week_4 pracA_presentation

Last Wednesday we all did the presentation in front of the whole class. I‘m not happy with my performance because I think I forgot to mention many important features of my design. I've been prepared this for days and kept the scripts in mind, but I was still nervous when I was actually presenting to so many people. I remembered that I was trying my best to avoid any eye contact with the audience during the presentation. 

It was my first presentation using English and I thought I'm just not that confident. I can chat with others smoothly, but giving a 'long' speech or talking alone is not my strength. I do need more practice.

Well, another reason might be equally important as well. I was so tired that day as I spent the whole night in the lab the day before because there was something wrong with the lab Macs and it deleted all my files of another assignment due the same day. I had to stay there the whole night to deal with it. It's an accident and I do think I won't come across this situation again.

Other people all did their presentation quite good. I particularly love one of the ideas which is called 'past and present'  and all my 3 votes went to it. The idea was pretty simple, the author intended to retrieve the old pictures such as advertising posters on the newspapers from Trove and compared them with the nowadays posters of the same topic, which might generate all sorts of emotions like fun or moving. I think it was interesting and thought-provoking. Besides, I really like the posters made by Leila, the color scheme, as well as the way to structure and present the information of her 'animal' idea. She is such a brilliant graphic designer.