I thought this video did a good job of outlining the context that past societies had about future cities. I liked the pacing of your video and the holistic approach you took to your analysis. Also, I thought your comment about how buildings began to expand upwards instead of outwards was an interesting observation or element of your discussion.
Because cities include such a wide array of technologies, you covered everything from cars, to electricity, to how physical buildings changed. As a result, I think the widespread nature of your topic necessitated that your analysis remains broad. Next time, I think it would make for a more fruitful presentation to pick just one technology and go really in depth in the discussion of contexts. Furthermore, I really liked your last slide about how modern society currently projects cityscapes, so it would have been great if you had spent a little more time connecting your analysis to the contemporary moment.
Last, in terms of a technological comment, sometimes your voice recording was cut off a little at the beginning, so we missed the first word(s) that you said. Otherwise, the images and voice-over really worked well together throughout your presentation.
Hey Aaron! Solid project. Similar to what Emma has said, I liked the way you provided an overarching narrative for the growth of urban environments in the United States as well as the forms of transportation that people used to access them. You could benefit from a bit more specificity with the points you want to emphasize (I actually don’t remember which image you centered the project around), but the style you laid forth generally works well.
Your imagery was clearly selected and presented with care. I specifically appreciated the graphic displaying rapid urbanization and that famous image of hundreds of power lines criss-crossing overhead, that’s especially powerful for me. From a technical standpoint, transitions between slides here and there would make a big difference in making your presentation feel less fragmented.
I did notice the technical issue that Emma mentioned with cutting off the beginning of a phrase, that’s an easy fix. I also think you have a great voice for this kind of narration and it was well recorded, though it seemed like your voice was louder through the left channel than the right. That’s a nitpicky issue that’s pretty easy to fix, overall I dig it!
Overall the slidecast had very strong historical context which transitioned well into the main topic of future cities in the second half. It was good to detail the dominant technologies at the time to understand why the technologies of the future are what they are. Also the population growth and the move from rural areas to urban areas is an important piece of context to understand futuristic utopian societies.
While the historical context was very informative, I feel like the slidecast took too long to reach the main topic. For most of the slidecast it felt the subject was 1940’s history rather than cities of the future. More analysis on pictures of technological futuristic cities and machines would benefit the slidecast greatly.
The project as a whole was very well executed and the information was really well researched. Some more expansion on the later topics, such as the flying cars, would be a great addition. However this would not be a difficult change for the next slidecast.
I thought this video did a good job of outlining the context that past societies had about future cities. I liked the pacing of your video and the holistic approach you took to your analysis. Also, I thought your comment about how buildings began to expand upwards instead of outwards was an interesting observation or element of your discussion.
Because cities include such a wide array of technologies, you covered everything from cars, to electricity, to how physical buildings changed. As a result, I think the widespread nature of your topic necessitated that your analysis remains broad. Next time, I think it would make for a more fruitful presentation to pick just one technology and go really in depth in the discussion of contexts. Furthermore, I really liked your last slide about how modern society currently projects cityscapes, so it would have been great if you had spent a little more time connecting your analysis to the contemporary moment.
Last, in terms of a technological comment, sometimes your voice recording was cut off a little at the beginning, so we missed the first word(s) that you said. Otherwise, the images and voice-over really worked well together throughout your presentation.
Hey Aaron! Solid project. Similar to what Emma has said, I liked the way you provided an overarching narrative for the growth of urban environments in the United States as well as the forms of transportation that people used to access them. You could benefit from a bit more specificity with the points you want to emphasize (I actually don’t remember which image you centered the project around), but the style you laid forth generally works well.
Your imagery was clearly selected and presented with care. I specifically appreciated the graphic displaying rapid urbanization and that famous image of hundreds of power lines criss-crossing overhead, that’s especially powerful for me. From a technical standpoint, transitions between slides here and there would make a big difference in making your presentation feel less fragmented.
I did notice the technical issue that Emma mentioned with cutting off the beginning of a phrase, that’s an easy fix. I also think you have a great voice for this kind of narration and it was well recorded, though it seemed like your voice was louder through the left channel than the right. That’s a nitpicky issue that’s pretty easy to fix, overall I dig it!
Overall the slidecast had very strong historical context which transitioned well into the main topic of future cities in the second half. It was good to detail the dominant technologies at the time to understand why the technologies of the future are what they are. Also the population growth and the move from rural areas to urban areas is an important piece of context to understand futuristic utopian societies.
While the historical context was very informative, I feel like the slidecast took too long to reach the main topic. For most of the slidecast it felt the subject was 1940’s history rather than cities of the future. More analysis on pictures of technological futuristic cities and machines would benefit the slidecast greatly.
The project as a whole was very well executed and the information was really well researched. Some more expansion on the later topics, such as the flying cars, would be a great addition. However this would not be a difficult change for the next slidecast.