Professional Studies Presentation/Pitching Skills

PRESENTATION / PITCHING

The whole point of a pitch is to bring the person/people your pitching to up to date as fast as possible without overwhelming them with to much information or boring them into loosing interest.

To help with everybody's pitching skills and over all presentation skills, a few lessons where put aside to cover it as it is not just a useful skill to have in general but a good skill to have in the media industry e.g if you where to ever pitch a script/film or project idea to a strangers/employers or financial backer.

Before we went on to write our professional studies report everyone was tasked with creating a 10 slide power-point on the subject of there report and given only 10 seconds per slide to explain what was on the slide and how it related to there report.

My Report was on the subject of film and digital and my presentation basically jumped backwards and forwards between the two first mentioning film and then the digital alternative to that.

During my pitch I found on some slides I had more to say than others and because i am not good at speaking on the spot I stuttered/paused a lot trying to think of something to say but when I could think of something to say I think I was able to get my point across well enough for the class to understand what I was doing for my report.

EXCERPTS FROM MY POWER POINT

NEWS REPORTER VS SHOP ASSISTANTAnother task in professional studies was communication skills for this we had to to role play as either a news reporter or shop assistant on the phone.The person who acted as the news reporter had to catch the shop assistant out and make them slip up there words through asking questions about a shipment of bird flu infected chickens that the shop was supposed to be selling to the public still.I played the role of the shop assistant against Tori who played the role of the news reporter everyone's call was filmed and shown upstairs in the seminar room although I did slip up on something I said she never picked up on it and I got away with it. I think I did well in this task and a lot of my answers although trying being dead serious came of as dead pan humor to the class when reviewing the video back. My favorite reply was "could the apparent man infected with bird flu not just have food poisoning from re heating the meat" to which Tori replied "you cant re heat meat" so I responded with "I know that you know that does this ill man know that"I enjoyed this task and since I was one of the few to not get caught out by slipping up my words even though I did I think I did surprisingly well in this task.

Professional Study trip (Newcastle)

Newcastle Trip

The whole class spent a day out in Newcastle whilst there we visited the Baltic art gallery which is situated just next to the river and the Tyneside Cinema which is more closer to the center of the city we also had a chance to walk around and reccie film locations.

I felt that the the Tyneside Cinema was more closely related to my course being the last remaining full operational newsreel theatre in the UK which not only specializes in vintage news show reels but mainstream and lesser known foreign films as well as that If I ever wanted to I could even potentially have a future film of my own shown there.

It well as being an active cinema and cafe it was also a museum with displays of old camera equipment and other objects and you got a real sense of how far cinema has come and how diverse it can be walking around.

While on the tour of the multi story building we had a chance to see some vintage news reels,the kind of cameras that would of filmed those newsreels and last but not least the buildings constantly blending of new and old architecture which allows the building to stay up to date and modern but also have a hint of the past behind it at the same time.

The other place we visited had little to nothing to do with my course I feel but was interesting none the less

it had a lot of art from up coming artists and a big stained glass window project that was on display