For this assignment we were split into groups and tasked to look at finding an article on animation and analyse it. Initially I was placed into a different group and we began looking at all the possible articles we could use. However, between the first and second week I was informed that I had been moved into a different group so straight away got into their discord group and began catching up on where they were at.

They were still deciding on what article they wanted to look at, so we went onto a discord call and began searching the University library online for articles that interested us and posting it in for the others to look at. We came across the article “How time works in The Simpsons, by Amy M Davis” which we all agreed was an interesting topic and something new for us to look into. Our group initially were a little unsure of exactly, what, we needed to actually research into from the article and this definitely slowed us down a lot at the start.

I started off by just reading the article several times and jotting down notes a picked up through it. I found that because I grew up watching the Simpsons, a lot of my notes related to my knowledge of lore rather than actual facts taken from the article itself. After this, I did go through and refine it and make sure that everything was based off the articles content.

I re-done my notes several times, a lot of it was repetition but I found it beneficial as when I kept re-doing the notes I would find something else new that could be used.

My group worked really well together via discord and we called quite frequently in the evenings to discuss what we had been looking at individually and then working out how we would divide this information up so that we were not repeating each other with the same thing in the presentation. It was nice to see everyone else’s notes and thoughts on the article as they viewed certain points of information in a different perspective.

I then went over my notes and wrote out briefly how I wanted to present my part in the presentation. I used this during as a prompt as during presentations I tend to get anxious and get brain fog so I didn’t want to miss important parts of information and this helped me overall when presenting.

Reflection:

I found this assignment okay, I feel like the brief and general information given at the start was rather vague and it was very difficult to know exactly what was required from reviewing the article and during the presentation. With our group only being a group of 4 the time management definitely wasn’t as restricting on us but we did feel that we couldn’t go into detail as much as we would like on our parts with fear of running on too long and getting cut off at the 10 minute cap. This I do feel reflects on the overall quality of our presentation as it was very difficult to break down all the information and research retained into more of a brief to present. I am very pleased with my group though, we worked well together, presented well and I feel like had we had a more descriptive brief initially we would have had more time to look at breaking down our presentation so that it wasn’t just as basic as it was. In our feedback we were told it was a bit repetitive and I thoroughly put this down to the uncertainty we had of what was being asked of us.