One of the big themes in this chapter is keeping your digital presentation simple. Basically the idea is that you don't want to overwhelm your audience past the point of absorbing what you have to say. If you fancy up your slides to the point where the audience is visually bombarded with pictures, text, and wacky transitions, they won't take in a gosh darn thing that you have to say. How could you focus on a speech when the visuals are over-aggressive? And if you were to add exciting audio to the mix, you can kiss your audiences retention goodbye.
Keeping your presentation simple will allow you to highlight main points while still keeping the attention of your audience. You don't want your digital media to outshine you, right? Just like going to a wedding, you don't want to look better than the bride. So get your speech figured out, and then carefully choose media that highlights what you are talking about. Don't write your speech around your media, that is usually a recipe for a poor speech.
Keep your text large and easy to read and limit yourself to short, concise sentences. Use media to describe what you are unable to convey with words. Illustrate your point with pictures or fun graphs. Keep transitions to a minimum, and keep them simple. Choose color palettes that won't assault the eyes of your audience.
Keeping your presentation clean and simple will allow for your audience to more fully grasp your subject as well as up their retention rates. I've never actually made one before, so I am reasonable nervous about the whole thing. Well, to be fair, the whole Informative Speech has me a little nervous, but I am looking forward to having it over with. Good luck everyone!
First of all... no need to be nervous. You will probably actually find that it is easier to give a speech when there is presentation media as it helps keep you on track. Also, our group of students are very forgiving and will enjoy learning about whatever you are informing us on.
ReplyDeleteKeeping things simple not only makes for a better speech, but also for better preparation. Your speech will be of better quality if you are able to focus your attention on the contents of the speech rather than the presentation of the speech. If you feel pressured to spice things up too much, you will exert more effort in the presentation than you should.
Very nice! I like you're idea of keeping the digital presentation simple. I do not want my audience to be overwhelmed with my presentation, so I will make sure to have it weal balanced, not too many pictures and not too much text. I am very nervous about the presentation too, this will be my second presentation; however, this one is more important because I present by myself compare to the other one when we were four people. I really hope everything will go perfect and for you and for me, just do not look and read from your presentation, because it does not look professional.
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