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Presentation Skills Blog

 Presentation Skills Blog Here are FIVE really important skills when you are presenting a presentation. The first one is to remember to project your voice. This is a very common mistake. Whether you have a naturally loud or naturally muted voice, you must remember to control your volume in order to make sure everyone can hear you clearly and easily. You don't need to yell, but also remember you can't just talk normally - no one will hear you and everyone will see you are nervous! The second point is to remember to be gesticular. This may seem counter-intuative because you want to draw attention to the presentation you have created, but being gesticular and being an engaging speaker is SO essential to teaching what you are there to teach. You can have the best presentation in the world but if you are boring to listen to, then you will damage the quality of your overall teaching. The third point would be to always include the audeince. At the end of the day, a presentation is ver

3 Examples of Creative Collaborations

  Creative Collaborations It's clear that there are multiple creative industries who specialize in certain mediums, you have the film industry, the music industry, the advertising industry, etc. It's very common for multiple industries to collaborate on one piece of media, usually a large-scale advertisement or campaign. Here are three examples I have found. I will discuss why each one is a collabo and why.  Most of these examples are brand deals, where two or more brands join together to promote each other and fund each other and pursue a public campaign. The intention is usually to sell more products and build more exposure. Billie Eilish X Adobe 2021 Collaborators:  Adobe - Computer software company Billie Eilish (BE) - Famous pop star YouTube - Video sharing website Adobe teamed up with BE to market their Creative Cloud program to creatives. The motivation behind this was to get young BE fans who are also artists to use Adobe's software to create designs and merchandise