How to prepare an intermediary presentation about the work in progress on your art/design project: Difference between revisions

Every intermediary presentation should include a defined goal of the project that you are from now on committing to.
 That doesn’t mean, it can still evolve and change with further ongoing experiments and progress. But at the moment of the presentation you should have clarified all conceptual questions and know for sure what you want to do. Your project may be very open-ended and have a focus on experimentation, in which case it's a good thing to not be too determined with the outcome of your project - nevertheless it is necessary to define what, how and when you will do which thing.

Advocate for your project. Make your audience understand and feel what interested you about your project in the first place.

Rehearse your presentation. Record yourself if your unsure about your pacing or length of the presentation.

Not optional: don’t exceed the time constrain of the presentation.

When either lecturers or fellow students offer their critique to you, don't react in a defensive way. Instead, trust your colleagues and teachers that the critique, doubts, suggestions for improvements, maybe even suspicions are opportunities to detect conceptual or technical weakpoints of the current state of your projects. Projects are always partial, subjective, incomplete and probably never really *finished*. In the same sense, not all suggestions are worth to be taken into consideration. So please don't try to *protect* your project idea from criticism, and instead try to absorb those suggestions you find useful and let it help you to make your project as amazing as possible.