As an exercise in presentation skills today, we were assigned the task to create a one minute presentation; the presentation could be on anything we want, however the aim was that it was presented confidently, fluently, clearly but also that it was entertaining to watch.
I decided to do my pitch on “who would win in a fight between a gorilla and a lion” - its a bit of a silly topic so instantly from there, there was an element of humour. I decided to do this as a presentation because as opposed to a presentation which is informative, it has that added element of suspense because people are actually wondering which animal would win. I found an article about it which had various facts about each animal, and I memorised the facts, meaning I didn’t have a script - something which increased my presentation skills and my ability to engage the audience. For the visual part of my presentation, I created an image of a gorilla and a lion in the jungle and out this in a gif - this image was static for 55 seconds until an animation played of the gorilla punching the lion and then sitting back in victory. This gif was good because it made people think ‘oh no the gif isn’t working’ but it was actually at the end - demonstrating my ability to time the presentation so that i’ve come to my conclusion that the gorilla wins, right on time for the animation to play.
Feedback from this was very good and I will try and consider how I can incorporate fun entertaining aspects like this into my actual personal presentation.
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