Creative Collaboration: Presentation and Evaluation

So our project is finished and today we present under assessment conditions to Annabeth the results of it.

I have been planning our presentation alongside everything else such as the completion of our animation, the editing of the making of video and making sure everyone knowing what they are meant to be doing in my group. I took down notes from a conversation with Annabeth about the mandatory essentials that must be included within our presentation:

Myself, Matei and Alice drafted up who was to say what in our presentation and then added in a few more aspects of our project that were to be included within our presentation:

Since writing up that plan I have been doing the majority of the editing for the making of video so my time has mainly been consumed by that process. However I am now beginning to start on our presentation. Luckily a lot of this work is simply remembering the right parts to include and locating the necessary work out of the hundreds of files this project has accumulated.

Later on today I shall write up how our presentation went as well as the overall evaluation of our project. Presentation: I made notes as mental queues for presenting our presentation. These were mainly influenced by parts of the Making Of script and my blog notes.

These are the slides from our presentation:

We managed to use all 15 minutes of our presentation and got through the whole slide show with the evaluation presented by all four of us, showing our four different perspectives. It was interesting to see how many of my teammates agreed with my evaluation. The quick feedback we got from Annabeth provided us with some good praise. She commemorated us on not relying on slide to read off and actually having notes and queue cards and for using the art boards made by Alice and Matei:

I was pleased with our presentation and glad that in this one instance of our project the speaking parts feel evenly distributed. Evaluation: There have been plenty of times over the course of this project where I feared as to whether we would get this done with the amount of time we had. And there were plenty of times where I felt the pressure of picking up the pieces or filling in the gaps of where the project had become, in my eyes, unorganised or frankly apathetic. I'm overall pleased that we have a finished project but I know it could be so much more. I'm glad we have something for submission but I want to definitely take this project further, in an extra curricular setting for submission to the actual creative conscience competition. This would mean working with Heald Place Primary School and i'd be happy to pursue that goal with the teammates I think worked really well with over this project.

I am cautious however to leave behind working with friends as teammates in future, as I feel that it has lead to some negativity in this project. Sometimes that can't be helped but it can be avoided in future. I've enjoyed having an influential role in this project because I do feel like I have been a decision maker and good organiser of my team. This is reassuring for me as this is a role I wish to see myself in more and more, over the projects to come in future, as I feel as though directional positions are what I wish to go into within the professional world. On the other hand I am very much aware of the fact that I played a large role in the art direction and pre-production side of this task. In future I would like for this to not solely rely upon myself to produce the majority of the production bible but I must also take some responsibility in that perhaps I take too much control sometimes and have to trust some of my teammates more when giving them roles to see through. That is not to say I have been the only one doing work, I know that some of my fellow teammates have worked just as hard as me. I feel we have now all discussed privately what has gone wrong and given each other transparency on how we felt; of which I am glad to have had the experience. Not all of this has been a struggle though and in conclusion, I'd like to say that there have been more instances than not of us all being on the same creative page, consistently. This has resulted in achieving an idea of what we set out to create. I've learned a great deal from this creative experience.