This is one of my favorites. While at Interbrand, as part of keeping the creative team on their toes and presentation ready for all our favorite clients we were encouraged to take place in regular office Pecha Kucha presentations. If you aren’t familiar with this style of presentation I highly encourage you to check it out, they’re really fun to present and listen to.
Here's the gist of what a Pecha Kucha presentation consists of:
20 slides that stay on screen for 20 seconds each
The speaker has no control over the slide changes so they must practice and synch their voice over to the slides
Because it's timed the entire presentation always lasts exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds
For this particular round of presentations, the direction was simple – present something most people don’t know about you. I was relatively new to the agency at that point, which meant I didn’t know everyone very well and they didn’t know me, giving me the perfect opportunity to do a 400 second sermon on my all-time arch nemesis – styrofoam…even just typing the word gives me the heebie jeebies*.
Personal fav from the presentation:
“My friend has a huge phobia of styrofoam, to where she has to ask for a different kind of leftover box at restaurants because she can’t stand it…she also is afraid of chalk, possums, and the state of Montana.”
*In case you were wondering – heebie jeebies is a phrase, widely attributed to Billy DeBeck, meaning a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, depression or illness. This is certainly true when it comes to me and my relationship with styrofoam.
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