Exibition Reflection

Overall, exhibition night wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I actually wasn’t nervous at all and had no trouble engaging our audiences. I thought it was a great way to display our projects in an informative yet professional manner. It was a great learning experience and it helped me grow as a speaker. My partner and I’s biggest strength was actually knowing and understanding all of the aspects behind our projects for math as well as humanities. We were engaging and easy to follow. It definitely helped that we knew all the answers regarding the content as well. One thing that we needed to improve on was verbally grabbing the attention of passing audiences and pulling them into our project. If we had done that then we would have had a larger amount of people coming to see ours. The most challenging question that we received was regarding our pinhole camera. We were asked why the negatives were upside down and backwards and I as well as my partner had to explain the science behind why it actually happens and why the positive shows everything correctly. Next time we have exhibition, I would try to pull people into my project a little more so that we would get more their attention.

Character Studying

Well so far, my idea of what the characters are going to be hasn't really changed all that much. However, their are a couple of things that I want to add to their characteristics. For example, the activity that we did in class today inspired me to add that Mateo Phillipe Raphael Batista the third is actually very impressional and pretty much agrees with whatever he is told regardless of how out of the ordinary or rediculous it is. Currently, Mateo is a five year old Filipino who attends a public elementary school and though he is very young he swears that he knows everything. The grandpa (Mateo Batista senior) is your typical elderly war veteran. He is very opinionated and over time, he has passed down his biased opinions to his younger grandson.
I have been trying to find the best way to show the growth that mateo goes through as an individual as well as an independent. However, I have come to realize that it is in fact quite difficult because considering his age, people just don't change mature that rapidly. On the other hand, Yomi, the Japanese five year old is the exact opposite. He is shy but he thinks on his own two feet and doesn't agree with everything hears which allows him to gather bundles of imformation then later come up with his own opinion and ideas. We need to come up with some more events that will occur throughout the story though, because our story lacks some exciting events. We also need to some how incorporate and tie in some more emotion into the characters without changing their entire personality.