Feedback notes for television group

Overall the presentation was really well done and it covered the subject well. The group was small, so they each had to work hard for this, but on the other hand that helped them to stay in the time-frame and give out a cohesive presentation, that was interesting and fun to watch.

Krista started the day with a introduction video. We thought the introduction video was more effective than someone talking through it. It had all the main points you would expect to hear in the beginning of a presentation and it was a really nice pick. The Follow up slides were concise and relevant- no repetition of what was in the video but still maybe a little long. Visually the slides were really good. It was good that it was summarised by decade in general, it helped us listeners to see the main points. Krista did a great job! Presentations like this are a very difficult thing to do. Krista also gave a good presentation to the audience- wasn’t scripting.

After Krista, Dita continued with her part of the presentation. She also had good, clear presentation slides and she was a very good speaker. Her interactiveness with audience- question and answer, discussion was great and kept people awake the whole time. At some point she rushed through the slides a little too fast, but the information was all valid and still clear to the audience. Dita had very nice use of video and slides and discussion in her part. We would like to have discussed more genres and target audiences (even though they were in the game task). Sometimes she had hard time getting people involved, but that's the audience's fault. But, if you have a problem where people aren’t paying attention- you could start to single people out so that they participate!

Ryoko had the last part of this presentation. She showed us what television is like in different cultures. We really liked the way it was presented visually with world map and video links. Video links were fun and illustrated the different television cultures fairly well, but it's difficult to illustrate ALL the different broadcast types across the cultures. We thought that maybe a comparison of genres in different countries would also be effective next time- comparing tv advertisements/ drama in different countries for example to illustrate the differences. But altogether, Ryoko did a really nice job with this.Maybe fewer videos would have been just as effective, and Ryoko could've asked the audience of their opinion on the videos for additional interaction. But otherwise, good!

Generally this presentation was well-informed, well presented, no irrelevant information, it was kept ‘to the point.’ Only thing we felt was a bit lacking, was the coverage of non-commercial  broadcasting. Less reality tv etc which is the same in most countries, and more about other kinds of television too. The task they gave us was quite a challenging thing to do with only a ten-minute time preparation but it worked well and was fun- it was the wake up people needed. In the end it was nice that they had a conclusion, but maybe it was a little brief, maybe room for short discussion at the end could've also been nice. Anyways, great job for a small group!