Welcome to the grade 10’s cray cray yay yay pechakucha night! This is what you would have heard if you were at seycove secondary last night. 

You would have entered the school and seen our greeting crew immideatly to your right. You would have walked in after that greeting with a playbill in hand, and would have been ushered to your seat. you may have taken your seat, talked to some local friends and family from PLP learners or any other guests who came to watch and enjoy our wonderful Pecha Kucha night

Lets have a lil reflection

What went gucci mane

I think by far my teams highlight is our keynote. We spent the most time on it, and it went through very much evolution since the first draft on Friday, a week before our final presentation. Sadly, due to our unfortunate planning we do not have copies of each presentation, since we used the ‘collaborate’ feature. I can explain the basic run down.

Vers 1 – many slides not taking up the full screen, instead leaving unnecessary borders.

Vers 2 – refined slides, topic related to slide by using story board

Vers 3 – mostly same photos as final, but not adjusted to fit the whole screen

Ver final – photos adjusted to fit screen, editing to improve quality, after effects used to make images POP

What went bad

The answer I’d give you is the script

During this project I used the Tom method. Work when you have time in school, grind once there is a week left. I know this is flawed, but I only work to my full efficiency if I have pressure on me. As per usual there was a problem, and this time it was a problem of great concern. 

You see, we had our first dress rehearsal on friday, a week before the actual night, and our group wasn’t bad. We managed without bringing our script up with us, and our PechaKucha was definitely engaging, but in terms of actual information, we were a lil short. It seemed a little waffle-y and we couldn’t get our information across.

My plan was to do our two official practices before the presentation night and spend most of the in class time practicing presenting, but as it happened our slides needed work too, so most of the pre presentation work time was spent on the slides. On top of that we spent a lot of time learning learning skills on speaking and enunciating so we had very little time to get our practice in. At least we still had time before the presentation, right. Well, somewhere along the line, I got the idea that we would have time directly before the presentation opening, some half hour or so, to rehearse, but upon my arrival, I was called in to the big room. As it happened, we were to do a rehearsal as a group; a complete run-through, with all the pieces. Except not that either, since I was the last to go in my group, we had to finish, because we didn’t quite have enough time. 

What did I put into the the final product

creating initiatives, Planning, and helping the team BE a team. 

My team worked well, and I think that was my contribution. My teammates are both very smart, but being smart as individuals wouldn’t help us. I helped my team by using our teachers guidances and goals and making goals for us. Throughout the project we had many times when we thought we were ahead, and had our schtick together, and I helped by making sure we actually- did.

This leads me to my next point, which is how can I get out of the project.

 I think this was revealing for me, because I didn’t view talking with the teacher, and talking with my group as work. It is easy for me to do, and it still paid off as work. I think this is pretty solid evidence of what I am good at as a person, and what I should do for work.

Conclusion

I see this project as an absolute win. 

Public speaking, or any kind of public display pushes everyone to do their best, because they will be seen and judged. Wether you think of that as something scary or an opportunity for you to showcase your hard work to a live audience, it always is pressure. 

Seeing as how lazy I have become, I like having this pressure! I work hard and make products that I am proud of. With a normal project, I still work hard, but I don’t have the same drive for success, and tend to not push myself as much. But success doesn’t come from comfort, and I am glad to have put in the work in this project to make a Pecha Kucha night that I am proud to have been a part of.Â