Presenting to the judges....

The judges at the competition were not so nice to us, but we beat out Temple at least! I was not too enthused that the media plan was ripped apart after looking and doing it over and over for weeks on end. Yes, we did mess up, a lot, but it was a great experience to look and see what people really thought of our campaign, especially when we kept looking at it and didn't notice certain things. As a class, we were all so tired of looking at the same things over and over, it became mundane. Our presentation team did the best they could, and after watching the video of them performing, we saw that it was pretty nerve racking. I personally would not have been able to do it, especially when it comes to memorizing. I felt like I would have hiccuped somewhere and then completely lost it. As a class, we were upset to hear that we received 6th place, but happy that at least we got to go to competition. We were able to do something with only 17 people instead of 300, and thats an accomplishment. As a class, we looked through the plans book one last time and looked to see what the judge thought. It was interesting to see their responses.

I felt that this is important for this class because it is better to see what the judges thought, that way we can see what we should have done better. In turn the next class would be able to learn from those mistakes and not repeat them over again. Feedback is important in communications, and learning from that feedback is definitely beneficial to the competition process. I wish that we had feedback midway, that way we could change things if needed and then be able to make the campaign the utmost best it could be.  It helps the class to realize that their work is good, it just needs to be tweaked a bit to make it even better. Overall, this end of year look back helps the class to realize that it was hard work, and the judges appreciated what we had done.

I wonder what it could have been if we had the midway feedback....but thats a thought that will never be answered.

Bests,
Lisa