Preparing a Portfolio Presentation
Being able to articulate your work and know your work.
contextualizing your work and how your work fits in the scheme of things.
for a portfolio presentation present your work as an artist. Image the people in the room are potential clients. If you have a purpose for the presentation, and this is your focus, the awareness will be on the audience and not on you.
practice practice practice, as this will make you more aware of what you are talking about, and try not to read from a script.
THOSE WHO FAIL TO PLAN, PLAN TO FAIL!
Do not wing your presentation, prepare plan practice
verbally articulate what you are going to say.then you will be able to say it better, and be able to speak with flow rather than stumbling.
How are you inspired? = talk about this
Deciding clarifying objective.
- what are you wanting your audience to do think and feel? example understand the time it takes to produce, understand your intent, clarify its application
- Is your presentation aiming to get clients, sales or appreciation?
- what is your point of difference? example versatility? reliability? Uniqueness?
what make you as an artist unique?
have a purpose for your presentation, think about the other uses of this presentation.
contextualizing your work, expertise recognizing your work. Industry recognizing the work you do.
sourcing content
where will you find information that supports your works importance/relevance/existence?
sourcing content
where will you find information that supports your works importance/relevance/existence?
- expert/industry opinion
- personal experience/opinion
- public opinion
a good presentation will include examples of all of these. make sure you take note of quotes, images or any other content that would be beneficial in supporting your presentation.
selecting visual aids, portfolio, but even they we need to show the portfolio, the focus is on yourself as a artist
have sections of the portfolio in a power-point presentation, rather than all the portfolio site.
YOU ARE THE FOCUS not your portfolio
what's going to be helpful to your audience
visual aids to be used effectively
make sure your presentation flows from one point to the next.
try and remember your words, but if you can not, use palm cards with dot points to prompt you on to the next area.
clarifying the brief
break up the sections and structure your speech
if you want to use a quote. if it is an artist or person we do not know, refer to the person who they are. give an example of who they are, and explain,
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
opening and ending
using dot points
using visual aids
use friends/family
grab your audience with your opening, and make them part of the presentation
ending - sum up your presentation, and finish your presentation in a way that inspires your audience and leaves them with something to remember.
have sections of the portfolio in a power-point presentation, rather than all the portfolio site.
YOU ARE THE FOCUS not your portfolio
what's going to be helpful to your audience
visual aids to be used effectively
make sure your presentation flows from one point to the next.
try and remember your words, but if you can not, use palm cards with dot points to prompt you on to the next area.
clarifying the brief
break up the sections and structure your speech
if you want to use a quote. if it is an artist or person we do not know, refer to the person who they are. give an example of who they are, and explain,
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
opening and ending
using dot points
using visual aids
use friends/family
grab your audience with your opening, and make them part of the presentation
ending - sum up your presentation, and finish your presentation in a way that inspires your audience and leaves them with something to remember.
Being in my class NM3102 Professional Practice and listening to a guest speaker, I realize how important it is to practice your speech, and try not to add to many fillers, such as UM, SO and AND. The guest speaker said um many of times, and it got rather distracting to the point I felt uninterested in listening to her.
Yandell Walton - projection artist - http://www.yandellwalton.com/
Projection work looks very interesting, and this would be something I would want to look into further as an artist. I think I will have to be more involved with workshops within the art industry rather than University. There does not seem to be as much hands on classes at University, I completed Time Based Media, which is a movie based subject, and gives you the fundamentals of working and editing in video, however projection is again another area to learn.
Artist Yandell Walton collaborates with others, programmer, animator etc. This is similar to working in a team at University, however I feel in the work force, the collaboration would be different, as my group project in Time Based Media was a very challenging project. I find there are some people that dominate others, and therefore take over and feel in charge of everything.
I know this can also happen in the workforce as well, but I also feel working in the work force there is a diversity of people and areas and each person will have their own job to participate in, and the collaboration would work much more smoothly then one person taking over and doing everything.
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