So i did my presentation! It went quite well, now i have to explain WWW and EBI.
(H)- Women in comics
Firstly, EBI.
1.The videos on my presentation played, then just seemed to stop. I have no idea why, but i need to brush up a bit more on my power point presentations, this was a unlucky. But everyone seemed to get the general idea.
2.Which i have mentioned before, about Tokyology. I hadn't identified exactly what conventions i wanted from it, i just had a general idea. It was pleasing to watch and very active with visuals, but i didn't explain this (verbally) in my presentation, so i have done it in the last few posts before this. The general feel is what i really wanted people to understand, but this just isn't good enough, it needed to be explained in terms of conventions and sound.
3. I also need to think a little more about my ancillary tasks, (although we will be doing them later) and it's just been clarified that it's supposed to be a newspaper advertisement and a feature article, so i will have to work on the feature article bit more, i have a good idea for the ad.
4. I also want to do a little more research, my teacher didn't mention this as a 'must' because i have a focus, (Batgirl) which i will be doing a lot of research into, but it would be good.
5. Our teacher wanted us to explain three ideas. I only clearly went into two, the third idea i just touched on (comics culture) but i hope to incorporate it into my documentary anyway. However i did mention all my ideas at the beginning.
-I do believe that's the most of it, but still liable to change. (Picture above; some imagery of Oracle, showing her in distress. This doesn't actually happen in the issue, but they have chosen to show her this way. Something i found amusing- The batman symbol on the memory stick.)
Now, on to WWW.
1. I covered, i think, everything that needed to be addressed in the presentation.
2. My definition of a documentary was a good base to work on.
3. Presentation skills quite good. e.g. reading from board/speaking to audience, balance of visuals and text, relevant information, clear explanations, showing skills (links/videos/moving images etc.).
4. I had my focus, which was the main problem.
5. TA- comic fans/feminists, was a good target, because i wanted to get a larger audience. I also rated my documentary as a PG, which would also get me that larger audience.
Targets to improve:
-So yes, improve on power point presentations, to ensure that they will work.
-Analyse more and get the point. Explain/example/expand.
-Timing! I took too long, so i need to think about this, and try to do better to control the length of my presentations.
-I also need to think about my ancillary tasks more thoroughly.
There is more i think, i will need to improve on this. Now, i need to do some peer assessment of other peoples presentations. I think im going to look at who's i have the most notes on.
(M)- Islamaphobia
-I thought he had a very interesting idea, it would make a good documentary. The title explains it's self really, it's about why people look so negatively on Islam.
-He explained things thoroughly, so i understood what he wanted and how he wanted to construct it. However looking at his actual presentation skills, he wasn't really engaging. The explanations, although thorough, were a little too long, more imagery could have been used to illustrate his ideas more.
-He had a good list of conventions that i hadn't had in my presentation, so that was very interesting and informative, and gave us a good idea of how he wanted to go about things.
-He had information about how people viewed Islamic culture which was also very interesting material to use, very relevant.
-The biggest problem i found with this however was with footage. He wanted to show footage of violence based on his topic, and he wanted to go about this by showing other clips, so not actually stuff he's caught on camera himself. This i think this posed a problem, it would be difficult to find something like that himself.
-His overall plan was quiet good. He wanted to film in mosques, so he had locations, he addressed music. He talked about having rock music in his documentary as well as Islamic, the explanation to this was because it's what the soldiers in Iraq listen too when they are fighting. This was interesting but i don't think that the audience watching would have understood this. He also addressed fonts, that suited his subject.
-He didn't really have developed storyboards, so this could have been improved.
(Picture above was some imagery he found later on Islamaphobia. It has a big impact, showing how Islamic people are labeled in people's minds, that it might as well be written all over their faces, and it's written in newspaper cutouts, which could be saying that it's the media's fault for, promoting it, lets say. It's effective because it's brings things into light, and gets your attention.)
(M)- Skateboard culture
-This idea was very original.
-She addressed locations, two skater parks where she could film. She talked about TA also, and how she would attract them.
-She did research on Documentaries, and had a good enough understanding of them to base her idea around and start the planning/research process.
-She thought that showing clips of the skaters doing tricks with an accompanied voice over/music would be a good way to fill the time, and i also though this, it would have been interesting. She showed us some clips of what kind of things she would film skaters doing, which looked very impressive, she got her idea from some other documentaries she looked at, so she had identified conventions. She had a good balance of imagery and text, and her powerpoint was interesting to view.
-She could have explained things a little more clearly but we got the idea about what she wanted.
-The music she was talking about using really seemed to fit with her subject, as a part of skateboarding culture.
-She was missing a storyboard however, which was the main down side.
-EBI she had a clear idea of what she wanted to talk about specifically in her 5 minutes. She did cover all three ideas, but she didn't mention whether she wanted to either (a) follow a skateboarder and base the documentary on them, or (b) talk about their culture in general. She did eventually pick (a), which we as a class agreed was a much better idea. But she would need to be careful, and consider the reliability of the person in question.
(Picture above; she talked about tony hawk as a good example of someone who has made a career of skateboarding.)
(R)- Street art
-Again, she talked about her ideas, they were 'Street art' and a band called 'Watershed'. It was mostly focused on 'Watershed' but with a short class review she decided it was better to go with street art. This subject is also quite unique and interesting.
-The most impressive thing here was the tech that she used to do her presentation, which ran on Flash (I'll get the exact name from her). It had great transition effects, zooming into a corner of the screen where we could see the details of what was actually there. The motion was very fluid and visually pleasing to watch.
-She had a storyboard that illustrated what she wanted to show, although it wasn't too developed, there could have been a bigger rang of angles, which would have been better. She talked about locations, for example, filming at a live gig.
-She talked about music, what fitted her genre. She talked about Loius Theroux, which i myself will also be looking into later.
-She went into good detail about her ancillary tasks, her idea's were very creative and interesting.
-However i think she could have had a little more research in her presentation, i felt that it was lacking just a little in this.
(Picture above; and example i believe she used in her presentation, it's good example of what kind of street art she was talking about. The figure is a royal guard who appears to be peeing on a wall, it's funny and controversial, but luckily for him, he's not real.)I think that's mostly it, i'll have to double check with my teacher and come back to this, but these are my WWW's and EBI's of their work and my own.
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