Overall, I feel that it was hard to for me and Guy to create
a presentation by ourselves, considering that the other DoP’s were not
presenting with us unlike other groups. I feel that whilst we had a lot that we
could talk about from our experiences, we were very limited on what we could do
in the length of presentation and what we could offer to our audience. I feel
that our Power Point presentations were good and offered examples of famous DoP’s
and whether any of our audience could guess what films they’ve been a
cinematographer for; whilst a lot of people couldn’t guess what films, it was
interesting to see how most DoP’s are over looked. In our presentation, I and
Guy talked about our experiences separately. As Guy talked about the challenges
he faced during his time as a DoP, I created a Power Point presentation to talk
about my filming experience, what I was reasonable for, what I did and how I
worked with other members of my crew. I gave an example of our shoot and one of
my favourite pages from my storyboard for ‘Hide and Seek’. Our presentation
didn’t last very long as there was only an extent of what we could talk about and
we felt that our activity (the DoP quiz) didn’t work very well.
In hindsight, it would have been better to begin planning
the presentation earlier on with Guy and arranging to use equipment from the
Academy. It seemed to us later on that it would have been good to borrow a
camera, tripod and hdmi cable so that we could create an activity where we
could engage with our audience by setting up a mini work shop of shot styles,
how to shoot and how to set up the camera and how this would be the DoP’s
responsibility during a shoot. This would have been far better than the quiz
that we had created and would have worked better considering how we were
talking about experiences and how we shot on our shoots.
Despite all of this, we created a questionnaire so that we
could ask our audience members at the end whether they found our presentation
useful or not. Most of our feedback was positive as most stated that they found
it useful however did not give or felt that they learnt anything specific about
our role that they already didn’t know before. On our feedback, I also found it
was interesting that someone mentioned that it would have been nice to have
more information about the famous DoP’s in our quiz, which I agree as I and Guy
found them as inspirations, it would have been interesting to learn as much as
possible about them and present their works and why their highly regarded DoP’s
to our audience. Other feedback mostly stated that they would have felt it
would be better if there were more activates during the presentation as the
quiz didn’t work very well, which both me and Guy agreed with as our quiz didn’t
last very long and our audience that we were presenting it to didn’t completely
understand why these DoP’s were famous. Considering this, these are all notes
on how I can improve creative presentations in the future. Other than that, our presentation went to plan and we were pleased with our positive feedback.
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