Exhibition

Last week (from the 19th to the 22nd) was the date of the college exhibition, which was hosted by Milsom Place in Bath.

Helping to arrange the exhibition and take part in it was a really interesting experience!  I have never done anything like that before and I feel that it was a really interesting and useful thing to take part in.

My main jobs were to design the portal to display interactive work and sort out the takedown on Sunday evening.  The first job was not very difficult but quite time consuming.  I came up with a number of ideas on paper before creating three initial prototypes.  One of these was chosen and I worked on it further, adding extra features and fine-tuning the appearance.  I had it complete with a few days to spare and thought (wrongly) that everything would be smooth and easy after that - which turned out to be a big mistake!  An hour before the opening on the first night of the exhibition we lost the internet connection (which I had paid for, annoyingly!) and there was mass panic. Maybe a slight over-exaggeration there...a couple of students in the centre of Bath were panicking - but there was panic nonetheless!  After talking to the duty manager and trying different locations to connect to the lost connection, we discovered that a nearby business had free wifi and luckily one corner of our top room was just inside their signal - so we moved the Macs and away we went!

The takedown was quite easy and went very smoothly (everything was packed up within half an hour) and the only problem was (and still is) that I had a lot of trouble finding extra transport.  This meant that I still have five of the pictures from the exhibition in my dining room - but these things happen!

Overall I enjoyed arranging and taking part in the exhibition.  It was very informative to have my work used and rated - and as this was my first time receiving criticism from members of the public I will not lie, I did not know how to react at some moments!

For me, I do not think that the exhibition has had any direct bearing on my career - but it has given me some more experience in arranging and planning and has opened my mind up to networking events.  I also am quite happy with the appearance of my portal for the exhibition and believe that it will look good in my portfolio as an example of my work.