Week Nine- Market of Impossible Things (Critics)
This week was our review of the market Impossible Things.
Individual Reflections:
Ruth Johnson:
The market had a nice flow, there was a consistent atmosphere and their use of sound and lighting worked really well and effectively conveyed their theme. Their fictitious approach really worked with the theme of Impossible Things and this was consistent through all of their market stalls.
I believe their system of exchange was experiences? Though there was a mix of a few physical things in some of the stalls, like glow sticks/pills/sherbet etc... However although this changed slightly between each stall, they were all similar enough in the effect they had on customers that it was mostly imperceptible.
I did notice that although to some degree their use of snapchat to advertise their market was semi-successful, it did also make me feel after a while that I'd already seen the entirety of the market before we'd even been? Perhaps if this were to be replicated it would be more effective to only have a certain area that was allowed to be snapchatted, and have an area kept out of bounds, which would create more anticipation as to what might be hidden.
I felt that there was a really good combination of offerings, some interactive, some just visual and atmospheric, and these meshed together really well to create the overall flow of the market. If I had to choose a favourite here, I would have to go with the Cloning Bar stall. Although this is partly cause I love glow sticks and can be easily bribed, it's also cause I thought their stall was really cool in that it entertained a lot of people just waiting round in the middle of the market chatting and waiting round for some of the more time demanding stalls. And as Gombrich says in his reading, imagery has the ability to "draw the viewer into a world that represents a frozen moment in time" (Gombritch 7) This worked really well as you saw your photo as you left, reminding you of their stall as one of the last things you saw when you left the market. It was also cool to see all the visitors included evenly and their process of getting through everyone was really well planned out. The layout for their stall was perfect with how everyone went through them to get to the rest of the market, so it felt more as a process rather than just being thrown into something completely random. In this same way I also felt that the red pill stall was quite an original and successful idea, and also worked really well with their layout and process.
Gombrich qtd in Suda, Elizabeth. “Image as Text: Truth and Memory in Family History.” Agora, History Teachers' Association of Victoria.
Stephanie:
When walking into this market there was a sense of mystery and the unknown which helped toward fitting the theme of impossible things. to get in we had to take a sugar pill to get us in to this 'Other world' which was a strong start to this idea of it being impossible. The teams addressed the theme well throughout which each stall being completely different through idea and even time through the representation of it. one group took you on a journey to mars. another presented you with giant pictionary and another had a room filled with mirrors. they were all so different but yet effective in putting their idea across.
The atmosphere when you walked in was this very moody place with dimmed lighting which created to the idea of a different world. there was this big moving image on the back wall when you walked in giving this impossible out of world experience. I really enjoyed how they set the space and al the stalls, it was a smaller space to fit lots of people but it gave it a different vibe and really felt like a market or a crowded other world.
I feel as though their system of exchange was more experiencing the different things that were to offer. one stall provided you with a photo of your cloned self, another gave out sugar pills and another gave you the opportunity to have a laugh and draw with a giant pen. they were all unique so i wouldn't really say they had a definite system in ways? I might be wrong.
throughout there were different varieties of offerings and there were no double ups through the market.
1. one offering that stood out to me was this idea of offering someone a clone of themselves. this fit to the theme of the market as you wouldnt think to have your own clone. they took a photo of you and then morphed it in different ways and it then presented on a screen once you were indie the stall space.
2. another offering that i found quite interesting was of he stall that had the joke wall. this stood out and fit well with the theme as it isnt a regular things. It allowed you to see lots of different jokes from other different people that you never would have thought of. it allowed us as design and arts students to use our creativity through a stall.
3.the third offering that i enjoyed was how throughout the whole market there were different opportunities of being interactive and experience new things.
Overall i think that the market of impossible things was a really enjoyable experience and showed how creative people can be.
David:
The market had a nice atmosphere to it, as it was located in "The Pit" which is quite a small area, it gave all the stalls a friendly and welcoming vibe to the market goers, their use of space was very good, in terms of the available space in "The Pit" their stall placements used up all of the space, however the leftover space for the market goers to move around was quite bad, as I found that when the market was visited by more than 5 groups it was very hard to move in between the stalls. This was compounded by people idling around in the market chatting to their friends while waiting for their turn to enter a stall.
At the start of their market it was a really good idea to use the hallway outside of "The Pit". Before entering the hallway, the requirement of having the "Market of Impossible Things" added to your snapchat friends list as well as having to take photos of the stalls throughout the market and then uploaded onto their "campus story". This was successful in a way, as I found that, having to take photos of every single stall became hard for us, especially because we were one of the last groups to enter the market, because of the allocated time slot our group was supposed to enter at, as well as us as market goers, we wanted to experience all of the stalls however there wasn't enough time and the wait for some stalls were a lot longer than others. An example of a stall that had a long wait time was the one which was of an airline, that offered us an experience of going to the moon. The wait time was particularly long for this stall as we were told to sign up on a sheet of paper with our name and our phone number, after we had signed up we were told that we would receive a text when it was our turn, we waited close to 20 minutes and were seeing the market pack up, with no text saying it was our turn to enter the stall, we decided to leave. A stall that I found was quite successful was the cloning stall, as it was the second stall in the market, their location was right next to the entrance of the market which made it really easy in terms of market goers visiting their stall, the process of cloning was quite fast as well, as you only needed to sit down on a chair and face towards the camera for a quick photo.
