Watching the presentations these last couple of days has been really interesting but very long haha! My bum hurts from sitting for so long! It was interesting to see what everyone has been doing and what they intend to do after college. It was also strange to hear how many people don't see themselves as illustrators. I feel like the odd one out saying that I actually do see myself as an illustrator.
Going in to the presentation and even these few weeks leading up to it I got very nervous. I think a lot of people know I get very nervous about standing up in front of people and presenting. I got myself quite worked up over it these past few days and I can't express how happy I am that it's over! Last year my feedback said it was clear that I was nervous, and it really was... I was actually shaking! To my surprise, todays presentation went so much better.
I took the advice from Fred and used bullet points on the slides as pointers (as it worked for me in first year), rather than reading off a piece of paper which I did last year. This helped me not to stumble on my words as much. Annoyingly having text on the screen was brought up as negative feedback. I can understand why and hopefully this is something that I can stop doing eventually, but for now it's something that I know I need in order to present myself effectively.
Overall, the presentation went surprisingly well and once I'd started I felt a lot calmer. I think (hope) that I came across of confident and professional. I received some great feedback which left me feeling very happy about the presentation as a whole.
No comments:
Post a Comment