Thursday was a continuation of presentations for our game concepts. Similar to Tuesday, it was more critiquing of our presentations. I think the second round of people who presented had more confidence in their presentation, possibly from preparations or taking note towards what people had critiqued to others on Tuesday. There was one presentation that seemed to get a bit of argument from one of the students. The student had criticized the presenter for having been too sarcastic about his game but he hadn't been. He had been trying to use humor to keep the audience interested. But it was later though that the student critiquing was being criticized for his own way of critiquing for it had been... rude. His order of words certainly made a difference.
When it had reached my turn to present, I had been quite nervous. However, I took the time to try and write down what I had planned on saying the previous night. Though there were quite a bit that I missed on explaining my game concept that I had wished I had explained but when questions came around, I was able to explain it a tad more. I remembered when one student asked something, I remembered crossing my legs without realizing it. No one had pointed out my stance since my presentation had finished but I had felt the need to guard myself against this student's question. So I learned that I should probably try to avoid doing.
Another thing that I learned from Thursday's set of presentations was choices of words to use to ending your speech. A simple "Thank you" or a "Thank you for your time" was enough rather than "Any questions? Comments?" which I sometimes also find myself doing for other presentations. It's something sometimes one would forget when someone is nervous.
The second part of the class was dedicated to creative briefs. There were several examples he showed us but basically it would describe things such as how you would want your audience to feel, think, know or do. Jimmy mentioned that when he would do briefs, he would first meet with his clients then write it out, then show the brief to the client and the client would change a few things, send it back, you edit it and it basically becomes a contract. This is certainly very important to remember because I had a friend who had graduated with a degree in animation. So she doesn't really know the design process but she's a very talented artist and can creatively come up with a good design through her artist skills. She had worked under a company who basically screwed her over because there had never been any contract. So this information is definitely something I'd always remember especially after hearing about such a bad experience from a very good friend.
Adjectives:
Succinctly - to express with little amount of words
Dowdy - lacking style; plainly dressed
Effervescent - highly enthusiastic
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