With our exhibition finished and up, all that was left to do was to be around for when the public came to see our work. I was quite surprised as to how many people turned up to the venue to have a look. Most of the people were students or tutors from the university however we did have a few members of the public coming in. It was nice to hear good comments about our work and to see that people appreciated it.
Even though waiting around for a few hours got a little boring towards the end, it did go quite quickly and Gabi and I had an interesting chat with and man called Marcus Lord. Marcus works at MMU as the business development manager of art and design. He was asking us what we thought of the unit as a whole and what the background of our work was. He went on to explain the ideas behind Unit X and I think something clicked in mine and Gabi's heads. Marcus explained that when he had meetings with companies outside of the universities, they would always say that, yeah graduates are great, but they have no experience with working collaboratively, getting their points across, explaining their work and the list went on. Marcus went onto to explain that this is why they believe unit x is so important; it gives us so much experience for the working world and also puts us in a better place for getting jobs- employers will actually want us. Next year, unit x is all about working with others who want to go into the same industry/area as you. I think this will be really interesting and extremely useful.
Even though this unit hasn't been my favourite, I now know why we're doing it and I truly believe that it will help us tremendously for our future. I think if we had Marcus introducing the project, we would have come away wanting to get on with it and understand why we were doing it.
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