The making of a presentation (part 1)
Finding creativity
For those of you who have yet to see the ‘Cultivating Creativity’ presentation, just scroll down to my last post. As a huge part of my blog-posts have been about Slideware Presentations I figured I had to participate. And if I was to participate, I wanted to do it right, meaning: adhering to my own ideas and philosophies about what makes a great presentation. As an oral presentation wouldn’t be possible I would have to use more text than I would normally do, but it had to be strong visually. First thing’s first though and the first challenge was to decide upon a topic for the presentation.
The very first physical piece of the presentation-puzzle
Some of the topics I considered were myself, Norway (my country), Visual Storytelling (surprise) and anything else that popped into my mind. In the end though I decided to go for a shallow but entertaining meta-presentation. (A presentation about itself.)
So
with this in mind I began doodling and
brainstorming on paper. While doing so however I
felt that the topic was perhaps too shallow.
While I felt fairly comfortable that I could
make a presentation interesting to watch, it
might be a hard sell to actually get anyone to
watch it in the first place. Yet, I didn’t have
any better idea, so I pushed on. When it
suddenly hit me: My search for creativity was
the answer. How often hadn’t I found myself in
search for the creative spark? How often hadn’t
I experienced the creative part of my brain
firing on all cylinders when laying in bed
waiting for Mr. Sandman to arrive? And even
better: I knew how to treat my brain to spark
the creative process in the first
place!
