Oral Reflection

Overall I felt that my oral went better than I expected it to go, although I did have a lot of mistakes and bumps through my process. This project was very fun to complete, and I really enjoyed going out of my comfort zone to complete a task that made me analyze the characters. I am usually pretty good at reflections, and I enjoy doing them, but the oral was much more difficult for me than the actual performance. I think this was more difficult because of time management, and planning. It was hard for me to pre-plan what I was going to say, since I would have rather liked to just talk. During my oral I was so caught up in the requirements for it, that I was slipping up, and having to catch myself during other ideas. It didn't feel natural to me, since I wrote everything I wanted to say prior, and then had to break it down into notes, and remember the whole original idea from the note. I think it is important to reflect and break down my work, but I don't feel that this oral gave me a better understanding of my project. Speaking about it and trying to justify everything made my ideas more confusing to me.

My partner and I really didn't block our piece or movements, we did almost everything naturally. This probably made our scene stagnant, but we moved by what we were saying to each other. Having to go back and justify this was harder than I thought it would be, and that is where I struggled the most with my oral. I was not able to fully grasp relating my movements back to character development or my ideas without feeling like I was going out of the 'performance' topic of my oral. I enjoyed speaking about the technical part of my work, and how my ideas formed though, which helped me to understand how I could have improved on my story. If I were to do this over again, I would give myself more time to plan. It was difficult for me to do my oral over, since the first one accidentally got deleted. I feel like this was a good learning experience for me to understand how the oral presentations work, and what I can do next time to improve.