Day 91 Monday 21st May 2012 The Commission Pitch delivery

Monday 21st May 2012

Today we were scheduled to deliver the powerpoint presentation that had been finalised over the weekend. Although our delivery time-slot was 11:55 we all met up at 10:00 to run through the work. A couple of team members wanted to apply some personal notes (to the notes pages on he slides), so this was done and we awaited our call into room 806. The format was a 'Dragons Den' format with those pitching standing before a panel of three, reviewing the pitch. We ran through the pitch and to be honest I've been involved in better presentations and I felt we weren't seen at our best. But we completed the pitch and answered the questions whilst showing the model and floor-plan.
The one obvious (with hindsight) omission with the pitch was a very clear visual run though of the images in the order that they would be displayed, formatted so that each photographer could discuss each body of work individually. What we had was one slide with all the images (in the order they would be displayed) what was the sole responsibility of one team member to deliver. Unfortunately this wasn't really robust and the presentation of the slide also fell somewhat short of the mark.  This left us with the model as our medium for explaining the flow of the work and thankfully the model was very detailed!
We accepted the critique of the powerpoint but felt that overall the quantity and quality of our work was noted and the questioning was far from harsh and of course very constructive.
Having never had to complete a task of this nature before it was a great learning experience and an opportunity to explore all that needs to be considered when putting on an actual exhibition.

Due to the fact I am attempting to support another student and because I had agreed to meet up with the Fashion Constructed Image group I stayed on at uni after the Commission pitch. The team wanted to insert their personal notes within the (notes pages of the) presentation that we were due to deliver tomorrow, and they set about this task progressively working through all the team members. I didn't add very much but I tend to use notes as a prompt rather than something I bury my head in and read word for word. Fundamentally the presentation was already very strong and well laid out and notes were their for to support the speakers.