How to sum up socialism in 6 minutes?

[Jacob Cliff]

I by no means want any of you to do my project for me, but I'm doing a "pecha kucha" presentation in my class which is due next week (pecha kucha means 20 slides that last 20 seconds, with no words on the slides, therefore I have to memorize the 6 minute speech).

I've had a hard time coming up with how to squeeze socialism into this. So far I've started with dispelling myths about socialism, and second slide is reduced to defining it broadly, but what then? What do you think would be necessary to brush over in the presentation?

[Creative Destruction]

that's an awful way of presenting something. is this what is standard in schools today?

[Jacob Cliff]

I really hate it too. But I want to practice presenting about it so I can get more used to explaining it to larger audiences than 1 or 2 people.

[Futility Personified]

You can speak in front of this presentation, right?

[Jacob Cliff]

Yes. Just no words on the slideshow.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

talk quickly

[BIXX]

Yes. Just no words on the slideshow.
Just do a bunch of brick/hammer+sickle/circle a/wildcat photos.

[ckaihatsu]

Assuming you mean 20 slides x 20 seconds each = 400 seconds total, or 6-2/3 minutes, you can cover a lot of ground, though only superficially.

My general advice would be to plan it all out to the second, as on a timeline or with video-editing software. Sync your talk to the visuals as you like, and consider using some movie-type music for effect, for fun.

As to content, maybe pick *one* issue and cover it from a few angles (subtopics). If I were doing it I would look at why socialism is still relevant, here in the 21st century, well after the demise of nation-states that claimed its ideals. Put another way, 'Why would anyone consider socialism?'

The visuals could be stock photographs, as from morguefile.com, that track the emotive words and themes from the talk.

[Tim Cornelis]

Pecha kucha originates from those fashionable business trends and I guess they want to familiarise students with it as a way, among many, of doing presentations. My advice would be to not do it about socialism or at least keep it as matter-of-fact as possible, as it may come across as preachy (otherwise), like a religious zealot trying to convert people. So no dispelling of myths, just leave that implicit (like, communists believe in a stateless society, etc., which implicitly dispels that myth -- or, many communists opposed the USSR, etc.). There was this one RevLefter who did a high school presentation about the necessity for revolution and said afterwards people considered him a bit weird.

[ckaihatsu]

Pecha kucha originates from those fashionable business trends and I guess they want to familiarise students with it as a way, among many, of doing presentations. My advice would be to not do it about socialism or at least keep it as matter-of-fact as possible, as it may come across as preachy (otherwise), like a religious zealot trying to convert people. So no dispelling of myths, just leave that implicit (like, communists believe in a stateless society, etc., which implicitly dispels that myth -- or, many communists opposed the USSR, etc.). There was this one RevLefter who did a high school presentation about the necessity for revolution and said afterwards people considered him a bit weird.


Shit, at this rate maybe we at RevLeft should *have* a presentation ready-to-go, for all future school projects -- !

= D


And I'm a graphics guy, so the sky's the limit...!

I *will* say that I think one's instinct is probably to cover the topic head-on ('necessity for revolution'), but by doing it that way it easily becomes academic, dry, and boring.

Offhand I'd be looking to ask the audience to put *themselves* back in some situation from their past where they felt a distinct lack of control in an organizational setting -- we could then ask *why* there was an inherent conflict between what they felt they needed to do, and should have been able to do, versus the reality of being *disempowered* and where that friction came from, exactly.

We all know we don't live in a perfect world, so what *are* the imperfections, and what is the social basis (cause) of their existence -- ?

If people can't find ways to relate 'the big picture' to people's actual life experiences people will immediately dismiss socialism as something pie-in-the-sky or else just some academic historical thing.

[The Idler]

Here's a one-minute television advert for communism
http://www.the-propeller-group.com/tvcc
also look up presentations on document sharing websites such as scribd and slideshare
https://www.scribd.com/search-documents?filetype=presentation&limit=30&query=socialism

[BIXX]

Here's a one-minute television advert for communism
http://www.the-propeller-group.com/tvcc
also look up presentations on document sharing websites such as scribd and slideshare
https://www.scribd.com/search-documents?filetype=presentation&limit=30&query=socialism
Oh fuck you I'd forgotten about that shit.

"Language of smiles"

[Creative Destruction]

Here's a one-minute television advert for communism
http://www.the-propeller-group.com/tvcc

i couldn't help but to think that the person who was saying "This is the new communism" sounded like she was trying to stifle laughter.