Kiosk Presentation: The New Pornographers

For this project we had to make a kiosk presentation on PowerPoint. We had to choose a favorite musical artist or band and have a full presentation with music that would run on its own. I have used PowerPoint before for various class presentations, so I didn't think it would be that different. I found out that there is a lot more to PowerPoint than pre-set templates (which we were not allowed to use).

For the first slide, we had to provide a title slide, with the band's name, our name, and some pictures (but no pre-set templates). I was lucky to have found the picture I did of the band, one that just blended into the rest of the slide. I wanted to make the first slide simplistic but still interesting.

For the second slide, we needed a bulleted list of interesting facts. I decided to use the picture I did because I thought it would be funny if it is a slide about who the band is comprised of and how they came to be, when you can't see their eyes. I added the picture behind the list because I didn't want the slide to have a little bit more to it.

For the third slide, I had to provide a CD cover and track names/times. The times and names had to be formatted so they aligned exactly. I found this a little more challenging at times than I had expected, because some of the track titles were too long to fit on one line.

For the fourth slide we need a 4 row table with words and images. Instead of listing the four CDs the band had released and showed highlighted tracks etc, I decided to show where certain songs from this "indie" band had been featured in movies or television shows. I also added some images of the original CDs the songs had been on so that at least some of their CDs were advertised a bit.

For the fifth slide, we needed a works cited with working links (something that took me a little while to figure out). I had so many extra photos and posters that I had found, that I decided to make a collage of them as the wallpaper for the slide. I also decided to make a small advertisement of the band's upcoming CD, since there wasn't really a place for me to mention it in the previous slides.

Overall I was very happy with my slide show. I was nervous about the animation, though at first. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to animate the show so I figured that I might as well have it animated with no one else's animated than being the only one with no animation. At first I thought it may have been cheesy but I think it ended up just adding a little more interest and fun to the show.