Archive 41 Presentation

I put together the presentation for my teams pitch. The idea was to keep it fairly simple, just using images. People watching a presentation don’t want to have to read loads of text on each slide so I thought it was important to just have images and visual aids on the presentation, with all the necessary information being read out from the script. The layout of the slides used a square grid centred to the bottom  right corner as a visual link to the NASA graphics standards manual. 

I think all in all the presentation is good and fairly simple; certain elements such as the exhibition floorpan could have been designed to a higher standard to increase the aesthetic value however it still communicates the idea well. 

Our actual execution of the pitch went quite well in my opinion; the script was written well, meaning we covered all the bases and talked bait everything and also our cost analysis was very thorough and realistic which showed we’d put the time in and thought about it. Watching other peoples presentations, this really showed to be effective as theres no point giving a really good presentation with no idea of what it will actually cost. We didn’t have too many questions at the end so hopefully that meant the pitch was clear to everyone to everyone. 

All in all, I think this project was quite successful; the concept of the exhibition is interesting, the designed aspects all worked with continuity as aspects of the branding and were all evocative of the theme of the exhibition, the location and curation were all well thought out with simple yet effective ideas and the cost analysis was thorough. If I had to develop the pitch further, I think it would have been a case of just experimenting a bit more with ideas and really throwing out some ideas for the design and concept, before developing final ideas. It also would have been interesting to be a little more ambitious, and maybe this experimentation would have contributed towards that. We covered all the touch points we needed to, however looking at some of the other presentations, some people went above and beyond in terms of adding extra things in such as extra designed aspects, animations and videos. 

I am often wary that adding too much into a project can convolute the concept and idea, however I think its about treading the line between that, and just doing everything necessary simply and effectively but adding in those little touches to make the presentation look a bit more developed and sophisticated. Maybe these extra developments could have been present if we hadn’t changed our idea halfway through the project, but also I think if everyone in the team had really engaged with the brief early on and we had more of this experimentation of ideas, it would have helped.