Gone were those Sundays of "hanging out" in Starbucks, Gardens to discuss about our presentation on Gestalt. I think it took us almost a whole month to get it done and over with... Week after week, we had to devote our precious weekends to deal with this assignment and when the day finally came, I think we kinda pulled it off 70%. Not really up to our level of expectations, but it should be good enough because the topic itself was hard to explain.
No doubt, we cannot compare ourselves to the almighty lecturer but I think (personal opinion) my group didn't deliver the topic well. It was like as if the class was struggling to understand the concepts that we were trying to convey and there were constant frowns on their faces. The presence of textbooks suddenly became so vital. It felt like as if we needed the help from our lecturer every now and then - we say one sentence, and he needed to add another ten to clarify the theory. Gestalt is seriously not an easy theory to understand. There are tonnes of concepts and "wayward" ideas in it (though they make sense) but it is just very hard to let everyone understand what we were saying. We even had continuous discussions and argument about what a particular word would mean, what more the class which has never been exposed to this theory.
I think what captivated their attention (successful) was the video on Fritz Perls practising on Gloria. It was a classic and a hard obtained video which impressed the lecturer. In addition, the clip was interesting with Perls demonstrating the powerful impact of Gestalt...
However bad we sucked that night, I believe we have all put in our best efforts to make things work. At least, I liked the idea of the orange and it was good recap. The rose would have been more impressive if we could explain the concepts as well as Gerry, but I guess not, since we ourselves didn't even do enough research on "peeling the onion"...
Let bygones be bygones... We are after all, the blinds leading the blinds in this assignment...
No doubt, we cannot compare ourselves to the almighty lecturer but I think (personal opinion) my group didn't deliver the topic well. It was like as if the class was struggling to understand the concepts that we were trying to convey and there were constant frowns on their faces. The presence of textbooks suddenly became so vital. It felt like as if we needed the help from our lecturer every now and then - we say one sentence, and he needed to add another ten to clarify the theory. Gestalt is seriously not an easy theory to understand. There are tonnes of concepts and "wayward" ideas in it (though they make sense) but it is just very hard to let everyone understand what we were saying. We even had continuous discussions and argument about what a particular word would mean, what more the class which has never been exposed to this theory.
I think what captivated their attention (successful) was the video on Fritz Perls practising on Gloria. It was a classic and a hard obtained video which impressed the lecturer. In addition, the clip was interesting with Perls demonstrating the powerful impact of Gestalt...
However bad we sucked that night, I believe we have all put in our best efforts to make things work. At least, I liked the idea of the orange and it was good recap. The rose would have been more impressive if we could explain the concepts as well as Gerry, but I guess not, since we ourselves didn't even do enough research on "peeling the onion"...
Let bygones be bygones... We are after all, the blinds leading the blinds in this assignment...
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