#3 Negotiation Skills and Team Work Skills

It wasn't easy at all, with the pressure of tight timeline one after another that gives no breaks in between. The pressure within the team, the challenge to get everyone agree in the project direction and the pressure from the brief, completing the work with the limited timeline do make me feel stress.

When the team discussed about the project direction, we have our very own interpretation of what it means to be a good idea. No matter in terms if the choice of media, the choice of visual experience, and the choice of theme. We are all very critical in how the final outcome of the project communicates our idea. So I have to change my strategy from discussing the media direction to discussing the issue behind our project. Maybe letting the issue solidify our approach of creating the media product it will help us to share the vision clearer and better.

After lots of research and reading as my previous post has displayed, most of us agreed to work on Vending Machine kind of media solution with the issue hanging, uncertain.

We explore our ideas by thinking through the process and technicality without too much compromising of the excitement we wanted to maintain in the journey of exploring the media artifact.

Most of our ideas are sketched out, explored, critically argued, and then thrown away when not all agreed in the idea. We are still not very happy at the idea. So we do some more research and discussion. 

Ad most of the direction and suggestions are from me, the other members are acting passively, not having much understanding about what I've proposed, I have to make the tasks assigned even more specific. Instead of asking the members to research for direction, I requested everyone to specifically perform tasks as below: 

Then, everyone also very corporative in performing the tasks given. Though some of the members needs very specific explanation and clarification, but we manage to get everyone's input to then re-organize ourselves again.