Oral Presentation Critque

My Own Oral:


The movie I choose for my oral presentation was "Million Dollar Baby". When looking back and reviewing my oral, I did a lot better then I thought I was going to do. I was clear and has information, but I realized I forgot to talk about a couple of things like cinematography and how the extract relates back to the movie as a whole. Talking about those two things probably would of helped my oral become stronger and receive a better grade. I feel like I was sorta organized, but at the same time I could tell I bounced around from different topics. My strongest topics that I talked about were the lighting and how gender takes a big role in the movies. I covered most of the material besides relating the extract back to the movie as a whole and the cinematography. Overall I think I did well even though I felt like I was going to do horrible. If I were to give my own oral a score, I would give it a 20. This is because I covered most of the subjects, I went deeper into the meaning of things, and because I was clear on most of my points. Also there reason once again why I would take points off is because of not hitting the topic of how the extract relates back to the movie as a whole and the cinematography, and how at times in my oral I wasn't overly specific. 


Jenna Fontaine's Oral Presentation:


 I choose Jenna Fontaine's oral presentation to critique. The movie she choose was "Edward Scissorhands". Jenna did a good job of explaining her extract and each topic. She throughly explained shot composition, sound design, and the sociocultural aspects. She really went deep into the foreground, midground, and background of her extract and what it meant. She also explained the dominating sounds in the extract and how they were brought about. I really like how she related the film to gays and AIDS; which are problems that still exist today in our society. She discussed how they were important in the time period of the film. Jenna made a lot of connections to the film which brought my attention because I saw more meaning to the story than before. I feel like she could of talked a little more about the target audience but I felt that her point was clear enough for people to understand what she was saying. Just like me, her weakness was talking about cinematography and sound design. Those two things I had trouble with talking about and i felt like maybe she did too. I felt that she focused a lot on how the character struggles with his surroundings and how that signifies his actions. Overall, I would give her a score of 22 because her oral presentation was well developed and she hit a lot of the subjects. She also went deep into what she was talking about so it was just simple details but a detailed analysis that takes time to really think about. Good job Jenna and keep it up!!!