My Oral Presentation – Post #7

My first thoughts about this presentation was: Boy was it fun:)

I have to be honest to admit that this is my first attempt at presenting to the whole class in such an informal but funny manner in NUS. But I ENJOYED it tremendously. My group’s aim is to present something out of the box. Something that captivates people’s interests and also entertain them at the same time, without having to conform to the usual formal business-styled presentation.

Before the presentation, I was full of doubts about presenting in such a way because I was torn between preparing this for the Tesla Motors team or for my ES2007S mates. Moreover, an oral presentation for a “Professional Communications” module gave this idea of a formal, business presentation. However, after a discussion with Daniel and Ayu, we decided to let our hair down and went ahead with our original plan. On top of this, we created our slides in such a way that they capture the essential ideas so as to enable the audience to grasp them along with the entertainment.

I was extremely nervous at the start of the presentation. Firstly, I was not sure whether I could pull this through because I was never good at acting. Secondly, I was worried that I could not remember my lines. And thirdly, the strong urge to laugh with the rest was killing me. In fact, I noticed myself stammering and even shaking as I pretended to hold the imaginary microphone during the mock interviews.

The technical glitch that occurred during my presentation sent me into a panic state initially. This was because I had put it a lot of effort to produce that animated chart in an attempt to bring across my points effectively to the audience. Nevertheless, I managed to get a grip of myself and resumed on my discussion even without the help of the animation. At the point of time, I remembered Brad’s experience on speaking without his slides. The crux of the presentation is not found in the slides, but in our minds.

On the whole, I felt that Daniel and Ayu did a great job throughout this semester. I am very happy that we were able to complete our final task for this module with a big bang and wide smiles. I hope everyone in ES2007S will feel the same as we did in their upcoming presentations.

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