[Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I think the trick is to keep them moving. Have them change on the slide
projector timer. Each one five or ten seconds. If you stop and talk about
one for more than 20 seconds you loose your audience. They just want you to
shut up and see the next one. They are sitting in a dark room. They want to
go home an watch their flat screen where they can have the lights on and go
to the bathroom a lot and raid  their own fridge.
50 minutes one every 5 seconds is 600 slides.
No you'd not want to do that.

Don't turn off the timer.
Go back and show them one or two again to go into the big story about them
if there is lots of time left over and everyone is keyed up about hearing
the back story,

Have the Powerpoint show emulate in all ways a real projector slide show.
Not backgrounds. Black.
Real slide shows have title slides though.
And for heavens sake no nothing moves across the screen.


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> From: Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:02:24 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] How many pictures for 1-hour presentation?
> 
> Peter,
> 
> My rule of thumb is no more than 150 images, 100-120 is preferred for
> travelogues. It all depends on how much story there is behind each picture.
> For Powerpoint presentation, when I use to give them, 3 minutes per slide 
> is
> the average.
> 
> Regards,
> Spencer
> 
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 13:53, Peter Klein wrote:
> 
>> I've been asked to give a presentation at work on my trip to Israel.  Many
>> of you have seen the photos I have to choose from. Does anyone have a rule
>> of thumb about how many photos can be reasonably shown in a 50-minute
>> presentation?  I'll be narrating, and obviously some pictures will have a
>> very quick narration, some more.  Q&A at the end will be additional time
>> beyond the 50 minutes.
>> 
>> I'll be using the web-sized images I've posted on the LUG, with a 1024x768
>> projector. I did a test run last week, and found that Irfanview in
>> full-screen mode works nicely without the ghastly resizing that PowerPoint
>> does. I can interpolate a few maps and titles by file-naming them so they
>> display in the right order.
>> 
> 
> 
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