Presentation

The main topic for this week was to prepare a presentation, we didn't know up until we came in that we had to do this though! When I walked through the door and saw on the whiteboard it said presentation I just knew what was going to happen. But just what about?

When I was at school this was something I totally dreaded basically because we used to all laugh at each other and pull faces when somebody else was doing their presentation. But since I left I have done plenty and got a lot more confident in doing these. From me being a supervisor in a supermarket and giving talks to staff in big groups that the managment had given me to a course I studied in english last year in which we had to write 2000 words about a subject then to read it out in front of a class of about 30 people. And there has also been some other little things I have done along the way that could have been tied up with this like job interviews with 4/5 people doing the interview.

So I wasn't nervous at all about speaking in front of anybody or how many people! I was more bothered about what the subject was about. Since we have been doing lectures on colour I might have known what it would be! Yes, we got given a colour and had to note as much information about it and do a 2/3 minute presentation. In our groups of 2 me and Jamie was given the colour brown, of all colours! It was quite difficult finding the most important things to include in such a short presentation so we ended up just doing bullet points on powerpoint and then go more in depth on the actual presentation.

The presentations started at 2'clock but we had to have all notes and guides as Steve kicked us out of the room at 1 o'clock to rehearse. We found a quiet place near the reception and started rehearshing, I couldn't really do the presentation correctly then as I was just learning on what to say and I kept looking down at my notes to try and memorise things and as Jamie pointed out I wasn't making eye contact with him which I knew I wasn't doing but I usually make good eye contact in actual presentations.

We all gathered in the refectory and waited for Steve to call us up one by one, still not knowing who we would be doing the presentation in front of. Was really wanting to go in one of the first just because I didn't want to be sat around all afternoon trying to remember what to say and after half the afternoon went by I was skecthing in my skecthbook after a few sketches I had forgot most of what I was going to say, so back again to my notes! After hearing others in the class talking about their ideas about their exciting colours I thought that mine was going to pretty boring.

There was a good few nervous faces around me wondering what would happen? Would they have to go back in? Who are they doing the presentation in front of? So after the first few went in I found it that it was just Dianne and Steve who was the Judges (only missing Louie). I would have prefered to have done it in front of the whole class to be honest then ask the class to give feedback before Steve did the damage because Steve knows what to look for and hopefully other people who are not as experienced as Steve could point out other things I could be doing wrong.

After being sat in the canteen for what seemed a lifetime it was my turn, LAST! Wasn't best pleased about being last because I just wanted to get it over with and plus I left my bag in the room and my sandwhiches was in and I was starving! Walking up and into the room I just wasn't bothered about it one bit, I took a few tips from Steve's lecture and added them to what I had already learned before about presentations. I made the effort to speak more loudly and clearly then I usually do and Steve seemed quite impressed with it, actually said it seemed natural. But one of my bad habits is I can't keep still, I have to fidget! Not because i'm nervous or anything like that, its just a bad habit, hands in back pocket, moving my legs about, spreading my legs wide, just a terrible habit!

I still forgot my sandwhiches after the presentation ended too!

Guess after coming out of the presentation I felt relieved more then anything, just so that I didn't have anything hanging over me for today! Looking forward to other presentations now especially presenting my course work to people.

Wouldn't really change anything about the way I did the presentation, suppose if anything I was looking at my notes more then actually looking at Steve and Diane, but if I would have had more time I could have studied my notes more. But I would have proberly forgot after doing that too. The next time we do this I would prefer a more exciting colour then brown!