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Welcome back, once again, to my blog!
Today we will be looking at something that I am sure several Digital Marketing students are struggling with – the Pecha Kucha.
DISCLAIMER! These are my opinions only and are only meant as a useful guideline and not a How-to manual.
Today’s post will aim to, hopefully, answer some of the burning questions you guys have about this interesting form of presentation. So! Enough chat – let’s get to it!
What is it?
Pecha Kucha (also referred to as PechaKucha 20×20) is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images.
The presentation format of the Pecha Kucha was created by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture. The first PechaKucha Night was held in Tokyo in their gallery/lounge/bar/club/creative kitchen, SuperDeluxe, in February 2003. Klein Dytham architecture still organize and support the global PechaKucha Night network and organize PechaKucha Night Tokyo. http://www.pechakucha.org/faq
What do you need?
A computer/ laptop, PowerPoint or a different presentation software and a microphone (if your computer does not have a built-in one or it is not as clear as you would like).
Tips for your Pecha Kucha?
- Keep it simple!
Your slides don’t need to be overwhelmed with writing – less is better! Make images the focal point of your slides so that there are less words on the page and anything that needs to be covered can be said in the speech recording of the presentation.
- Slow down!
Because of the time constraints, you may feel the need to rush your speech in order to get all your ideas in within the time allowance. Do not do this as it leads to stammering, stuttering, tripping over your words and makes the point you are trying to put across unclear. The audience needs to be able to hear every word clearly.
- Sources?
You can put your sources in the slides as this shows that you conducted some research on your topic however, you do not need to quote the in-text citation in your audio recording as long as it is clearly shown on the slide which part has been sourced. A full reference, however, should be put on the reference slide at the end of the Pecha Kucha presentation (slide 21).
- Annotate!
With a minimum amount of words on each slide, it would be beneficial to annotate some of the images that are on your slides. This is especially important if the images are a series describing events or elements of if important elements of the image are not immediately obvious to the audience. An annotation would help in highlighting these areas.
And that is pretty much it for today’s post – I hope some of you found it useful!
Here are some helpful links you:
How to Make Great Presentations the Pecha Kucha Way:
https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/how-to-make-great-presentations-with-pecha-kucha
10 Tips to Create and Present Pecha Kucha:
http://blog.indezine.com/2012/05/10-tips-to-create-and-present-pecha.html
Till next time! X
References:
Global Digital Citizen (2016) How to Make Great Presentations the Pecha Kucha Way [Online] < https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/how-to-make-great-presentations-with-pecha-kucha> [accessed 9th May 2017]
Indezine (2012) 10 Tips to Create and Present Pecha Kucha [Online] < http://blog.indezine.com/2012/05/10-tips-to-create-and-present-pecha.html> [accessed 9th May 2017]
PechaKucha (2017) PechaKucha 20×20 [Online] < http://www.pechakucha.org/faq> [accessed 9th May 2017]
