Individuals Work

Individual Work 

Fern's WORK 

Figure 32 - During the day the exhibition was busy and the pressure to complete designs was high. The quality of the design were to a professional standard and all mechanics were hidden. Flower placement on each design was unique. The strongest design was the cup design (center of image) as it was striking and the line of flower was neat. The weakest design was the ping pong design (far right of image) Time was not a strength during construction on the day, parts such as flower conditioning and wiring test tubes were abandoned. The space overall was filled enough to not look lost. Back wall was missing a design that could of been constructed.

 Theresa's WORK 

Figure 33, Theresa work was very colourful, this was a strength to her collection of designs. Her theme was recycling so both natural and man made materials were manipulated in her designs. Her strength were the series of bike wheels, these hung at different levels that gave a clear line. Though the back wall imagery was distracting the design stood out. The design on the back wall was Theresa weakness. The design looked unfinished and would of suited more flowers. The layout Theresa incorporated works and none of the designs look lost. Charlotte's WORK  Figure 34, Charlotte incorporated many techniques within her work such as glueing and wiring. The tea pot design used both hanging and a prop. The use of cards added a novel idea and added a fun aspect overall. The positioning of her designs could of been altered as they all look cramped. The key hole may of looked better on an angle. The use of colour was perfect for the conditions of the room, orange was an excellent choice.  Sam's WORK   Figure 35, Sams work incorporated the use of various materials. The idea of egg cartons is an innovative idea and difficult to construct as the material is not very pliable. To leave the stems on the Gerbera adds movement to the frames that was needed, these were also test tubes attached so the flowers could drink. Weaknesses to Sam's work was the simplicity of the mannequin. The shape could of been more radical and more flowers could of been used. The Cake did not look finished and the line of flower was lost.  Gemma's Work  Figure 36, Gemma's work was brightened up by the use of yellow Gerberas, her materials chosen were dark but the outlines were defined enough to not be lost. The textures within the dress contrasted to the vinyls and added an exciting depth. More colour could of been used to compliment the yellow. The design on the bar area could of been larger and displayed on a prop to become more stable.  Client  Malcolm Scott (client) was very happy with the designs. Feedback was that the displays were big enough for the room and they grabbed the viewers attention  Visitors  Visitors were low due to the fact that promotional materials were not sent out. Another issue was the college also had an educational evening that the majority of our visitors were invited to first.  Overall the final exhibition was a success the designs had a presence to the room and each visitor was impressed by the groups design. Group management was a difficult process and a lot of lesson have been learnt for the future, such as time management and clear deadlines. The group itself had major issues outside that none of us took on board.     References  Websites  Group Website (no date) [Online] Available at <http://collective5ctpof.wix.com/floristry-showcase> Project Management Quotes (no date) avaialble at <https://www.wrike.com/blog/15-project-management-quotes-to-live-by-infographic/> Scope triangle (no date)available at <http://www.tutorialspoint.com/management _concepts/project_management_triangle.htm>

Run up to Final Exhibition

Run up to Final Exhibition 

No more minutes were recorded 

Invites

The issue was lack of communication I believed that my peers were not supporting my tasks strong enough. This left me in the dark of who was printing and cutting the invites out. Certain peers I believed were not taking enough responsibility towards the end and unfortunately the invites were never sent out.

A lot of effort and pressure was put on my role but perhaps the lack of knowledge of the rest of the group was the weakness to this task.

T-shirts

The t-shirts were never printed on. This task was a last minute decision by a group member and did not sufficiently put her ideas across. Majority of the group did not bring a t shirt in.

Logistics

Transport was arranged for design in the morning of the exhibition. Space was limited on the transport arranged so emergency transport was brought in that cost the group money. The majority of the group did not think about the transportation and were not a part of delivering. Me and another member took responsibility of everyone’s designs and the rest met at the location. This I believe showed an inability to hold responsibility.

Day of the Exhibition

The day of the exhibition went smoothly apart from the presentation. A member of the group role was to build a presentation to show at the exhibition. Invitations

In this session I started to design the invitations. This part of the group management should have been done earlier to ensure invites would be posted out to guests. 1^st draft was completed but no one had time to proof read so this invite could not be completed.  I had further problems as this task would be prolonged further as I was absent the week after.

Unfortunately, the USB the presentation was saved to had snapped. I then was held responsible for the presentation as I was the only one who fixed the issue of saving the presentation on to my stick.

This really impacted my time during the placement of flowers as the presentation took ages to load whilst the builder of the presentation took no notice.

Session Thirteen

Session Thirteen – Absent

A major problem of the group was communication. Being ascent again in the final stages was not brilliant. Out of hours I finished of the invites and poster. I then messaged the group to see if they wanted any promotional materials sent to them for printing but had no reply. If communication was better time would not have been as pressured. 

Figure 32, Completed Poster. This was to be used for the client and any perspective location for promotional material. 

