Task No.1 - Digital Video Editing Team Presentation

In our lecture we were briefed on a team presentation and placed into groups in which we would choose and work on a selected area of choice.

When our group had joined we all decided that our chosen subject was Digital Video Editing, i was pleased to find that everyone within the group all had ideas to put forward and were all enthusiastic to produce a good presentation. 

In this session we created a presentation structure including all the areas we thought had to be covered, once we had created the structure we believed the best way to research was to allocate sections to each group member. From this; each individual could go away and research there section and then combine it at our next group meeting. We also decided on a time and place of our next group meeting where we would cultivate all our research and apply it to a power point presentation, as we thought this would display our information best. At this point I was really confident that each group member would find some strong reliable information to include in their section.

When the research was completed we met again and had a group discussion about how successful and affective our research had been before actually setting to creating the power point itself. Everyone was enthusiastic with what they had found. This was particularly helpful as everyone in our group was comfortable with presenting and speaking to an audience. I was also very confident in that our team was working very well with one another which made the whole dynamics of the team stronger.

We then set about the task of creating the power-point, which surprisingly didn't take allot of time at all, I think this was because we were very clear about what all of us wanted from the beginning; making the creation an easier task. We all also created a hard copy version of what we were going to say, giving us something to refer to which I think was a good suggestion.

When it came to presenting our subject I was very happy with how our presentation was received as everyone of us spoke strongly of our section. We were also the only group to complete a presentation on Digital Video Editing, and i believe this contributed to how we kept the audiences attention.  The only thing i would say i was disappointed with was that i had forgotten to speak about a particularly big figure in the origin of film editing, but i will be sure to run over my information more thoroughly next time.

Overall i thought this task was thoroughly enjoyable, it gave me the chance to meet other students in the module, have an insight into how they would approach this task and for me particularly i had the opportunity to generate further experience in presenting to an audience; which i haven't done much of before but hope to improve on in the future.