Oral reflection

Overall, I think my oral presentation was somewhat solid. I felt that I spoke clearly and at a good pace. However, I think I definitely struggled to find things to say or stumbled over a few words, leading to a lot of pauses and ums in the recording. While my presentation was well ordered and stuck to the list we talked about in class the day prior, I think I was a little disorganized while speaking, and felt I hadn’t prepared enough notes for the actual oral. Near the end of the presentation, I began to run out of things to say and tried to come up with some points to make to fill up the time, which led to the cohesiveness of the overall project to fall apart a little at the end.

Another fallacy of mine was that I definitely did not expand on the synopsis of my adaptive scene enough. While my notes did include a small summary of the scene, I instead spoke much too briefly on the performance, and only realized I had when I started talking about specific actions or purposes of some scenes after the fact. I am unsure why I skipped over this, but I hope the actual recording of the scene will be enough to make up for it.

A big failure on my part was my inadequacy to properly prepare beforehand. I had a draft on Tuesday morning that seriously lacked in all departments, length, direction, detail, and so on. Having a real draft by that time would’ve allowed me to be more confident today and better organized or practiced once it was time for the real presentation. However, listening to the practice orals yesterday in class definitely helped me think of things to say today, and I’d probably be much worse off without it.