So I’ve gotten some feedback from my presentation. Personally, I thought it went quite well, although about half of the audience were either asleep or distracted before I even started presenting. I went through all of the feedback, and tallied it below:
Now I know that the feedback sheets didn’t use the exact wording, but I tallied based on the meaning of what was written. Some of the feedback I’m fine with, but some was a little bit unfair or unusual. One in particular got me; it said that I didn’t show any 16-bit art in my presentation. I loaded my custom character sprites into my presentation, so I’m not entirely sure what they’re on about. This may have been due to the length of my presentation, as I also noticed that some people were lost or distracted around half-way through.
The audience noted that I had good presentation, communication, and body language skills as well as an interesting concept and content, however it came across as quite negative. Some people even said that my project presentation was “over-detailed”. To an extent, I can agree with this. I tried not to put too much into the presentation, and was constantly cutting bits out; maybe I should have cut some more out, or rebalanced what I had? The other thing that would have helped is if I had timed my presentation beforehand.
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