- McCarter Fellows, name and professional goal
- Include which impact it has on people.
- Action picture
1. Background: what and why? 2. Practices, 3. Influence
Pecha Kucha (chit chat) technique from Japan: fun, fast and interesting. The approach limits the presentation to 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide – a maximum of 6 minutes 20 seconds.
- Stay to the point, please
- Now – > Execute (cartoon, animation)
- detail each stage,
- Before and After, show your process!
- Embed your video, be creative!
- Social Media on the last slide: promote yourself! or even promotional material
- Context, Punchline
- Get the audience to think about it.
- How do you make it memorable?
Who are you?
What do you make?
What is your Topic of Interest?
What is your Medium?
What is your question?
- Who are you?
- text on slide: name, major, graduation year
- an image on the slide: a picture of yourself that isn’t totally boring, and ideally relates to what you are going to talk about in this slide
- what to say: your name, something about yourself that the audience can connect to and remember, ideally related to your project
- What do you make?
- text on slide: optional
- an image on the slide: an image of your work
- what to say: Tell us about your creative background and an example project or skill relevant to your research project.
- What inspires you?
- text on slide: optional –
- an image on the slide: an image of/ related to what inspires you, may reference another contemporary artist/practitioner, a natural phenomenon, etc
- what to say: go beyond why something is interesting or great, get to why it inspires you to work
- What is your topic of interest?
- text on slide: an optional
- image on the slide: an image that represents your topic of interest somehow.
- what to say: Explain your topic to establish a frame for your research question. Be concise.
- What is your research question?
- text on slide: Your concisely worded question.
- an image on the slide: optional, don’t clutter it up too much
- what to say: your question (the one time it is okay to just speak what is written on the slide
- What will you make to pursue an answer to your question?
- text on slide: optional- steps
- image on the slide: a sketch, a related example, something that defines the problem-space
- what to say: Describe what might you make in pursuit of this question. Outline some steps regarding research, prototyping, and production. Call out any needs for skills and knowledge – perhaps these could be addressed be people in the audience through sharing, collaboration, or providing resources.
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