Part 3

You might be thinking to yourself "Did they pull it off? Were they finally helpful? Did it all go well?"
I would answer this with a resounding "Yes, Kind of, Pretty much"

So we met an hour before the presentation, James Hustler introduced himself to me for the first time and we started to go through things. Kieron turned up a little later, and Richard about ten minutes before we went to present. Ric didn't make it as he had work. So I ran through all the work and my ideas with the guys, we spoke about which job roles they could take on for the presentation, based on what they had the best grasp on in that hour. They helped me with a couple of presenting ideas, which was good.

We were presenting first. Up we went. I think the others were a bit more nervous than me. I start the presentation in much the same way as for the formative. I get to the slide which now contains a link to the brainient video. Click it and it doesn't really work. That's fine though, because Linnéa paused the time while I bring the video up. That was nice of her. The video starts and it's super loud. I try to turn the mac volume up but the keys are assigned differently so it doesn't work. I must confess I got a little flustered at this point, turned the volume down on the video, but when I try to make my next point after I draw a blank mid way through. Luckily James jumps in and keeps the flow going. My God! Why did I doubt him? The boy's a genius! Saved the day!

The presentation continues without incident and they seem to like it. Well, Emi doesn't seem to be as big a fan as the other two. He got distracted by my slides. For question time they decide to ask the others about their job roles seeing as I've done most of the talking at this point. James does pretty well and answers convincingly. Richard doesn't do too badly either. Keiron freezes up and I have to help him out. And that's the end of the presentation. They liked it, so it's a win in my book

Pretty soon after my presentation I got a call from my teammate who I'm working with on my animation project, the deadline was the next day and there are rendering problems so I had to duck out early to help him out.

So in summary, my team were pretty useless up until the day of submission, then Richard and Ric made a bit of an effort, then on the day James comes through as probably the most useful team member. Crazy right? I guess that's why they call him the Hustler. Or maybe that's because it's his surname.