Saturday, March 24, 2012
Week 9 Question 2
An event that I attended had a speaker that used power point slides to illustrate his topic. He showed pictures of things that helped to clarify certain things in the speech. He also listed his main points on them. The speech was approximately 15 minutes long and he had approximately 8 slides. It made me think of how many to use for my speech. I want to have enough to illustrate my point but not so many that I am flipping through them. I don't think that his media was any kind of distraction. They added just enough that you could read them and still listen to the speaker. I'm not sure that there could have been any improvement in the presentation only because I was so enraptured in the speech and his passionate presentation that I didn't see anything that could have been improved upon. I see this as being a fabulous example of a speech that I want to base mine on.
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How many slides will effectively apply to a 5 minutes informative speech? This question has also been bothered me for two weeks. Since I started to gather information for the informative presentation slides, I have used over 25 slides to concentrate in 8 slides. When I read your post about the speech, which had 8 slides in a 15 minutes presentation, I was suddenly frightened because I have already sent 8 digital slides to our professor. Nevertheless, I think the effective number of slides will be based on your speech content and slide’s designs. For example, my slides are more images, less words to reinforce my audience impression. Therefore, I am not worried that the 8 slides will be too much for the 5 minutes speech. Finally, orally practicing speech with clip digital slides might be another actual way to decide the slide’s number. I hope this will help you to decide how many slides is the best for your speech. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteYour ideas were really helpful! I have been very worried about my use of slides in my power point presentation for tomorrow night. Often I either get too caught up in what I am saying, and forget to use the slides all together, or deviate so much from my original plans that my presentation media doesn’t make sense anymore. Something that is going to help me this time is keeping everything SUPER simple. Lately I have been going into too much detail, and overlooking the fact that what I am talking about really is not that complex. It sounds like the speaker you saw had a really good grasp on how to use presentational media.
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