Session Eleven

Session Eleven – Absent 

During this week the preparation for invites started, this was a productive step and could mean the invites could be done the week after. A lot of costing were complete for the invitations such as the card and ribbon a peer bought. 

A lot of tasks such as finalising invites, contacting client for confirmation but these tasks by the chosen peer were not complete due to outside problems so she had to leave. 

An action that was never informed to me was to send images to the peer that was preparing the PowerPoint. This was never brought up till last minute and i was frustrated. 

Session Ten

Session Ten

At this point during group management the time management triangle emphasised more on quality, the overall finish of the website was impressive but time was running out for other tasks.

Invitations

This session the invites were critiqued by the group to ensure all the information was supplied at best ability. This was done but no final check had been complete.

T-shirts (see figure, 30) 

A member of the group suggested that wearing matching t shirts would make the day more professional. This was ignored mostly because tasks already planned had not be completed. We were told to buy a plain black polo so the member of the group could print on them using transfer paper. Having had experience with paper transfer the logo decided would not look contrasting enough, but this task continued to go on (see figure,31). A massive problem of why this was not completed was the logo i had developed was never given to the peer in charge of the t -shirts, this was because i was never available due to being absent.  

Figure 30 , Positioning of Logo on shirt

Figure 31, The Logo for the t shirt. The logo on a black backdrop would be lost. 

Session Nine - 8th February 2016

Session Nine

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus - Covey, S (No Date)

Work set for me was becoming a lot compared to other peers. My Emails from initial start about the venues and communication were still not sent, this was a negative reflection on me and lack of communication, this prevented a task to be completed. I really did not appreciate being a part of this task as I had enough to work on. 

Invitations

In this session I started to design the invitations. This part of the group management should have been done earlier to ensure invites would be posted out to guests. 1st draft was completed but no one had time to proof read so this invite could not be completed.  I had further problems as this task would be prolonged further as I was absent the week after (see figure 28-29).

Figure 28, Front side 

Figure 29, Back of Invite

Session Six to Eight

Session Six to Eight

Font decisions were made to be COURIER NEW. This style was accepted by the group. It was chosen as its easy to read and fashionable. 

Logo  

The development of the logo became long winded as my visions became too technical for my abilities. Once the original logo was completed individual logos were then completed with there colour (see figure 19-20).

Figure 19 Original design 

Figure 20, This was developed firstly, the group did not the black font. Flower looked tacky and could be improved on 

Figure 21, This was developed, incorporating the theme collage this was bold enough and fitted the brief of the group.

Figure 22, Personalised logos were completed, as a group we decided to build individual ones with their chosen colour, the task was complete but these logo has no presence on marketing promotion (see figure 23-26). 

Figure 23, Ferns Logo 

Figure 24, Gemma Logo

Figure 25, Theresa Logo

Figure 26, Sam Logo

Website was currently constructed, I had no input for this as my workload was enough to concentrate on. The other tasks such as sponsorship, guest lists were someone else responsibility. As a member of the group I did not believe that tasks were being completed. Simple jobs such as an invitation list did not exist currently. This in my opinion should have been one of the first tasks completed, but as the pressure were getting high with other commitments they were left. The quality of the show was most important but the time building an invite list and sending was lost.

http://collective5ctpof.wix.com/floristry-showcase

Session Five - 7th January 2016

Session Five - 7th January 2016

During initial development, my role had a large amount of work. I tried to complete tasked efficiently so improvements could be made. Tasks such as messaging and emailing prospective clients was also allocated to me. This overloaded my roles and i struggled to find time for this. At this session I could see that other members of the group were not providing enough work on their tasks.  

Without public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed 

Lincoln, A (No Date) 

Colour Scheme

Colour ID numbers were developed to categories us on the website. These colour were pastels (see figure 7 - 12.)

 Figure , 7 Colour CRM numbers 

Figure, 8 Gemma Colour Scheme

Figure 9, Sam Colour Scheme

Figure 10, Fern Colour Scheme 

Figure 11, Charlotte Colour Scheme 

Figure 12, Theresa Colour Scheme 

Profile Pictures

As an example a profile picture was developed(see figure 13). This Image involved trailing flowers replacing hair. The group thought this method looked untidy. A more basic design was developed by the group (see fig….) This Session could have been more productive if Actions were completed. Profile Picture should have been a quick job but because certain peers did not send a profile picture of a high resolution as asked, this job was prolonged. This frustrated me and i didn't feel happy to start another task till another was complete.

Figure 13, Profile Picture

Profile Picture were decided to just center on a face profile, with a black and white filter. Background to be their choice of colour (see figure 14-18). 

Final Profile Images 

Figure 15, Gemma Profile 

Figure 14, Fern Profile

Figure 16, Theresa Profile

Figure 17, Sam Profile

Figure 18, Charlotte Profile

The Overall Finish of the profile Picture were rushed. Fern, Gemma and Theresa are finish to high quality as their images were handed on time to provide a quality design. I had issues with both Sam and Charlottes image's. The images sent were not good enough quality and the overall finish suffers. 

