Pitch Presentations

                            

Pillars of-hip-hop from Catherine Porter

Link: http://www.slideshare.net/CatherinePorter1/pillars-ofhiphop

The chart on the right is how we have represented our pillars through the media pieces we have created for our installation. Although on reflection, we have decided to not include touch, because you can't physically touch any of our pieces apart from the actual installation itself which we won't want. Also taste was confusing as metaphorically we can give the viewer a 'taste' of Hip Hop through our media pieces, both visually and audibly. Hearing and sight are our main focus points in term of installation pieces as our piece is extremely visual, focussing on first impressions, however not taking away from the skill of projection mapping which we are also using.

Reflective Notes:

-         There was a lack of or too much enthusiasm shown in presentations, some groups not seeming interested by their idea. This is integral to the "presentation" aspect, as you are presenting yourselves, and not making your audience stare at a screen. Notes to improve on, should be more reflective of your findings, and visual in terms of ideas, as well as briefly summing up where you'd like to go to show ambition. 

-          Style of presentation - all about presenting ideas not reading text off a screen. As relevant to my previous point, some presentations, the presenters were fixed to their 'notes' and not on the information they were actually giving. 

-          Bottle projection idea – size of the mapping as a bottle is limited to the height – I have worries for the group who wanted to project onto a bottle, and then have the bottle smashed and have a break dancer 'break out', as the projection is then limited to the size of the bottle chosen, unless perhaps they used a cut out shape of a bottle as a physical installation, 

-          Links embedded in website for efficiency - In a few cases, there were troubles with links in presentations. This can be easily rectified by simply getting the 'Embed Code' from the video or audio, and placing within the powerpoint, so that when presented, the link is ready to go without switching to a (slow) web browser!

-          Don’t look at notes all the time – about confidence and the ideas – use prompts to help if you have confidence or shyness issues, or simply just to develop the points you're making and remind yourself to not go on a tangent.