PowerPoint presentation

Oh, how I have struggled with the presentation.  It's becoming a nightmare to co-ordinate the slides with the voice over.  Then, when it was all in order with animations and voice over in co-ordination, I saved it as a movie only to find that the voice over did not transfer to the .mov .

It turns out that I have to use iMovie, once I have converted the slides into images (.jpgs) and, yet again, record the script over the images but with no fancy animations to enhance.  That probably means that without animations it will be shorter than the requirement of 15 minutes.

I save the whole presentation to be PPT 1997-2003 format hoping that it could be played by people with no PowerPoint to comment on the whole thing but it wouldn't work.  I checked out on the Office website that there was a download that enabled you to see it but to no avail.  I'm having to create a full movie with audio channel to get the necessary comments to support my submission.

Oral Presentation notes

Whilst I've been working on this presentation using PowerPoint I can see that I've not been posting my thoughts and research to put this together.

I was also under the assumption that I needed to give a presentation to an audience using my slides but after reading an entry on the OCA Photography Facebook it turns out that I can do a voice-over instead.

I've had to work hard to get the slides and voice-over to appear together.  In fact, I'm now running 3 weeks' late in handing this assignment in.

Screenshot of oral presentation

I've prepared 19 slides and written the script but am finding it hard to get through the whole voice-over without stumbling over my words.  I spent 4 hours on Monday morning (9th January) going over and over to try to get through the whole script and slides but with to no avail.

I was gazing at the screen when I suddenly saw the Pause button and realised that I could talk over a couple of slides, pause, take a drink and carry on.  The programme shows the timings as you go along so I can co-ordinate the gaps between each slide by watching the clock.

I have been working on my assignments at a local computer centre where I hire a small meeting room twice a week.  This gives me an incentive to get on as there are no distractions or windows to look out.

I'm back there tomorrow (13th January) in the hopes that I can work through the whole thing and be done with it.

Outline of presentation

I've been giving it some thought about the areas of portrait photography to cover in my presentation.  There's such a wealth of information about how to put together a presentation on the internet that it's hard to separate the useful from not relevant.

One point made is that I should have between 12-16 slides to last for 15 minutes.  Fifteen minutes doesn't sound very long but it can seem forever if talk not properly prepared.

I think the ouline will look like this:

Suggestions for slides:

Slide 1 - Title / name

Slide 2 - Tell them what you’re going to tell them

Slide 3 – Time scale 19th century to present day

Slide 4 – 19^th century style

Slide 5 - Images

• Not sure yet

Slide 6 – 20^th century – 20s/30s

Slide 7 – Images from             

• Julia Margaret Cameron

Slide 8 -50s/60s

Slide 9 – Images from

• Cecil Beaton

Slide 10 – 1980s/2000

Slide 11 - Images from

• David Bailey

Slide 12 – Present day

Slide 13 - Images from

• Not sure yet

Slide 14 - Selfies

Slide 15 - Tell them what you’ve told them

Slide 16 - Any Questions

Not sure how to go about this assignment

Not sure how to go about this assignment as there are no helpful exercises to guide me in, so I emailed my tutor and here's her reply.

Katrina Whitehead
to me

Hi Jennifer

Regarding Assignment 5, it is just asking you to do a presentation of a genre of photography that interests you. You could do a PowerPoint and record your voice, or you could set up a video camera and film yourself taking for 15 minutes in front of a PowerPoint. You appear to be drawn to Portrait Photography, so I would concentrate on this genre of work, looking at the history and some classic examples. This is an exercise in showing that you have understood the subject and are able to talk about it in detail. Please ring OCA if you do not have a video camera or recording facilities and they will be able to advise you on how to prepare your presentation. 

Hope this helps
Katrina

This gives me something to go on, so I'll give it a go.