Presentation styles, trends and trendsetters
Recently, I’ve become aware of some emerging trends regarding presentation styles and have recognized some individuals who seem to be at the forefront of these trends. Stylistically, these trends often involve rapid, compact presentations spoken over carefully chosen words and imagery to punctuate the points being made. These ‘cut the crap’ style presentations can be surprisingly informational and quite entertaining if delivered well. It’s something that personally gets me motivated to attend events and makes me hopeful for the future of visual storytelling.
As humankind has evolved from telling stories on cave walls to seeing world leaders use PowerPoint (for better or worse) we’ve also evolved how narrative takes place. Here are some emerging trends I’ve been able to identify: http://adjix.com/428
An excellent, very detailed post with lots of people whose styles I will check out.
Back on September 10, 2008 I blogged about brief presentations, and against Ignite and Pecha Kucha.
Fixing both the number of images and the time for each image is silly. It is just a kludge: a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem. Usually a kludge just solves one problem by introducing another. In this case it fixes the global problem of getting through an evening program by screwing up the individual presentations. A fixed timing of 15 or 20 seconds per image is a reasonable way of setting up a photo album to run by itself in a digital picture frame. It is a lousy way to force a human being to do a presentation. Personally I don’t see any advantage to being drafted into the PowerPoint Marines Military Marching Band.