Oral Refelction

 In my oral presentation, I introduced and overviewed my adaptation of Children of the Sea. In the first part of my presentation, I introduced on how I changed some parts of the story, for example, from Haiti to North Korea, from couple to married husband and wife. Moreover, how I changed the plot that both female and male characters left home on their journey to escape. I also mentioned in the first part about what and why I chose to keep from the original story: The method of writing letters to each other. It is an element that made the original story special and how it is structured, so I kept this part. Also, the reason why I chose North Korea, is because of its situation similar to Haiti, strict and harsh. However, I started explaining the characters I created in the second part. I try to make a clear separation to make it easy to comprehend and make the information I am giving organized. I mentioned how me as the wife and my partner as the husband has in difference, I also related this to gender role. This is what I think I did well on, I try to relate small details in my story to a bigger theme that is in common from both the original story and my adaptation. Moving on to the third part of my oral presentation, I started discussing the blockings. I told how me and my partner chose to use lighting to create a separation on the stage to show two characters being in different location while acting. How we used our props, the flags and playing national anthems. I also mentioned another important part of our blocking by having my partner standing up right and me curving my back to create a high and low level to show our different characteristics: strong and weak. For the fourth part of my presentation, I started analyzing the performance. I tried to explain all of our analysis in chronological order while we stage it, by explaining the first scene first then slowly moving on to the next few scenes.
      Overall, some parts I think I did well were speaking in a steady speed, finishing in time, and told everything that I thought is important to analyze from our adaptation. What I think I could have done better, was to be more fluent while speaking. Also, I think that I could have done a better job to make my speech more logical for the listener to understand my point deeper.