This is the last post I’ll write drawing presentation advice from Star Wars, mainly because I can’t get any other ideas. But I think that 5 posts are nothing to be shy about! I think the movie industry, in general, and the internet have spoiled us. We watch a lot of movies where the beginning [...]
I know we usually focus on the heroes of movies and stories to learn lessons, that’s why I’ve written posts about lessons learned from a Rebel Alliance leader, another from Obi Wan and one from Yoda. But today I want to go over to the Dark Side, which is always more fun. In the new Star Wars movies, no matter how bad they are, we can see a key moment in the saga’s history, how the Emperor turns Anakin to the Dark Side.
I’m going to tie two things together in this post, Murphy’s Presentation Law and the Star Wars posts. There’s a very memorable scene in the first Star Wars movie (in production order): Luke is going to shoot at the tiny gap that will destroy the Death Star, and he’s aiming with his little augmented reality [...]
Another lesson Garr Reynolds talks about in his presentations comes from comparing what Darth Vader and Yoda’s presentation styles would be like. Truth is, apart from funny and original, it’s a good explanation of what the Dark Side of Presentations would be like. According to Garr, Darth Vader is rigid and cold, so his presentations [...]
When we were in school we learned to fill up our exams until we were out of space; it was frowned upon to hand in an essay that didn’t fill up the whole page. Most of us learned the trick: To write more, studying the same, you had to learn how to say the same [...]
Garr Reynolds is a diehard Star Wars fan, when I was studying with him in Japan he talked a lot about lessons for presentations that could be taken from Lucas’ films. Far from seeming like a geek, I think almost everyone has watched Star Wars, and whether you like them or not, they have influenced [...]
We’re all well acquainted with Murphy’s Law: if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. Well the same applies to presentations, and when you’re giving a presentation there are so many things that could go wrong… Did you bring your own pc? It won’t recognize the projector! You have a Mac? You’re missing the [...]
Do you really think about your audience when you prepare your presentations? A recent study declares that teenagers cannot hold their attention on something new for over 8 seconds. What does this mean for people who create presentations? It means that your presentations have to be engaging enough to grab and keep your audience’s attention. [...]
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