"Pan's Labyrinth" presentation

Our group presentation for English 312 was substantially different from others we had seen previously in the class. The other groups chose to take a book and compare it to the films counterpart by discussing changes that were made and why those changes were implemented. My group’s presentation was on Pan’s Labyrinth, a 2006 film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The challenging part of this was we had no book to work with! The film includes all of the elements that we have been reading about this semester, in the same way Watchmen did for my English 492 class. 

Despite having no book to work with I felt our group worked very well together and the work was spaced out equally. No one person was stuck with creating all the slides and putting it together. This did not happen for a number of reasons. One reason is that my colleague Rayne took the initiative to put together a Facebook group entitled “Literary Geniuses”. This group was an excellent way to discuss what each member was going to bring to the table as far as content. “Literary Geniuses” was also the primary way we set up meeting times.

The second reason is when we were putting together the project we used google docs. This was a great way to ensure that each part of the presentation was being included and nothing was missing. Also, no one would worry about having to export it and put it on a thumb drive. While this seemed like a perfect plan, my group did not anticipate the internet would go out on us in the middle of our presentation thus delaying our it. Despite the technical malfunctions I felt in the end we really pulled it together and gave a worthwhile and enlightening presentation.