Client Brief Presentation
I don'k know what strategies I am going to employ to improve my presentations. I know my work, I prepare, but I don't deliver as I want to or as I should. The other students appear to be so much more confident in their approach to presentations and my skills are sadly lacking.
I feel as a mature student that I should have the skills and confidence I need, but my nerves kick in, my mind goes blank and I always let myself down.
I have no problem with one to one's and I'm ok in Group Tutorials, but Presentations are my
achilles heel and I have to find a way of changing this.
I enjoyed listening to the others in the group; as I am the sole voice of the
Architecture Company, I was sharing with the
South West Coast Path Group. Its amazing how everyone has different ideas about their subject. There was a variety of topics ...from Portraits to Food.... Animation and History. It was a very interesting sesssion and some of the work was pretty impressive.
Cover Story Presentation
To my dismay, I had brought my
Memory Stick without having copied my presentation to it. I couldn't believe that I had done this. I had my
Sketch Book with me so I was able to make a new powerpoint presentation with what I had. Fortunately my first Book Cover image was on my stick, but my Author Portrait which I had spent all afternoon the previous day printing in the Dark Room, and had scanned at home, was not on my memory stick. I did have the final test strip so I scanned that to show instead.
My presentation was ok but not great. I don't know what to say about it, other than as I said before, I need to find a way to increase my confidence in this area and not be so damned scared. I can do it, I just need to keep my nerves in check.
I had shot some images of my daughter in the park when the sun was low in the sky, as an idea for my second book cover; I hadn't thought that these were very good but I was surprised to get some positive feedback. I will now shoot these again, this time with a male friend somewhere in the City Centre. Marcus advised me to ask my subject to wear black as the silhouette would be improved, and also to have him stand close to the background with the cityscape further in the background. I am hoping to do this on Wednesday when my friend is available.
Meeting with The Architecture Company
After the presentation, Matt had said that he had received an email from Tanya and that I should contact her soon. I did this immediately as I have over 200 images to give her and want to get some impressions from her.
I arranged to meet Tanya and Marie the next day. They are in the midst of moving from the office on The Barbican but assured me that phone numbers, website etc will remain the same.
I took along my
Photo Album and
Memory Stick. They were very happy with my images.Tanya said that she would look through all the images and let me know her thoughts. I said that if there were any images that they would like me to shoot again, that I would be happy to do so and also if there were any further work they would like me to carry out then I would be available over the summer break.
I am now waiting to hear back from them.
Dark Room
I had spent some time in the Dark Room printing my contact sheets for my
Author Portrait and returned again last Wednesday to print my final submission. From the two films I had shot, there was one image which fulfilled the criteria for the brief. It is sharp around the eyes, it has a good Depth of Field and the Lighting is good. I did test strips first at different times and grading and then three full 10 x 8 prints which I liked. I printed the portrait in both
landscape and
portrait and it is the latter that I prefer and this one that I shall use for my finished work.
