I kept my presentation mostly visual as it allowed me to talk openly about the subject and not confuse my audience by saying something different to what was on screen. Similarly, I like to maintain a conversational aspect when I'm presenting because I have to rely on the knowledge and make sure I know it, instead of reading off the screen. On top of this I think by keeping it casual it allows me to remain calm and not stumble over my words.
To do this I just made short notes by each slide with the points I needed to be sure to cover:
After presenting to a group of 8 others, we each returned feedback to the presenter:
Based on the feedback we received we were able to break it down into useful feedback, 'nice' feedback and unhelpful feedback. While I didn't find that any of the feedback was unhelpful, there was some that went unexplained and so wasn't too useful. On the left I placed the 'nice' feedback and on the right I put the feedback that had something that would be helpful to me on it.
Based on the feedback, I set three objectives for possible improvements to my Summer Brief/presentation and how I should approach it:
1. Be more concise with presentation - I was unable to finish in the 5 minutes we were given because I spent too long explaining my research before explaining the topic - should have spent more time explaining the actual information I found.
2. Explain more about why I chose the topic - I briefly mentioned that I had an interest in learning about using programmes like After Effects to make similar productions but should have spoken more about what drew me to it (interest in film, big Hitchcock fan, want to perfect minimalism).
3. Extend research outside initial topic to enable me to create a comparison - when talking to people about something they may not know about, a comparison would show them my reasoning behind my choice, as well as give them some context and help justify my research.
