Group Presentation Reflection
Our group Sinead, Angela, Kevin, Brian, and Jason were in charge of the presentation of Diana Wynne Jones’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle and the film adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki. Before this class I had never heard of either the book or the movie, and when I first started reading I thought “what did I get myself into”, I was a little confused. As I read further and did some research on the novel, I began to really enjoy the book and was excited that our group had chosen this instead of some of the literature and films I was familiar with.
The job that I was tasked with for the project was discussing the ‘portal’ part of the novel and the characters. We as a group decided that to help make our presentation about the novel/movie really clear we thought it necessary to cover every character. The characters can get confusing fast because of all the identity changes. From that point I was able to just focus on the four main characters Sophie Hatter, Wizard Howl, Calcifer and The Witch of the Waste. I thought that it would be helpful to introduce the characters to the class by book and then by movie. This way the differences between the original and adaptation would be apparent. In addition I wanted to have a little fun so I thought that including a fun question like, “Did anyone want to marry Howl?” was a good idea.
Furthermore regarding the rest of the process our group came to realize that time had been creeping up on us and that it was time to start thinking about our presentation and meeting up. During class we got an email conversation started and then decided to meet out of class and watch the movie together. We met then and watched the movie and started our preliminary outline for the presentation and assigned roles. After that we decided to get our research done so that we could meet again and put together a power point presentation and figure out the slide order. At the next meeting, all group members were present therefore, we had to reconfigure the jobs so that everyone had a job to do. Once that was done we figured out which clips of the movie we wanted to show to the class and then discussed themes, the heavy depiction of war, and deciding on all of the other things that would be important in our presentation. After that meeting we were supposed to send our slides to Angela (Our Tech Queen) and she would put them all together in one power point and make it look aesthetically pleasing, which she did. Thanks Angela it was awesome!
On our presentation day we were all ready and prepared and we decided to meet before class just to make sure that we were completely prepared for our presentation. As far as our presentation goes I think we did well. The order of our slides was carefully thought out so that the class could easily follow our presentation, I also think that we added funny anecdotes and presented insightful ideas and concepts. We did go a little over the time but I really enjoyed the end when we had a class discussion and got hear from others their ideas and opinions on the book and movie. From what I saw I believe the class was interested in what we were saying and found our presentation to be informative and interesting. I really enjoyed getting to know some of my classmates a lot better; this was a valuable learning experience for me.
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