Pechakucha is not an unfamiliar name because I did it once about three years ago. It was not a pleasant journey since I had zero experience in both making and presenting it. Now, I have received the task to retry Pechakucha for my project 4 in MACD, which I think will be an excellent opportunity to redeem the previously unpleasant experience.
One of the reasons I didn’t do it so well last time is that I failed to plan before creating and presenting the presentation. Therefore I am making a change this time by starting with a solid plan:
The plan follows the narrative of starting from the project theme and then narrows down to a single topic, then it introduces my interests and how it affects our daily life. At last, it is my initial concept and essential experiences I want to deliver to the users.
The plan includes three questions: What am I talking about, how am I doing it, and what do I want the audience to understand. Setting up these questions limits my thoughts and contents to always talk about the essential things. The outcome of making such a solid plan is outstanding because when I was presenting it live, I understand what each slide is about and what will be on the next slide so that I can speak out fluently. The presentation’s narrative also helps me to remember things instead of having a written script to read when presenting.
However, there are still some improvements I could make in the next Pechakucha. The first improvement is that I spoke too much information in the first five slides, and some of them are repeated contents. This phenomenon leads to the second issue: I didn’t have enough time to tell everything in the last three slides. In the following presentation, I will be controlling the volume of the information and the timing to deliver the best experience to the audiences.