This week, I have the second Dragon Den presentation with Dominic Stone and Emily Zak. In this presentation, I presented my project without PowerPoint slides or any other visualization to support my presentation. I felt worried about how I could explain my project clearly without any visual support within 3 minutes, but it turned out quite clear to deliver my message and ideas to two experts and Zuleika as well so it was a great pitching experience for me.
Dominic was the first one who talked about his opinion of my project. He mentioned that creative industries are using the talent and resources of international creative individuals reminded me of when I thought about the responsibilities for the adaptation of creative graduates in unit three. We both have common sense about this. Therefore, I decided to talk about this situation with another expert Seema, the graduate employability support manager for opinions about this. Another dragon Emily advised that the range of my stakeholders could be more specific, for example, she thinks different creative graduates should have different problems and challenges for getting into the industries. I felt the same when I was doing my project in unit three and I was really tangled about whether should I only choose people expertise in the same creative industry, however, I blurred the boundaries between different creative individuals because I wanted to create the function of making creativity become diversity and learning without boundaries. However, I will research more about art and design creative graduates to learn about the differences and specific problems they have because I only focus on this group of stakeholders.
When I heard they feedbacked to other students, Emily talked about the word “mentorship”. She talked about how this could be meaningful to the project like mine and some others in my group, although people seem to ignore who is the mentor because they think anyone could be a mentor once they have experience. I feel like this is an interesting thing to me because mentorship is helpful for my project, and there are different ways of mentorship could be like in my project, both for creative graduates themselves who presented the mentorship with each other and mentorship for me.