Tuesday, January 25, 2011

My Second Presentation

https://w3.icu.ac.jp/people/payne/kanaf.html

This was my first Pecha-Kucha 20x20 project.
In my normal presentations I usually like to spend a long time on the important slides, and spend short times on slides with unimportant information like when I am showing specific examples.
So at first I felt that this type of presentation was not fit for me.
However as I prepared my presentation I noticed that there were topics that shows best in the Pecha-Kucha style, and topics that doesn't go well with the style.
At first I was planning to present about french animation and in the presentation I wanted to introduce a specific film that I really like. But through my preparation I figured that this topic does not fit the PK style, and so I decided to change my topic to Otaku.
I think presenting a film in the PK style is difficult because it is hard to explain the story in the 20x20 form, and plus you cannot show videos on PK presentations. Otaku seemed like a better topic because I had several things I wanted to argue about and they were all about the same size of content. I got 16 things I wanted to say and used the rest for introduction and conclusion.

I thought my voice level was in control, but my words got stuck in the first parts so I was in a hurry to make it for the next slide throughout the presentation. I didn't get the chance to practice in the morning before AE, so next time I'll try to rehearse it at least once on the day of the presentation. I also want to be able to have more confidence at the end of my presentation.

I realized that Pecha-Kucha style actually might be a good way to present, because once you get used to it you don't even have to look at the slide, just press the start button and go. To the audience, it might even look better than the normal PowerPoint because you look more professional.

1 comment:

  1. Sorry for the late reply Kana,

    so a review for your PK,

    Good notes, I thought you were very smooth, and you had a great choice of pictures and a great topic.

    Some things you need to look out for,
    you needed to look around a bit more, make a wider range for eye contact. You also did a bit of hula.

    Overall you had a great presentation.

    Oh and it was great fun working with you and Yuta on MMC.

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