| Shaun |
21-03-2014 09:20 PM |
Team Orangu (Pothuthic and Vanessa)
Obviously your idea stands out given the very similar nature of the other two teams, but that's not necessarily automatically in your favour. As some of the questions from the investors suggest, you may have had too much going on in your idea.
When popping into your team room over the past two days, the biggest impression you gave was that you were running around coming up with all sorts of quirky and possibly fun ideas for the paper rather than working on how it would work, and what your pitch would look like. I admire that you sought approval from many guest editors and writers but I think it distracted you from the final project's overall look. Jack_ hit the nail on the head really wondering how it would appear on the site.
The idea would also rely upon a lot of members and I'm not sure I can see it going ahead without a few hiccups. Also I would rather let my cat suck me off than see Smithy's desperate ARTPOP promo week in and week out.
I definitely enjoyed your pitch though and think you put a lot of thought into making it a fun and new idea for the forum. I also respect Pothuthic as a neutral editor and think he would definitely give this project his all (and with Vanessa as a coworker I'm assured of results).
Team Ozil (Morrissey, Drew and Jake)
Before I assess your task, may I just say that I think you had an opportunity, Natalie, to seal two star performers for your team here and you only chose one. I would've tried to capture Vanessa given her work-rate, in your position, but I understand you may have just wanted to work with a team you know and trust.
Which leads me onto the team assessment... where were you guys? You had nothing solid until about 4pm today, and most of that was thanks to an uncertain design from Jake (which you didn't really commit to, from what I make of his posts in the subforum) and a last-minute write-up from Drew.
I think you and the Joukas team may have come up with the most "ready" feature ideas but I was a little let down by how similar they were to the defunct version.
Team Jordan. & Loukas
Boo to your lack of a team name.
So I was a little frightened after day one of the task because there weren't any posts in your room :umm2: and then today a miracle happened. Jordan, I think you really got the ball rolling with your eye-catching designs and it seemed to spark Loukas into action, too, and you worked well together to tweak the suggestion and come up with many ideas.
You may have a disadvantage tonight in that you're presenting a similar idea to the Ozils after them but hopefully the greater work you've put into the presentation shows. I think yours had a few more ideas that stood out above the Ozils' - the idea of a forum award, the changing colour scheme and trending topics - but there were a few weakpoints too.
Of the complaints I'd offer, there're a few silly ones (the logo reminds me of the Monsters Inc logo for some reason :conf2:, the idea of Rita Ora trending) but more importantly I think you may have talked yourselves out of the win with the Q&A. I think you may have been safer just saying it's open 24/7 rather than try to make it seem practical, and using YouTube videos rather than having to upload tracks would be so much simpler :laugh:
If I had to pick a star performer from all of the above teams, it would be Loukas on account of his presentation skills, his work to really polish up the task entry, and taking the baton from Jordan and running with it.
And, similarly, if pushed I would have opted for the Loukas & Jordan. team as the winning team, but it's not down to me is it :inamood: |
