were the drawing exercises as they helped me understand what medium is best to use for a certain idea or product.
I think the research that informed my ideas and outcome the most was the research I did on Francis Bacon: looking at the ways he dealt with his past and turned his emotions into paintings stuck with me which is why I started to think about an object that caused me a lot of pain in the past: braces. As braces are things that already exist nowadays, I started thinking about the possibility of having an object similar but that people would use intentionally.