Week 7/8: Chingay Oral Presentation Reflection ---- Geraldine

Hey readers! Just here to share about my reflection of this whole Chingay presentation! :)

Basically, this whole presentation was formed with A LOT of effort from our group. We took up a lot of time to the point whereby I don't even have the time to do my own homework. Fortunately, I think it all proceeded quite well and our efforts were perhaps not fruitless after all! :)

Of course, during this whole process, I learnt a lot of things,especially regarding skills of oral presentation. I learnt that we should always be confident because only then will we be able to speak loudly and only then will the audiences' attention not waver about. I also find that perhaps we should smile more because, from the audience point of view, I realized that I will pay more attention to more cheerful people as compared to those who have a very serious face. When speaking, our tones should also have variations to prevent a monotonous presentation and also, hand movements should also be included to emphasise on the key points and also to not make the whole presentation look so "dead".  We should also try to memorize our script and not look at the script most of the time because this will cause us to have less chances of making eye-contact with the audience.And oh I almost forgot.Eye-contact.We should also make eye-contact with the audience around us so that it would not look as if we are talking to ourselves.In my opinion, in fact, I feel that making eye-contact is somehow a minor interaction with the audience, which is something we need to capture the audiences' attention.

Overall, this whole presentation has taught me a lot in terms of speaking skills as well as the history and more of Chingay due to research we did in the process. It was indeed a really fruitful and meaningful process to create this whole presentation as I have benefitted from it greatly! :)