Reflecting on a recent presentation.

This prezi I’ve put above was used on Friday the 27th of July during a presentation of where I am “so far” with my dissertation for Pols 490.

The presentation was to be 15 minutes long and infront of my fellow classmates and a selection of lecturers from the University of Otago’s department of Politics.

While my preparation and development of content before hand was slightly hectic and more rushed then I would have liked, the class seemed to forgive me and I was quite pleased with the response if not slightly embarrassed with myself for not being more organized.

Rather than focus on a specific chapter of the research, like many others did, I really wanted to give an overall yet clear idea of what I was trying to do. This meant however that I was forced to speak at a mile a minute in order to cover even the broad ideas involved with my research. But on the whole it turned out ok and was really good in terms of a “consolidation exercise”.

Tacking Aim at the Candidate Information Booklets

In order to limit the frame for this research, I decided to take aim at a particular part of Voter Information that for me exemplifies what bad VOFO looks like-namely the Candidate Information Booklet used in local elections. You can flick throughthe Dunedin 2010 candidate profiles in the Issuu above or visit the Web version here.

These information booklets(or pamphlets) are always very similar -they consist of the candidates name, a recent black and white photograph, the name of a ticket or declaration of “independence”.