The Final Presentation Blog

This week I dedicated as much time to recording my final presentation, a first for me as I have never done a recorded presentation. I knew that I would face some troubles and that I would be extremely tough on myself and would catch every single mistake, as I have done virtual auditions, but I underestimated the difficulty of what I set out to do. Making sure that there is no stutter or any mistakes in verbiage was borderline impossible and I had to restart aplenty. Ultimately, I had decided that I would just go through and do my presentation as is, and not care for mistakes. I ended up with a recording I was satisfied with. My biggest takeaway from this experience is not holding yourself to unreasonable expectations and recognizing that natural speech has small mistakes, and that ultimately makes the presentation more human and more engaging for some. If I had never stuttered or misspoke, I am sure that some people would've thought I was speaking from a script and that would've reduced the more personable nature of the slides and presentation, and I would come away from the experience a worse presenter. A natural presentation has mistakes, and so a virtual presentation, something that seeks to emulate real live presentations, must also.