Reflection Document Shem Dela Cruz Baua

What have your learnt from working in a team? What worked and what didn't? What would you do the same and what would you do differently?

I believe as a group collective we have learnt many things about ourselves, the process and how it is to produce one product as a group. I believe that as a team we worked quite well, not only in terms of communicating with each other and making sure that everyone was aware of what was happening, so that we all progressed throughout the process as a group, rather than individuals working at different stages/paces of the assignment. We also worked quite well in ensuring that everyone got tasks that would help our idea go forward e.g. with initial testing of the candleholders, we all undertook different materials to test what would work and what wouldn’t. We then continued this into our final products where we all produced different materials.

In terms of the stall this was also something that I believe wee achieved quite well in putting together as a collective. We all managed different tasks for the concept and build of the stall and I believe that this all came together as a collective when the stall was put together. The only downside of working in a team I found from such a broad 2^nd year cohort would be everyone’s schedules- we always made it a point to set up weekly meetings so everyone can keep on track. However with everyone being under different majors sometimes it was quite difficult to get everyone together, especially when it came to around hand-in time for our other papers. Otherwise I would happily say on behalf of the whole group that working together as a group has been an enlightening experience, and consider myself lucky to be put in a group of people whose ideas and personalities combined well to produce and execute a product that we are all proud of.

Shem Dela Cruz Baua

Hey this is a review from Matt.

i and the rest of the team were blown away with the interest in our tea light ecoglo candle holder product, personally i just couldnt believe when the punters started queing in numbers infront of our stall, i was totally thankful to those who bought and gave us tokens for all of our products, yet i was truly impressed with the feed back we got from the happy kind people who purchased the candles with the use in mind to take them home and make our product a part of their own personal space where they live. i hope that all those which bought our candles put them to good use, i was a little surprised that our product was so popular but i guess that was what we put in through the weeks of production really payed off, well short and sweet or as lyn the Industrial tutor would say small and perfectly formed, well that was how it was, so pleased with the team and the girls that minded the stall whilst i got to browse the entire market which was awesome. but really thanks to my team and everyone else who had the pleasure to participate. Matt Curran

Reflection Document - Michelle Francombe

Group Functioning: what worked and what didn’t? Think both about the process in the lead-up to the FUSE and the day itself

We all believe our group worked really well as a team for this assignment. In the lead-up to the Market Place event our group mostly communicated through a facebook page between our classes to make sure everything was running smoothly. Instead of people being expected to do work we designated tasks for each of us to complete by a certain date which worked really well in keeping everyone happy with everyones efforts and also busy! Due to sicknesses and other reasons for missing classes the facebook page meant we were able to catch up on what we had missed and discuss the next steps. The Fuse day itself went really well, we had established a clear idea of what we wanted our stall to look like and how we were going to execute that so when we went to the Great Hall the night preceding the event we were able to set everything up rather smoothly. Each of us had brought in our own candle holders that we had create along with other items to create our aesthetic, including a calico banner with our brand name painted on, the tags to be attached to all of our candles, crates to display our candles in, plain calico to decorate the stall and create a rustic feel, fairy lights to enhance the light and a vintage style cloth to go over our table! Then the Market Day itself went really well, we each spent some time behind the stall. For the majority of the time it was either Shem and I, or Natalie and Maddie, but the time went really fast, especially the first hour with the rush of people so we all hanged around for a while! 

My part of the reflection document- Maddie Barnett

For the market day our stall was very popular. We were very surprised at the start of market day as we started getting sales at about 10 am. We ended up having to stop selling the candles and telling people to come back at 11 when the market day actually started as were were already selling out. We were so surprised and flattered that our product was so popular with everyone. We ended up putting our prices up as well as we wanted them to begin cheap because we didn't know how much people were willing to pay. We had a range of prices, some were 2 tokens some were 3 and some were 4. The bigger ones were 4, wood and concrete mostly. On the day our group really performed as a team, we all help out with the stall either setting it up or putting it away and cleaning up our mess at the end. We took turns being at the stall and serving customers and talking to them about our product and how they were made we answered any questions that where asked. Me Natalie, Shem and Michelle were mainly always in our stall. The effort we went to was a lot more towards the end. Through our process we just developed our idea more and more of what we wanted and how we wanted everything to look. We each all had our own tasks of what we needed to do and make, this made it all happen. The end result was all worth it and it was equal we all worked well together as a group and it finally paid off on market day. The day of market day our idea and execution did live up to our expectations we do admit we were really surprised at how popular our product was and we were really hoping we would sell out which we did so this was validated on the day. The way we visualised everything on the day and how it all panned out really did happen and all our wishes came true which was really amazing. Overall the Market day was really amazing Ecoglo was truly a hit and everyone loved our product and stall. The whole experience was worth all the stress and it truly was an amazing and unique day and experience. 

MADDIE BARNETT

Market day images of customers- Maddie Barnett

Photos i took from market day of our customers and lines of people wanting to buy our product!! I didn't take photos of all the customers as some came back twice to get more and at stags we were so busy answering questions and showing everyone the different candles. A lot of the customers and people were happy for me to take photos of them with there purchased product this made the experience better for both us and the customers it made it funner and more interesting. There was a very humble and nice friendly vibe going round which was great everyone was happy and excited.


MADDIE BARNETT

Market Day- Maddie Barnett

Photos from the Market day of our stall- We had a great day and experience with everyone and our customers- Our stall completely sold out which was amazing everyone loved our candle holders and all the different elements- Glass- concrete- wood and clay. Wr decorated our stall to be very rustic and give releasing vibes with our candles on the table and also hanging one showing you how you can use them. We got a A+ for health and safety which was great as we are around fire and sheets so that was a bonus. We also had fairy lights to add another factor to decorating out stall. Over all we had a great experience and everyone loved our stall and what we created.

MADDIE BARNETT

Market Day - Natalie

Some images from our sell out stall at the market palace. We were surprised about the amount of interest we gathered from our stall at the market and the amount of positive feedback from our customers. Our holders were priced between 2, 3 and 4 tokens each and we still sold all 80 of them. We have considered this a tremendous success. The final sell out time was 1.30pm and we received around 200 tokens from customers.

We feel as though we styled our stall effectively to present the rustic, homemade atmosphere of our product.

- Natalie Crawford