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The Digital Spy Apprentice Series 4 - Task Six Boardroom
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Hello candidates and welcome to the sixth boardroom!
How are you currently feeling about the task? Do you think it has gone well for your team?
How are you currently feeling about the task? Do you think it has gone well for your team?
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Really well, thank you. One of the best tasks so far, I think.
I am very unsure due to the skill shown by both teams but am hoping we pull through. The task wasn't easy, but we were finished yesterday evening - due to co-operation and hard work!
I am quite nervous today and anxious for the results. I think our team has done well with the artist and song we have chosen and the final pitch we have produced.
For the rest of the team, your views on Roxie as PM?
I was really happy with Roxie. She was very passionate about our chosen artist, she clearly knew a lot about Eurovision and we produced something the whole team believed in. As I said on my evaluation, there were a few things I had concerns about - she didn't seem to know a whole lot about writing a formal pitch, for instance - but those concerns were very minor when compared to all her good points.
The rest of the task was great too. I made sure to give George and Iain guidance on how to tackle their specific sections. I made sure everything was structured and I delegated tasks based off their individual strengths. Iain was strong on the production side while George was strong in promotion so I gave them overall responsibility of those areas while continuing to supply ideas.
Also I put myself up straight away for this, not only because I am an avid Eurovision and music listener so I understand how the competition works but I also like analysing voting trends, what makes acts successful and which acts people like. And I frequently go on sites like Sofabet to see other people's views on such trends and statistics. So from both a passionate and a analytical point of view I thought I would be the best person for the role.
Moving on to Aptitude, Arran, similarly to Roxie this was your 2nd time as PM, how do you think your stint compared? You did get a few negative comments the first time round so do you think you learnt from that and improved this time round?
For the rest of the team, what did you think of Arran as PM?
The most important thing in a PM, to me, is co-operation and I really think we did that at a good pace, to a good standard!
Any elaboration on that?
I thought Arran was a good PM, he was organised and supported the cooperation of the team. Things were delegated well and I was happy with what i received. I do think there were probably a problem with being indecisive but we managed to work together to finish the pitch with the time we had left.
I am also slightly surprised George commented about my knowledge of putting together a professional pitch as I have done so perfectly fine before on a number of occasions. The end product of the pitch was actually more my phrasing than George's so I find it slightly surprising that he would feel 'concerned' about it. I may have rushed through the first proof read because there was a lot of material to cover so I asked George to look over it all too and make sure it reads well.
It was only a minor thing, Roxie. I meant things like not knowing how abbreviations work in formal pieces of writing, and preferring 'feel free to ask any questions' to 'I'd now like to open the floor to questions'. It's just a small thing, feel free to disagree. As I said, compared with your good points that was nothing.
Anyway, getting onto the task, there were lots of different aspects to the task so I'll go through them systematically.
Starting with the artists and songs chosen. This was obviously an important part of the task and you both chose interesting artists. For both teams, what were your reasons for choosing your specific artist and song? Was this a unanimous decision across the teams?
Since I agreed with why you chose to not choose Kyla.
We had a shortlist of three artists which we had chosen with Natalia Kills being one of them. We then voted for which one we would like to choose, and my vote was for Kyla La Grange because i felt she would be able to create a buzz with the song I had chosen. Shadi and Arran didn't agree and we went with Natalia Kills who I still liked and thought was a plausible choice.
You said Kyla was boring?