Professional Practices Assignment 2:Reactions to the class presentations

The class presentations on our work all seemed to go fairly smoothly. The issues I found with the presentations seemed to all be very basic ones.  Many of the presenters needed to speak louder and with a bit more confidence. Many of the presenters had images that did not portray their work in the best possible way (ie: poor lighting, poor focus, need for cropping). Some of the presentations contained slides that seemed awkwardly cluttered with images.

            That said no individual presentation stuck out as anything less than good. All of the presentations had a decent flow of ideas culminating in the current work. Some organized their work by media while others seem to have organized their work more chronologically. Both methods seemed to be effective. Any major jumps in the work were smoothed out well by the accompanying information by the presenters.

            Some people opted to include images of the artists who influenced them. I thought this was a very good idea. At times however the execution and placement of those images was confusing or less constructive to their point.  Rather than talking about all of one’s influences at once, a presenter might do better to bring them up throughout the presentation as their influences apply to the work being shown.