Flore:
The Market of Impossible Things started on Level C in Block 12 and lead into 'the pit'. At the Entrance there were cautions signs that took us through the health and safety. Also before going into the pit we were given a sugar pill. these two encounters were really well approached at making it seem futuristic. I was really excited to see what they had come up with. When inside the pit there was a tea section and also a cloning stop where you got your photo taken and would see it at the end of the market. You also got given a glow in the dart wrist band to wear. The pit was really well decorated to the theme of futurist and mysterious. Continuing though the market went pretty quickly except for two stall that had a long line. Overall I think they worked well with the safe they had but the down falls of this market where the difference in time between each market stall as some only took a couple of minutes and others took way longer to even get to and then go through the experience. also another disappointing factor was their timing. We were told to come at 11 but by the time it was our turn to go in they had run out of items for example, space on the wall for us to draw on or the market slowly was being taken down as we were still going through the market.
Group Reflection:
Although we really enjoyed the market, we found the timing unorganised, we were supposed to be in the market at 11.15 but were asked to go at 10.30 (we weren't prepared at this time.) Also, the market was quite empty by this point, and so our experience was quite different to the experience that the first groups that went through would've had.
The air hostess stall (sorry we forgot to write down their offical name) was really really slow compared to the other stalls. We went through the rest of the market in about 15 minutes, but we were waiting over 25 minutes just for that one last stall. It got to the point where other stalls had begun packing up before they'd even gotten to us, so we ended up leaving and missing out completely.
The layout of the stalls was really good too, we loved full use of space in the pit and how they used the high ceilings to add to the spacious feel and impossible feel. All the stalls were exceptionally well costumed which added to the whole overall success of the market. The stalls all flowed together well and there were none that suck out of place and seemed different to the others. Overall we felt it was a really well organised and well put together market. Aside from the timing issues on the day we thought there was a lot of good preparation put into the quality stalls which was really influential to how we reviewed it.
Individual Reflections:
Ruth Johnson:
The market had a nice flow, there was a consistent atmosphere and their use of sound and lighting worked really well and effectively conveyed their theme. Their fictitious approach really worked with the theme of Impossible Things and this was consistent through all of their market stalls.
I believe their system of exchange was experiences? Though there was a mix of a few physical things in some of the stalls, like glow sticks/pills/sherbet etc... However although this changed slightly between each stall, they were all similar enough in the effect they had on customers that it was mostly imperceptible.
I did notice that although to some degree their use of snapchat to advertise their market was semi-successful, it did also make me feel after a while that I'd already seen the entirety of the market before we'd even been? Perhaps if this were to be replicated it would be more effective to only have a certain area that was allowed to be snapchatted, and have an area kept out of bounds, which would create more anticipation as to what might be hidden.
I felt that there was a really good combination of offerings, some interactive, some just visual and atmospheric, and these meshed together really well to create the overall flow of the market. If I had to choose a favourite here, I would have to go with the Cloning Bar stall. Although this is partly cause I love glow sticks and can be easily bribed, it's also cause I thought their stall was really cool in that it entertained a lot of people just waiting round in the middle of the market chatting and waiting round for some of the more time demanding stalls. And as Gombrich says in his reading, imagery has the ability to "draw the viewer into a world that represents a frozen moment in time" (Gombritch 7) This worked really well as you saw your photo as you left, reminding you of their stall as one of the last things you saw when you left the market. It was also cool to see all the visitors included evenly and their process of getting through everyone was really well planned out. The layout for their stall was perfect with how everyone went through them to get to the rest of the market, so it felt more as a process rather than just being thrown into something completely random. In this same way I also felt that the red pill stall was quite an original and successful idea, and also worked really well with their layout and process.
Gombrich qtd in Suda, Elizabeth. “Image as Text: Truth and Memory in Family History.” Agora, History Teachers' Association of Victoria.
Stephanie:
When walking into this market there was a sense of mystery and the unknown which helped toward fitting the theme of impossible things. to get in we had to take a sugar pill to get us in to this 'Other world' which was a strong start to this idea of it being impossible. The teams addressed the theme well throughout which each stall being completely different through idea and even time through the representation of it. one group took you on a journey to mars. another presented you with giant pictionary and another had a room filled with mirrors. they were all so different but yet effective in putting their idea across.
