Giving a presentation

Slides

Images

Text

Only important information

7 points or less

Large font

Highlight the main words

Graphs or tables should be easily digestible

Should help audience to understand the information

Enterteining

Better to have to few slides, than to many

Good presentation

Bad presentation

Speaker didn't practise

Confused structer

No interaction with the audience

Reading the slides

Slides are full of information

Monotous voice

Too technical

Speaker shows no interest in his topic

Speakes too fast

Speaker is credible and confident

Clear slides

Interesting and conterintuitive things

Easy to follow

Lots of examples and not too much theory

Speacker engage with the audience

Clear logical structure

Using body language

Make eye contact with audience

Leonard Franklin is the creator of the so called "Black list" - survey of the "most liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. He told us, how he accidently come up with it, and what ideas stands behind his creation.
Speaker doesn't use any slides, nor does he use text on paper. Yet his speech is easy to follow. Leonard is using gestures and doesn't forget to make eye contact. He interact with audience through questions as we follow him in his story.
This example shows us, that you can deliver some themes without using slides, as long as you have good logical structure and could keep audience attention.


Andrew Tarvin's presentation about humor contains a lot of humor of his own. His presentation could almost be named a stand-up. But this doesn't mean he doesn't have a point.
Andrew present his ideas in a funny, engaging and sinsere manner. His slides contain images, or short staitments in which, he highlight the main words. His usage of body language and intonation is brilliant.
It's easy and entertaining to follow Andrew, and even if your are not a comedy genius, you should consider using some of Andrew's tools to make your presentation bright and engaging.

Tommy Mccall is giving a lecture about infographics, so it's only natural that he has a lot of pictures on his slides. He doesn't have text on slides, and have a script on paper instead.
His presentation is good structured. What is really great about his speech is you can see how passionate he is about the subject. He gives various examples on a topic, to show how many different things you can achive just by using infographic design. He is also confident in his subject.