Today’s studio was the big presentation day for project 3, Errol and I presented our work first and were very satisfied with the outcome. I think the use of visual aids was helpful in demonstrating how we journeyed from our case study to our final probe and I also tried to include as much context as possible so that the presentation could be understood easily by the audience (as per the focus of our first few studios). We received lots of helpful feedback which informed how we improved the presentation for the panel presentation the following Monday. Mainly, it was important that we show a linear video version of the narrative sequence Errol navigated in order to contextualise how it may have altered during discussion of other online tools and services. In addition, display of a quick screenshot of each sketch would also be very useful in demonstrating how the practice varied across the variety of tools and services, as well as help the audience understand what we did exactly. Furthermore, we needed to provide visual aid regarding the case study in order to anchor the entire exploration back to its origin. Finally, more work needed to be done to determine why we were most interested in the Periscope sketch in terms of our probe and what it will do for us for project 4.

Reflecting upon today’s presentation, it is clear that it is vital to portray our discoveries and intentions as simplistic as possible. Rather than become overwhelmed by unnecessary use of terminology, it is more valuable to be able to communicate your thoughts in a succinct and tangible manner. Secondly, it is now clear that a large part of the presenting process is a chance for us to demonstrate reasons for particular actions. e.g. Why we did particular things, why we took particular pathways, why we think certain elements are more important than others and why we are choosing to progress from here the way we are. Most importantly, when presenting future explorations we need to ensure not to get caught up in the technology that surrounds the example of online video practice, but rather focus more specifically on the narrative/non-narrative form. This was of course still prominent in our presentation, however exploration of form needed to be honed in on even more closely in order to progress toward making a potential prototype that consists of a hybrid form of video practice disregarding technological influence.