Start, Stop, Continue

Start:

- I think that I should start assimilating into the crowd more. These would include pretending to be an audience member, and I feel as though this would be effective because it would make the audience feel as though I am just one of them.

-Another thing I want to start doing is make an interactive presentation. This could have been getting AI alerts on the screen as part of my Prezi to show the effectiveness of that app. This would go well with the presentation since it is silly but at the same time shows how well the app can actually work.

-One think I should start doing is take a muscle relaxer before a presentation to see if I calm down more. When up there I feel as though I come off as agitated. Sometimes it works to my advantage and shows me too passionate about what I’m taking about but I feel as though I trip up to much because of it.

-Lastly what I want to start doing is wearing company shirts, I watched more shark tank and realized a lot of the time they are wearing a $5 T- Shirt that represents their company.

Stop:

-I really would like to stop editing till the last minute. Although the video exceeded my own expectation and was liked more than I imagined, I felt stressed because I kept going back and changing things in the video, kept editing. Maybe if I started the edit earlier I wouldn’t have been so stressed out.

-I need to stop leaving during everyone’s presentation. I’m worried that people take offense to that, even though when I leave it’s to sooth my nerves. Often I leave and use the restrooms, go out and vape or walk around to shake my nervousness.

-Another think I want to stop doing would have to be fiddling with my fucking hands the whole dam presentation. I try to play it off as though I am lost in thought but you know after looking at it shows I am stressing about something. I wouldn’t want to listen to someone super stressed out and neither does anyone else.

-Lastly what I would like to stop doing is staying up at night working on all aspects of the presentation. I was exaughsted by the time it was my groups turn to present and I felt at some levels it really showed in the way I presented in regards to posture and stance. I even had dark circles under my eyes.

Continue:

I want to continue to make videos for my presentation. All around I got compliments on the humor and editing of the video and felt that it showed the product idea and also it grabbed the attention of the audience.

I want to continue to practice acting because I feel as though public speaking is a form of acting. You take on a persona to represent an idea and you just go for it.

I want to continue tp dress up for presentations for it just gives a good video and it makes the audience view you as important.

I want to continue to push the idea of society because when you break norms it cause people to focus their attention to the norm that has been broken.

I want to continue to identify conventions of a genre since it helps me break it down and understand it. For this project, breaking down the convention of Shark Tank (the genre) really helped me structure both the video and presentation itself.

Moves of other groups:

The dump group killed it with the PTA meeting. All of the different kind of parents portrayed can be seen in any Carpinteria PTA meeting and I really enjoyed watching the present. Also McCool took on the role as a concerned mother well and executed it well.

TarOff was another successful group. They defintley addressed the problem and it was informative. The scary video that mocked horror movie trailers was a good idea and the tar genie was very funny.

The CEO of Trax was very convincning and that opening video was fucking savage. I felt bad because it felt like a kid was missing in the back of some weirdo’s van and I don’t like weirdos. Over all it was a good presentation but a controversial idea.

Moves:

The dropping of the picture frame – powerful

The PTA parents- funny but informative

Tar genie and the hotel owner – funny and illustrated the idea well