In this week’s studio, we had to present the videos we made for assignment two to the class. Since we worked on this as a group, we presented them together, excluding Lyreca as she wasn’t able to come.

This is my third time presenting in this studio. After all, one of the main goal of this studio is to have us be confident in showcasing our works to people, talk about it and answering any potential questions. I have to say I was more comfortable talking this time compared to my first two presentations. To be fair, it was also because I wasn’t presenting alone.

Besides just showing the class the videos that we made, we had to talk about our inspirations and actually explain the creative process behind it. As one of the two people in charge of the “word and portrait” video, I explained how I got the inspiration, which is a simple, studio-style type of videos, showing a video of Hiho Kids as a reference. I further talked about the editing process, how we divided the workload and what we did in the video that we showed, how we came up with the ideas of saying “I love You” in different languages, how we struggled and encountered problems during filming and just working together as a group. Both Pavina and Patrick also did well in expressing their thoughts on the videos and explain the creative process behind them.

As with all presentation, we received feedback as well as questions regarding our work from our tutor. He asked why didn’t we change the green screen to a different background, or if we actually make use of the lighting setups in the studio, all of which we give our reasons. While as for the feedback, it was pretty positive, as he was pretty happy with the videos, but more so the fact that we actually put an effort in trying to shoot in a studio and borrowing equipment from the techies. When we talk about the problem we had on set, he told us it was common and that in those situation, we shouldn’t panic to be able to figure out a way.

So in the end, l was glad that the presentation went well. We did our parts in giving the talk and answering questions, and received some valuable feedback. Interestingly, it wasn’t scary, sometimes even fun, like when we explain the process and struggles that we had to go through. Thus, I learned that presentation isn’t actually as scary as I thought it was, and that all we had to do was do some preparation so we know what to say and just relax and have fun.