Post-Presentation Feedback and Self Reflection (Project Brief 3 pt2)

The main piece of advice I received in respect to this project brief was that my presentation needed to explore a sense of location more effectively.

Indeed, it is true, perhaps the need for explicit explanation of location was lacking from my representative artefact. My intention for the world was for an urban setting. In fact, naming a specific city, in my opinion, seemed immaterial – similar to how in a screen world, “jungle” can be used without specifying a specific jungle and the narrative can still effectively operate within it. Indeed insofar as it informs the world, I wanted the urban setting to simply imbue the screen world with a sense of cold atomization and greed. I did not however, wish for the character of a specific city to inform how my world would be. However, as can be seen in my artefact, I did gravitate towards using the New York City skyline (as betrayed by the Empire State Building) for the view from Tony Becher’s apartment simply because of its archetypical status among cities.

 

In self-reflection, one of the main issues I saw with my own presentation was that due to the events surrounding it, it took on a frantic tone; a tone not present during my practice rehearsals. Of course I was supplied with the full 3 minutes, but unfortunately, I seem to have lost some of my cool. This wasn’t due to the positioning of the time slot (indeed I purposefully negotiated to receive  the last spot) but I think it was the result of a growing fear that I might not get the opportunity to present the work I had exerted much effort on. So it was a shaken state in which I entered into my speech and this, I think in retrospect had dramatic impact on the pacing. Indeed, my main self-criticism is allowing myself to speak in a tone that seemed like I was simply trying to say as much as I could within the time frame. This contrasted with my practice runs, and thus forms a slight feeling of regret at my inability to simply concentrate on the fact that I had no less time than I had planned for, only frantic before and after events.

So this forms my mains constructive self criticism in terms of the presentation I made; that I should have focused more on the presentation, and remembered to speak fully and not frantically.

Another aspect in which I felt my presentation lacked, was neglecting to mention the multitude of crime dramas that this film may be similar to or influenced by. However, perhaps the reason for this is that my world, at least at a conscious level, was not influenced by these, but instead by a personal interest in gems and a number of documentaries I had seen on the topic of the diamond trade.

With this feedback and self reflection in mind, I am well equipped to understand how I should build my current artefact into one suitable for our next project brief.

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