Lecture with Rachel Gippetti
Tips on how to present to an audience
Prepare for your presentation -->
*Presentation structure*
Discuss your recent project using the presentation structure -
*Giving feedback -
Shit Sandwich for giving feedback -
Creating an Elevator pitch for your project-
I am currently undertaking a project involving photographing female motorcycle riders in a bid to change the stigma around the community and instead replace it with the idea that these women are strong, powerful, independent and important individuals within society.
In this part of the lecture we had to create notes that would enable us to give a presentation to our fellow colleagues. At first we worked in pairs, then in a four. This task was really interesting as when you were working in pairs, it felt quite personal like you were having a formal chat with the individual, however, when working in a four it became more difficult, as you had to make sure that you made eye contact with all the individuals in the group, as well as making sure that your body language and volume was appropriate for the type of presentation that you are giving.
This is what I wrote:
Hello, my name is Jasmine and I will be talking to you about my project about female bikers with the motorcycle community and the stigma attached to them.
Within this presentation I will be discussing the following points:
To summarise this presentation I have discussed:
The importance of carrying out a project like this one and the benefit that this can have on my audience and the individuals involved and the empowerment that this can have on female motorcycle riders.
- Be nice to yourself
- Give a smile to your audience, gives a good start to your presentation and will make things less awkward
- "High Power" body language vs "Low Power" body language will allow you to feel more in control and will impact the way you think and feel about your presentation.
- Got to your happy place
- Breathe! Focus on your breathing, this will relax you
- What you do with your arms /hands is really important --> keep them at waist height
Prepare for your presentation -->
- Practice - (In front of friends, family, mirror or record yourself)
- Structure - Keep it simple
- Use cue cards - You don't have to memorise everything
- Use of images makes the presentation interesting and also means that the audience aren't always looking at you
- Pretend to be confident
*Presentation structure*
- Introduce yourself - Say what you are going to discuss (Beginning)
- Say it in three key points (Middle)
- Summarise your presentation - Reflect (End)
Discuss your recent project using the presentation structure -
- Photographing female motorcycle riders
- Through the use of photography I am photographing female members from the motorcycle community in a bid to change the stigma around them and to instead bring across the idea of strong, powerful and independent women who ride motorcycles.
- I am part of the motorcycle community and was aware of the issue, but have never really looked at it on this scale before.
- Because it is something new and very personal
- Timing - Meeting up/equipment availability etc
*Giving feedback -
- Body language
- Confidence
- Eye contact
- Enthusiasm
- Structure
- Volume
- Speed
- Language
Shit Sandwich for giving feedback -
- Say something positive
- Followed by something constructive
- Say something positive again
Creating an Elevator pitch for your project-
I am currently undertaking a project involving photographing female motorcycle riders in a bid to change the stigma around the community and instead replace it with the idea that these women are strong, powerful, independent and important individuals within society.
In this part of the lecture we had to create notes that would enable us to give a presentation to our fellow colleagues. At first we worked in pairs, then in a four. This task was really interesting as when you were working in pairs, it felt quite personal like you were having a formal chat with the individual, however, when working in a four it became more difficult, as you had to make sure that you made eye contact with all the individuals in the group, as well as making sure that your body language and volume was appropriate for the type of presentation that you are giving.
This is what I wrote:
Hello, my name is Jasmine and I will be talking to you about my project about female bikers with the motorcycle community and the stigma attached to them.
Within this presentation I will be discussing the following points:
- The process of photographing female members from the biking community
- The message that I am trying to give to my audience
- And the impact that doing a project like this one will have on my audience and members of the biking community
- The process of photographing a select few individuals from the biking community was done so that it enabled me to build a close connection with these individuals in order to understand them better, this would then enable me to take better photographs.
- The message that I am trying to bring across to my audience is the idea of strong, powerful and independent women who ride motorcycles.
- Through carrying out a project like this one I am to: Bring awareness, Build connections, Build a community, Give women power
To summarise this presentation I have discussed:
The importance of carrying out a project like this one and the benefit that this can have on my audience and the individuals involved and the empowerment that this can have on female motorcycle riders.
