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content matches form meets audience distribution, at least that would be
content's dream. Mozart had some complexity to say, but he left it up to
the specialists to batter their heads against the semantic conduits. Music
can carry complex abstractions better, I think, because it's received by a
different part of the brain; sounds and words aim at other parts where
complexities are less welcome in the arena of performance. I've attended
John Ashberry and Allen Ginsberg readings; the heart and mind were engaged
at different areas in both.
But, as a rule of thumb, with a randomly selected audience, I'd go for
simple. Of course, if I could guarantee an audience of PhD students, then
the blackboard would be full of indecipherable and chalkdust take the
hindmost.
"Bullard, Claude
L (Len)" To: "'roger.day@globalgraphics.com'" <roger.day@globalgraphics.com>
<clbullar@ingr.co cc: "'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
m> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
18/12/2003 15:33
Typically true. As in specs, as in art, less is more.
In real time, it is particularly applicable as anyone
who jams on a regular basis discovers the clutter factor,
but would Mozart be better with fewer notes?
1. Slides with too many bullets are terrible
because the speaker runs over time every time.
2. Slides without bullets can be worthless
and the speaker will still likely run over time.
3. A problem of bullets is lookahead. The audience
is reading ahead of the presentation and formulating
arguments instead of listening. So is the speaker.
4. Bullets are just one style. Work with animation
and try to see what does and doesn't help. Too
many styles in one presentation are worse. Too
few are bland. Keep winnowing until the speech
is exactly what you want to say. Save some fire
for the last set. A bauble is junk jewelry.
No size fits all. Practice is the path to perfection.
Perfection is somewhere over the rainbow. The best way
to know if a gig is successful is if they book you again.
The songs I've recorded that have the least in them
took me the longest to record. Ego comes with facility.
len
From: roger.day@globalgraphics.com [mailto:roger.day@globalgraphics.com]
The same thing happens with poetry. There are all sorts of claims to rules,
but they're really just styles. "rules" are there for the greyhairs to
suppress the upncoming.
As I have been what might be loosely termed a performance poet who tries to
"deliver" abstract poetry, it seems to me that "content" at that particular
point of presentation is liquid. receptiveness differs and no what content
you put up, people come away with different callbacks of what you've
presented. Writing words on OHP slides may seem to give comfort to the
presenter (Ah yes, look, it's in concrete blacknwhite!), but even this can
be treacherous. Keeping the ideas in the presentation simple seems to me to
be a reasonable approach. Details are for absorption in quietness.
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