Personal Project 20.01.2020

Today we conducted our presentations for our personal projects, where we were presenting our concepts to the rest of the group, in order to allow for peer evaluations later. This didn’t go entirely to plan, from my personal perspective, as my peer, Georgina Hill, who went before me produced a presentation that was too similar to my own for my personal liking despite working completely separately. I feel this is due to having very similar work styles and ethics, but resulted in my not feeling confident enough to present my PowerPoint presentation as I was concerned it would look like we had built them together (which is obviously not the case). I made the impromptu decision to improvise my entire presentation and demonstration on the fly, as I felt I could get away with this. However, I do not feel as if this was necessarily my best strategy, as I was uncomfortable from the start, and was further able to be shaken by the questioning as I felt as if it was obvious to everyone that I was improvising. On reflection, it would probably have been more sensible to just present what I had prepared, without worrying about it looking similar to my peers as I would have felt a lot more confident and less on edge throughout the whole thing. Having said this, despite the improvisation, I feel I did deliver a relatively adequate presentation of my project so far, and I have learned not to be so concerned about the work others are producing, because this is just a projection of my insecurities rather than a reflection on my work.

Below is a video of the PowerPoint presentation that I had originally planned to present in today's session;

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/c5ea5d_cc957fdfa3a545bf85e0d3fd9c8776c7/1080p/mp4/file.mp4