Leading up to this presentation I was very nervous; presenting isn't a strong point of mine at to be honest would rather just completely avoid it. As this obviously wasn't an option, I presented my design strategy as best I could. My plan was to have 10 slides and talk for a minute per slide. When practising I was able to do this pretty well and had enough to talk about to fit the required time. Unfortunately, in the actual presentation, due to my nerves, I forgot a lot of my points and rushed through the presentation. I'm not exactly sure how long it lasted but I would guess around 7 minutes. I am disappointed with how this went and would like to improve my presentation skills, but after 3 years of presenting it has never gotten easier.
My actual presentation slides explained a range of topics about me and my practice. I explained the reasoning behind my visual identity change and how I want to gain experience and work in the editorial design field. In terms of my placement it does not reflect this at all. I do regret not explaining how I recognised this was an issue and how I wish I went else where more suited to my interest.
In my notes and plan, I talked in depth about my placement and what my actual role was supposed to be, versus what I actually ended up doing. When presenting this point I forgot a lot of what I was meant to say and skipped over this slide very quickly, only mentioning how bad it was and not giving any reasons as to why.
In the next slide I tried to explain what I learned from this placement and I was honest in my thoughts. This lead me into talking about my future and what I want to do after university; something that has been difficult for me to decide.
Overall I'm not thrilled with how the presentation went but it could have been worse. In the future I need to remember to look at my notes more when I am presenting for prompts. This will hopefully jog my memory and allow me to make all the points I planned on making.
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