Saturday, May 23, 2009

PTM 101

I am doing this presentation for some of the University admissions people that go out to college fairs. They're going through the whole School of Drama and I am supposed to bring them up to speed on PTM. Here's what I've got:



Missing anything huge? Anything factually wrong? Too confusing?

I feel like I am committing the worst sin of Powerpoint: doing a presentation I am going to pretty much read word for word. But I think if they have the slides after the thing it will be more useful than a somewhat more dynamic presentation when they're in the room.

Ah PowerPoint - what would we do without you!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool. Couple suggestions:

I'd remove the grid background, or make it twice as "light"... right now it makes it very hard to read some of the text.

If you can, I'd make a second version where you strip out any text less than 16pt (or strip out your third tier of bullet points on some of the slides, whatever pt size that is... it is a bit small). Just remove them from your "presentation deck", and then speak to those points w/o reading them. People will listen to you more, and it will be much more interesting.

Then you can hand-out/refer them to this deck that has all of the info baked in for future reference. If possible, don't hand this version out beforehand either, or they will just ignore you and read it while you are talking.

David said...

ok, but contentwise?

Brian said...

Page 18 needs a proofread.

"All PTM applicants must to a School of Drama interview..."

Blake said...

Slide 18 has a typo-- "All PTM applicants must to a School of Drama..."

Sounds like you left out a word in there somewhere.

Unknown said...

I think it's great - I especially like the "who we're looking for" section. I think it's really important to emphasize that you're looking for a wide range of people, even those who don't have specific theater experience in the fields they're applying for.

I'd add something in the portfolio section about including other activities/interests that they're passionate about, even if they seem to have nothing to do with what they're applying for. I know at my interview the faculty were really interested in the art that I'd done, even though it didn't really matter to the stage management stuff - it just showed how hard I worked at something I was passionate about.

One other thing - I think you've got a typo on p.18 - "applicants must TO a School of Drama interview..." - I think that should be "do"?

David said...

Josh - smallest type is 20 point - I'd read that as a lower bound some other place.

For the other, is that a setting, or are you talking about two seperate files?