The students kept asking me how it compared to festivals in the UK, and I had to say that I’d never seen anything like this in the UK. But then maybe my experiences in Bournville aren’t particularly representative.
I tried asking them what the festival was for and who came etc etc. It seems that many students from all the other Tokyo art universities come to these things, as well as families of Geidai students. In addition to showing and selling some of their work, each department has its own batch of beer and food stalls as well as two or three student bands playing throughout the evening. After which, apparently it is traditional for the students to decide to go for a swim in the pond of the nearby park.
A part of the degree course I’m doing, I have to give a short presentation on presentation methods - we’ve been analysing different exhibitions and the strategies they use to present artists’ work.
When I say a short presentation, I mean a short presentation: 5 minutes.
This is going to have to be focused!
[Update: At 6 pages, the documentation of the preparation certainly is not focused!
Over the past few months I’ve been reading the articles over at Presentation Zen. I came across this site through my webdesign work and I’ve continued to read it because it’s very relevant to my webdesign work. How do you guide your audience along a path that transfers to them the information you want them to acquire?
I am starting to write this post on Saturday morning. The presentation is on Tuesday morning.
I’m also going to have to be focussed to get this prepared on time! Sitting here now with the task ahead of me, I have mapped out my plan of attack:
Quick survey of visual resources.
Identify the main points I want to convey.
Structure these points.
Decide how to distribute these points between the presentation and the accompanying handout.
Build the powerpoint presentation.
Build the handout.
Practice.
Present.
I have other, longer, presentations to do later in the year, (and it will almost certainly form a part of what I have to do as a fully-fledged artist) so I thought I would document the whole process here so I can refer back to it and progress.
1. Quick survey of visual resources.
It’s been a few months since I saw the exhibition so this step will serve to refresh my memory as well as give me an awarenss of what I can use for my visuals later.