The atmosphere when you walked in was this very moody place with dimmed lighting which created to the idea of a different world. there was this big moving image on the back wall when you walked in giving this impossible out of world experience. I really enjoyed how they set the space and al the stalls, it was a smaller space to fit lots of people but it gave it a different vibe and really felt like a market or a crowded other world.
I feel as though their system of exchange was more experiencing the different things that were to offer. one stall provided you with a photo of your cloned self, another gave out sugar pills and another gave you the opportunity to have a laugh and draw with a giant pen. they were all unique so i wouldn't really say they had a definite system in ways? I might be wrong.
throughout there were different varieties of offerings and there were no double ups through the market.
1. one offering that stood out to me was this idea of offering someone a clone of themselves. this fit to the theme of the market as you wouldnt think to have your own clone. they took a photo of you and then morphed it in different ways and it then presented on a screen once you were indie the stall space.
2. another offering that i found quite interesting was of he stall that had the joke wall. this stood out and fit well with the theme as it isnt a regular things. It allowed you to see lots of different jokes from other different people that you never would have thought of. it allowed us as design and arts students to use our creativity through a stall.
3.the third offering that i enjoyed was how throughout the whole market there were different opportunities of being interactive and experience new things.
Overall i think that the market of impossible things was a really enjoyable experience and showed how creative people can be.
David:
The market had a nice atmosphere to it, as it was located in "The Pit" which is quite a small area, it gave all the stalls a friendly and welcoming vibe to the market goers, their use of space was very good, in terms of the available space in "The Pit" their stall placements used up all of the space, however the leftover space for the market goers to move around was quite bad, as I found that when the market was visited by more than 5 groups it was very hard to move in between the stalls. This was compounded by people idling around in the market chatting to their friends while waiting for their turn to enter a stall.
At the start of their market it was a really good idea to use the hallway outside of "The Pit". Before entering the hallway, the requirement of having the "Market of Impossible Things" added to your snapchat friends list as well as having to take photos of the stalls throughout the market and then uploaded onto their "campus story". This was successful in a way, as I found that, having to take photos of every single stall became hard for us, especially because we were one of the last groups to enter the market, because of the allocated time slot our group was supposed to enter at, as well as us as market goers, we wanted to experience all of the stalls however there wasn't enough time and the wait for some stalls were a lot longer than others. An example of a stall that had a long wait time was the one which was of an airline, that offered us an experience of going to the moon. The wait time was particularly long for this stall as we were told to sign up on a sheet of paper with our name and our phone number, after we had signed up we were told that we would receive a text when it was our turn, we waited close to 20 minutes and were seeing the market pack up, with no text saying it was our turn to enter the stall, we decided to leave. A stall that I found was quite successful was the cloning stall, as it was the second stall in the market, their location was right next to the entrance of the market which made it really easy in terms of market goers visiting their stall, the process of cloning was quite fast as well, as you only needed to sit down on a chair and face towards the camera for a quick photo.
Flore:
The Market of Impossible Things started on Level C in Block 12 and lead into 'the pit'. At the Entrance there were cautions signs that took us through the health and safety. Also before going into the pit we were given a sugar pill. these two encounters were really well approached at making it seem futuristic. I was really excited to see what they had come up with. When inside the pit there was a tea section and also a cloning stop where you got your photo taken and would see it at the end of the market. You also got given a glow in the dart wrist band to wear. The pit was really well decorated to the theme of futurist and mysterious. Continuing though the market went pretty quickly except for two stall that had a long line. Overall I think they worked well with the safe they had but the down falls of this market where the difference in time between each market stall as some only took a couple of minutes and others took way longer to even get to and then go through the experience. also another disappointing factor was their timing. We were told to come at 11 but by the time it was our turn to go in they had run out of items for example, space on the wall for us to draw on or the market slowly was being taken down as we were still going through the market.
Group Reflection:
Although we really enjoyed the market, we found the timing unorganised, we were supposed to be in the market at 11.15 but were asked to go at 10.30 (we weren't prepared at this time.) Also, the market was quite empty by this point, and so our experience was quite different to the experience that the first groups that went through would've had.
The air hostess stall (sorry we forgot to write down their offical name) was really really slow compared to the other stalls. We went through the rest of the market in about 15 minutes, but we were waiting over 25 minutes just for that one last stall. It got to the point where other stalls had begun packing up before they'd even gotten to us, so we ended up leaving and missing out completely.
The layout of the stalls was really good too, we loved full use of space in the pit and how they used the high ceilings to add to the spacious feel and impossible feel. All the stalls were exceptionally well costumed which added to the whole overall success of the market. The stalls all flowed together well and there were none that suck out of place and seemed different to the others. Overall we felt it was a really well organised and well put together market. Aside from the timing issues on the day we thought there was a lot of good preparation put into the quality stalls which was really influential to how we reviewed it.
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