Reflection after CPD presentation

My experience with my CPD animation pitching was an unexpected one. This was my first serious pitching for a story so i had high expectations for my groups presentation since my classmates two of my group mates had pitching stories experience before and we followed the checklist of things to present very closely, i felt like this was going to be a piece of cake.

However, on the presentation date itself we realise that they wanted a 2min film and also a 5min pitch for each story. Our individual pitches alone was about 8mins, so we had to edit our slides during our breaks which caused some unsettling feelings which didn't leave me till I'm at the front presenting. During presentation, we didn't have major problems but after the presentation when the teachers comments came in it came of a shocker to us as we didn't expect our story to have such big flaws that were not seen to us. We were bashed up left, right, front, center. Perhaps we were one of the last few of the day and everyone was exhausted so we weren't mentally prepared but reviewing back our story had alot of sketches and environment design, we might have overestimated our stories.

 We had a meeting after the presentation and reviewed all the comments. Though the teacher didn't favour any story, amongst ourselves we did favour one story which was Underneath. The story content was really good, however my friend, the story owner, intended it to be a full 2D animation. I wasn't too open to that medium as i am a 3D artist and i want to show my craft in a project i would spend my final year doing. Luckily he was kind enough to compromise with me,  the project changed into a a mix medium where the characters are 2D and the set design is 3D.

Overall, we are currently happy with our ideas and when we presented the edited version to any other teacher he seems curious of our project, so YAY! I'm glad i can be open with my groupmates.