Kyle asked us to complete a presentation for both projects, the presentation is 10 minutes long – 5 minutes on each project, and this is to practise talking about my process and work, and also to show him everything I have been doing in in the past 12 weeks. This was week 12.
My presentation can be accessed here – Cara Greene-2
I made my presentation on Google slides because for me, it is the easiest to navigate, include images and send to others. With lectures from both Kyle and Daniel on ‘Pitching’ I felt really prepared walking into the presentation and speaking out loud about my work.
What did I include?
- The process for both projects – Portfolio and The elements project
- A sneak peak at the research I have been doing on these projects
- Images of lots of my work and development
- An introduction slide on what I would be discussing
- Reflections on both projects
When designing the presentation Kyle said it should be designed with influence from your brand – my brand is red and white and I felt like adding red to every slide was quite jarring so I kept the design white – this was simple and sleek in my opinion. I also tried to keep text out of my presentation, because I wanted the images to speak for themselves and me do all the talking. I talked about what i struggled with/challenges throughout, what I still need to work on and how the process helped me get to my end result.
I loved talking about the projects, even though it was a little scary at first because I love both of them and it is easy to talk about what you love or what you are interested in. I felt that the process of making this presentation really helped me in my work actually, it helped me know what I have done and what I still have left to do, it also made me realise what I have to blog about and how much research I have done. It helped me group together in my mind the process from start to finish for each project which I was unaware of before, making it easier for me now to complete all of my work.
Was it helpful?
I think this task, although daunting was really helpful for the following reasons:
- It gave me some practise on public speaking and it was not that scary because it was just to Kyle
- It got me talking about my own work in a positive and constructive way
- It gave me the opportunity to look at all of the work I have done and see what needs to be done or changed
- It was fun to create a slide show of all of my work this year as now there is a place were I can look at it all in a presentation format to show others
- It was helpful to see my process and how I work as a designer