I supervised a pitch group that included 1 other 4th year, a 3rd year, a 2nd year and 2 1st years. There was a wide range of different work, styles, approaches and competencies.
By and large I congratulated the other students on the amount and quality of work already done by week 4. I tried to think about where I was at that stage in each year and considered what kind of feedback would have helped me. One of the main pieces of advice was to be more thorough in research and to investigate more lines of development before settling on a final design, showing clear evidence of this research and development in sketchbook and other work. I tried to get across that this was important not just for the grading but also to improve the quality and context of the final product. I also recommended that they do not slow down in their work rate and that if they were at all unsure of any aspect, they email or arrange to talk to their tutor and sort it out as soon as possible.
At times it was difficult to think of suitable criticism on areas I had not really worked in much myself but tried to give general advice and encouragement. I also made sure to ask questions about any part of their work I was not sure about so as to know better how to help them.
At times I benefited from prompting from the supervising lecturer on areas that students needed to improve on which helped a lot. I think I could maybe have been better at involving the other students in critiquing work and aim to come up with a better plan for this area for next session.
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