Presentation Assessment Feedback

In this seminar session I received feedback on my presentation about my chosen subject (motion capture in the video game industry) that I am interested in and would like to research.

My presentation itself went very well I had a lot to talk about because I understand the subject I am looking into and I am very interested in the content. I also think I did a good job with picking out the best key points to talk about that summarise my background research so far which lead to my presentation being presented in good time.

Feedback: 'Your presentation was presented very well, you went into a lot of detail with each point you made which tells me you understand the subject you are looking into. The approach you have taken so far is a very good start because you have given a basic overview of the history of motion capture and the video games that used motion capture and what changed throughout this history. Now you need to look into what made these changes? And why these changes happened?'

Feedback: 'Your images are too close to the edge, if your presentation is presented on a projector the projection could cut off the edges which include your images'

Feedback: 'Make your presentation more visually engaging instead of a standard black on white basic presentation design.'

Feedback: 'Referencing is important. A reference list is when you directly use information from a source and that source is displayed at the end of your presentation. A bibliography list is a list of sources that you looked into but didn't use any information. So you can't have a bibliography without a reference list.'

From the feedback given I will go back and change my presentation and apply this feedback to my essays and presentations I do in the future.

Presentation Preview

In this seminar session we received feedback on our draft presentations to prepare us for our assessment.

At this point my presentation had very brief information on what I wanted to say in each slide with the subject I want to look into and the research question I will be answering.

Feedback: Get rid of "3D Modelling" in the subject title.

My subject title in my presentation was "3D Modelling: Motion Capture in the Video Game Industry". 3D modelling in the video game industry was my original subject but I decided that it was too vague of a topic to research into so I chose something more specific like motion capture, now I should delete 3D modelling from my subject title to prevent confusion.

Feedback: Add images to your presentation.

At this point in time I hadn't got round to adding images to my presentation but I got told that I should have images because they are vital in a presentation to keep the interest of viewers.

Feedback: In the research question delete "video games" and "the success of".

My research question was "How has motion capture affected the success of video games in the video game industry in the last 10 years?". First of all I repeat myself in the question by mentioning video games and then the video game industry so I deleted the first mention of video games. Secondly I say "the success of" which can lead me to fall in to the trap of not answering my question because the question asked me to only research in the positive things motion capture does for video games and not the negative which I probably would talk about on default. After acting on the feedback my research question now says "How has motion capture affected the video game industry in the last 10 years?". 

My Subject Decision

In this seminar I chose the subject I want to research into for my presentation. The idea was to break down my chosen subject so I would have a specific topic and not have something that could distract me from answering the overall question. My chosen subject was 3D modelling in video games but the topic 3D modelling was too broad so I chose a technique that game developers use for 3D modelling which is motion capture. 

Feedback - Originally I chose 3D Modelling as my subject but after speaking with my tutor I was told that 3D Modelling was too broad of a topic to look into, so I suggested motion capture a technique game developers use for 3D modelling. 

Next I had to come up with some research questions because they are seen as tasks or reminders to reach the overall goal and find out what it is I am interested in with my chosen topic.

Questions

• How has technology improved 3D modelling in the gaming industry in the last 10 years?

• How has motion capture improved animation in the video game industry in the last 10 years? 

• Which video game developers has had the most influence with the use of Motion capture in the video game industry in the last 10 years?

• What effect has the latest console generation had on the way motion capture is used in the video game industry?