"Making Your Case" is a video programme prepared by Video Arts Limited, a British company producing high quality training films. The video focuses on how to improve our presentation skills. It lasts for about twenty seven minutes and it uses role plays to deliver its message.
After watching the whole programme, I have some opinions and feelings towards the programme and I would like to express them in this report.
Firstly, I was deeply impressed by the form of material delivery of this programme. It is an educational programme and I used to think that educational programmes are often not entertaining but informative. But the programme, to my surprise, is not boring at all. It uses interesting drama to present the materials and information. The efficiency of delivery of messages and information is highly raised by this method over the traditional methods like transparncies, speeches and group discussion.
As the form of delivery is effective, I found that my memory of the whole programme is better than I originally expected. Although it has been a very long time since I watched the whole programme in class, I still remember the learning materials the programme presented clearly. Moreover, the interesting characters in the role play are still in my mind. Indeed, my classmates also have the same experience as I do. We feel that this form of interesting presentation of learning materials will greatly improve the memory of students and will raise their interests in learning.
On the other hand, I feel that the whole porgramme is well organized and well structured. It is divided into four parts, with each parts deals with a particular aspect of presentation skills and difficulties we normally will be encountered. The main character, beautiful Alice, is a young woman who was not good at presentation at first but she improved a lot at last. Through the experience of this girl, the problems which we frequently made on presenting ideas are pinpointed. Then they are tackled one by one in the programme. The pace of delivery of information is very good, not too fast nor too slow. Hence we can absorb the materials in a highly efficient way.
Overall, my classmates and I are satisfied with this programme. We would like to introduce it to other schoolmates in the future. Also, we highly recommend that this type of learning method to be used in future classes so as to enhance learning efficiency and it is available at the Audio-Visual Section of our main library.
