On Thursday evening FMBe Creative had the opportunity of taking over the NTU FMB Instagram account to share the brand development work that we’ve been working on over the past month or two.
Since learning about the practice and effectiveness of reflection, I am going to consciously write this blog with a reflective mindset, starting with ‘describing’ what happened, touching upon my ‘feelings’, as well as ‘evaluating’ and ‘analysing’.
My team, FMBe Creative, were allocated the time slot 8:30-9pm. Overall, I thought it was a very successful experience. We were one of the last teams to takeover the Instagram page, and we were all a but apprehensive and worried that we may be repeating similar content to previous groups. However, it turned out that the content we posted was unique in the sense that no one else did. After discussing on our WhatsApp group chat, we decided we would upload individual videos. We decided that in these videos we would reflect on the module, by discussing what the highlights and lowlights of the module/project have been for each of us. This was my idea and I am glad I suggested this and thought it was a great idea because it allowed us to use our reflective skills that we have been learning throughout this week, as well as giving future second year FMB students great insights into the module that they will likely be taking part in, in the future.
This was my individual reflective video in two parts that was shown on the NTU FMB stories:
Upon evaluation, it was a great experience and I am grateful that we got this opportunity. The run up to our takeover slot was slightly stressful as we didn’t confirm our ideas with plenty of time. It was also disappointing because only five out of nine of our team members took part by providing a reflective film. This was a shame because I think it would have been great for every team member to take part, since it was a group task. Nonetheless, it was a successful experience for the five of us that did take part. It has benefitted me and given me skills that I can take forward into future projects and aspects of life.
If I were to take part in this again or something similar in the future, I would make a conscious effort to better plan our content and structure our time slot. To do this, I would schedule a live teams meeting over something like MS Teams or meet in person well in advance of the time slot to throughly plan and be clear on what we want to do.
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