Creative Presentation Ideas Please!

I have to do a presentation for my college professional guest services class. There are 4 people in my group including myself. The presentation has to be exactly 20 minutes (we are deducted marks if we are over or under). We were thinking of PowerPoint because it is easily controlled but it can be boring and unoriginal. We were also thinking of doing a skit but that can sometimes be unpredictable and childish. Can you give us any unique and memorable ideas? Or any ways in improving a PowerPoint presentation to make it interesting?

NB: Our presentation is about a restaurant that we will formally review and evaluate.

Thanks for your help!

[Doctor]

A couple of pointers. Firstly on timing. The secret is to rehearse the presentation. If you rehearse out loud in front of the group - ideally four times and time yourself you will be able to get your timimg right. As ytou do your rehearsals you will see hwt is working and where time is being lost.

PowerPoint - the secret of making PowerPoint better is to use images. Images are five times more memorable than bullet points - so I would certainly avoid using bullet points.
There is some information about how to add in pictures on this link -
[url]http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/powerpoint_ideas.htm[/url]
and about where to source images [url]http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/presentation_picture.htm[/url]

If you want to bring in a theme then an idea may be to use one of the celebrity TV chefs as an idea. E.g theme it like Gordon Ramsey's "Hells Kitchen or Jamie Oliver's School Dinners etc.

I hope this gives some pointers. I don't know if any of our other readers have any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

I need to make a powerpoint with 10 tips for bankning, how do I make this interesting and capture the audience attention?

[Doctor]

Sophia

There are a couple of techniques.

The "Top 10" or "Top of the pops" could give you an idea to cownt down to your Number 1 tip.

You could also do "10 tips in 10 minutes" You could do this as a timed presentation. You could face a clock towards the audience and get them to count down the minutes. This works best if you are well rehearsed.

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My presentation is 10 ways to simplify your banking. I was going to open up with some statistcs for shock value and then go into the presentation? do you have any ideas along this line? I am looking to make the content creative not just the actually presentation.

[Doctor]

I think that the statistics is a great opener.

If you want to hold and involve the audience you could make it into a multiple choice quiz. You could give three options A, B, C and ask them to call out the answers. You may have to prompt them a bit.

If noone is answering the questions (it does sometimes happen) then ask individual persons, and if they don't know ask them to guess.

You don't have to ask all ten facts - generally maximum effect is achieved in the first three.

Was this more in line with what you were looking for?

[SarahLynn]

I have to present on Freud's theories on crime.
This Proff is more interested in having us make fools of ourselves and entertaining her than she is about the material. My group consists of three people and we need some ideas to make this presentation really "POP". We want to be the most creative but are having a hard time coming up with crazy ideas.

HELP US PLEASE!!!!