Peer discussion

I had an intensive meeting with two MA rpt students today, we discussed the PGD presentation. The general feedback on my plan was to create broader brushstrokes, less detailed, less about influences, much more about my journey.

It was suggested that 20 slides maximum would be enough. I could show the most recent work, then work back to front. The first slide could be the hand screwing up paper (my first test) so it show the mistakes and humble beginnings from whence I came! the last slide could show my recent work against the first attempts.

More should be made of the enthusiasm and passion I feel about the work, less about spoonfeeding information to the audience. One of the students said the presentation was too 'teachy'. It needs to be edited quite ruthlessly and show more about what I learned from one animation to the next piece. For example, show animation 1, explain what I had to learn to accomplish it, then show animation 2, what is still left to learn?

The other students were progressing on with further tests and mock ups of their work and were not concerned about the PGD presentation at all. I am becoming irritated by the PGD phase and desperate to get on with animation tests. It will be prudent to have a break from this and move back onto it after a week.