Illustrated Presentations

I have given presentations like this for studies. I have found about 25 slides will fill about 45 - 50 minutes. I have pictures with bullet points alongside them, then the slides printed out with more - clear - notes written to remind me further. The best thing to do is to rehearse it out loud, walking around your room.
If it is completely scripted you have that security if you get anxious, but it will lose some of its flow.

@pjgirl I have done presentations before which have been loosely scripted and I have had more freedom to move around. Back then I knew my subject pretty well and I was presenting to people I had got to know over the week. We had a connection and it was great. I would love to be able to do that again.

This time I will be talking about a completely new subject to people I hardly know, if at all. I know the subject now after spending the last 6th months researching it but I have never done a formal presentation on it.

My slides are mostly portraits so they only need to be up for a few seconds each.


This is a screenshot of part of my presentation.

That makes sense for reading, but not presenting. Presenting involves discussing the material. That is typically slower. Also depends on if questions will be at the end or during the presentation.

Don't stuff your presentation.

I have seen ppl make slides which are crammed full and are unclear.

Make a nice logical / story progressionnand let ppl ask questions--if they do, give them more. If they don't, don't worry.

Questions are not permitted during the presentation. The whole allocation of time is available for the presentation.

I have written 90% of it which comes out about 3000 words. I thought there would be more. Once I have finished the draft copy I will have a read through. That will give me my timing.

I have a lot of slides. Probably too many. They are pretty much all single pictures of faces, paintings, buildings etc. There is nothing to complicated to get bogged down in.

Is that 45 minutes expected to be all presentation?

Many public lectures I attend allow time for questions after the uninterrupted talk, which seem generally from 30 to about 45 minutes.

Also, presumably you will be illustrating the lecture, so give people reasonable time to see each slide.

Talk slowly. Catch their attention with a joke or something dramatic and unexpected in the first few moments. Use visual aids if you can - Powerpoint, maps or objects; leave time for questions at the end and ensure you have a conclusion to tie up your points.

Oh, also check to make sure your tech works--don't waste your time on "just fiddling with it" to try to integrate a laptop with the existing system.