Session Four - 14th December 2015

Session Four

A personal Task the group wanted me to conduct was a theme design, through looking at packaging and Pinterest a collection of samples was shown to the group. The group showed positivity to my ideas and felt inspired.

The group particularly liked a collage design (figure 6). Whilst discussing I informed them of the simplicity of this design process and needed little time to create to develop a high quality piece.

Restriction given to me were to not use imagery of tropical flowers as the group wanted to center on country garden varieties such as Roses, Hydrangea, Tulips and carnations. 

Figure, 6 Initial Collage 

Session Three - 7th December 2015

Session Three

Updated with last week actions, I presented group names such as the Flower Vault, Stigma, Stamen, Botanical, Stem. These ideas were recognized by the group but they didn’t like them as they were vague in description.

The title name 'Collective5' was brought up and seemed a catchy, relevant name for our group. Certain peers found the name a bit childish. The group decided to keep the name to prevent wasting time.

Figure 5, Collective 5 Title Page 

A hashtag was incorporated #ChangingThePerceptionOfFloristry this idea was developed by a peer that could be used during promotion (see figure, 5). This peer showed an initiative to marketing the exhibition 

Kardomah94 was selected collectively for our location to develop a collection of works for our final exhibition. Theresa communicated on a weekly basis to ensure initial checks were ticked such as health and safety, floor plans and a date. A peers positive communication with Malcolm Scott (Kardomah94 Owner) aided time and provided a positive relationship with the client.

As desktop Publisher duties where to develop key design features and promotional tools. The group wanted me to research a suitable theme/ brand that all the group liked. 

Session Two

Session Two

Absent. The group without me brainstormed name ideas for our final outcome. Names such as Flowers for Thought, Fusion Floral Techniques were most popular. The group discussed tactics and developed personal SWOT analysis tables, mine to be completed for next week in meeting.

Success consists of going from Failure and failure without loss of enthusiasm - Winston, C (1975) 

Aims and Objectives were written out. The aims and objectives I believed were relevant to our final outcome. I personally did not like the name Flowers for Though, it didn’t sound edgy enough for what I vision. This questioned whether my idea of the task was similar to the group? 

Session One

Session One

Available days were discussed, problems occurring was that there was not a suitable week to set in stone yet. As a group the month of May was the most attractive. This was because our course was coming to an end, enabling plenty of time to build a professional, imaginative outcome. Set Date was 19th MAY 2016

A peer also expressed that the spring/summer season may bring more selection of flower varieties. This point enforces an expertise in the floristry industry. If an expertise such as knowledge is used time management could benefit in time, cost and quality.

Key ideas of the final outcome were discussed for a short period, we as a group believed that the location with most opportunity was Hull and near surroundings. 

Certain members of the group argued with this as traveling and logistics could become challenging if left last minute. An advantage of using hull as a central hub was that a peer lived near the city center giving us a point of knowledge and confidence.

Role allocations were given out (see figure, 4).

                

Theresa –             PROJECT SECRETARY

Sam –                 PROJECT MANAGER

Charlotte –           ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER

Gemma –               DESIGN COORDINATOR

Fern –                DESKTOP PUBLISHER 

Figure 4, Website Profiles

Initial Starting Point - Scope Triangle

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Scope triangle 

Even if you are on the right track you will run over if you just sit there - Rogers, R (No Date) 

Figure 1, Scope Triangle 

During this reflective diary the use of the scope triangle would aid our progress and understand the principles of project management. The three constraints in a project management triangle are time, cost and scope. These need to be kept balanced to keep on track with tasks, to keep these balanced will need an organised, supportive group (see figure, 1).

The groups first challenge was to decide what to devise in our final exhibition. Ideas from the group were to integrate our floristry skills to provide charity arrangements for a charity gala/ ball. To develop a final exhibition within Bishop Burton, or to do an exhibition outside with a new client.  Personally I believed that the best option was to challenge the group to find, develop and create a final exhibition with a client outside of Bishop Burton. The group were 100% positive that we would not showcase designs at Bishop Burton as this would not challenge creativity.

Visits involved in initial location search.

 Management of the Final exhibition was initially strong, the group was communicating positively with roles allocated and a group name finalised; considering the time pressures of searching for a venue.

15^th October 2015 – Fort Paull

This location was spacious and provided plenty of outdoor and indoor space (see figure,2). Weaknesses were the location was rural and would need transport. The group overall agreed that this location was run down. 

Figure 2, Fort Paull

19^th October 2915 – The Treasure House

This location had providence in its surrounding areas but the cost was far to expensive. Peers did not appreciate that the venue has a dull atmosphere and the room was cramped 

22^nd October 2015 – Kardomah94 

This location was spacious and had an easy to talk to client. Problems were the lack of natural light and warmth. Certain Peers appreciated the darkness of the room as it could hold bold colour well (see figure,3). 

Figure 3, Kardomah94