Life of a CMU Student

I really liked this project and the final outcome you presented in class on Tuesday. There were a lot of "Choose your own adventure" type performances, but this one really stood out for me because it was very entertaining and fast paced, and required minimal overhead in explaining what the audience was supposed to do, etc. The story was cool, and you guys did a great job of using props and the background visuals to support your performance. Narration was very well executed, and also the documentation is fairly clear. I can't think of many improvements you could make, besides maybe expanding the script or something if you guys decide to use this for your module 5 project. Great work overall!

I think that this project shined due to the excellence of the performance itself, while also managing to exhibit technical proficiency. In a class for students with a technical background, this goes above and beyond the assignment requirements and is very commendable in that sense. I feel that this performance additionally managed to avoid the awkward tension present in other performances during the interactive segments; It is easy to have the interactive segments be completely silent and feel shoehorned into the performance, but not in this case. Great job!

I really like the story in your project. The script is well-written and your narration of the story is emotional and amusing. Your performance nicely incorporates the narration, the movements of the performer and the videos. I would suggest that you get the audience involved not only by giving them the choices. For example, you could let the audience play a role in your story.

I really liked both the story and execution of this performance. I particularly liked how you guys actually used the narrator as a character. A lot of times people choose not to take advantage of the narrator as someone who breaks the 4th wall, so I thought that was interesting. The actual performance was very clean and engaging throughout a large majority of its duration. The only bad point I have to say is about the audience participation. I did like the idea behind a lot of the choices as the choices themselves and how they were made actually had meaning, but I would have liked to have seen it a bit more refined. Things would get kind of hectic at certain points and it was not very clear if that was the intention. But other than that great work!