Self Evaluation -- TAKEN (2008) Presentation

What Went Well ..

I had decided to do a presentation analysing the film Taken 2008. My PowerPoint presentation included 7 slides, with plenty of pictures and text and a background summary made by me on each of the points whilst analysing the movie in front of my class. Whilst presenting, I liked the overall atmosphere and the attitude of the audience as they were carefully listening to what I was saying, deeply following through with my presentation. This also helped me because with such an audience I was not so nervous and was more able to perform freely.

After I had finished my presentation I received feedback from each member of the class, including the teacher, on the good points about my presentation and performance, and on contrast I received the negative points about my presentation and performance.

Whilst the audience kept giving feedback, I recorded down my goods and bad.
Like average, my PowerPoint was set in these 6 categories: Writers and Film Directors, Film Institution, Film Genre, Film Audience, Representation and the Narrative of the film. It was then discussed by the class that in my presentation, that the amount of information and my performance on the explanation of the Film Institution was clearly my strongest category of all.

According to my class mates, the information given to them by me about the Film Institution for Taken 2008 was very understandable and had a lot of simplicity. In terms of performance, they liked the way I showed plenty of eye contact and also engaging them by ask a question or 2. They also commented that I spoke loud and clear and that there wasn’t any mumbling involved. In addition to that, they stated that on my final words, the liked the way I was giving them extra feedback on the film. In other words, not only did I analyse the film in front of my class, but I also persuasively advised them to go ahead and watch the film Taken.

Even Better If ..

After growing some feedback on the positive points about my presentation, I clearly received feedback on how to improve my work or even better if, due to my negative points. For my first feedback and advice, I was told not to apply so much text on my presentation, as in most cases the audience may find it a little boring having to pay more attention trying to read of the board rather than focusing the attention on me the performer. So that meant that in order to replace the text, more bullets points or even images were a wiser choice than a whole load of writing.

Secondly, although my tone of voice was good, my body language was not so good. I was told that applying a little more movement does not only show that you are lively and awake about the performance, but also that besides the audience, I should be enjoying my own presentation too. I was also told that there wasn’t enough information shown on certain categories and that a little more media terminology should have been used whilst analysing the film.

In Conclusion ..

Getting all this feedback from my teacher and my class mates, I was able to understand my weakness and learn how to better improve them. Of course it makes me feel good hearing about all the positive points about my work, and aspects like that give me more confidence into doing better next time. I have learned that whilst doing presentations, it is best to show a lot of simplicity on the display and use a lot more images rather than text, this way it is eye catching to the audience and it gives more of a chance to engage to the audience by looking at them more and showing more enthusiasm rather than reading of the board.

Overall, I know that I have gained a huge knowledge about how to make and perform a presentation, and know I feel that my presentational skills have improved a huge scale. The reasons for this, is not only because I was able to receive information on what I could improve on, but also looking and investigating other people’s presentations made me realise and pick up on stuff such as different types of media terminology that I didn’t quite use on my own presentation.