I'm taking a speech class. We've covered this before.
The upcoming assignment is to give a 10–12 minute informative speech with visual aids. Since I gave a seminar on how to buy a car last semester for the car club, I figured it would be easy to rewrite it into this speech. The seminar I gave was around an hour, but the core content can be glossed over in about 10 minutes.
Instead of using my old slides, however, I reworked the presentation so it includes photos depicting the primary talking points. The name of the presentation is Tips & Tricks for Buying a Car (in contrast to the old title, Buying a car the Techie way: a free seminar on how to avoid getting screwed by the dealerships).
Here they are, for your amusement. The slide titles are placed just below the images. In most cases, each photo illustrates a single tip.
 Introduction |
 Bring a skeptic |
 Don't let the test drive commit you |
 Stick to your guns |
 Unused |
 Cash doesn't impress dealerships |
 The salesman is a person, too |
 Credits |
The one titled "The salesman is a person, too" is subtitled, Rock on, Mr. Salesman.
So here's how we did it: Will Kwan grabbed his Canon Powershot S410 and I grabbed three changes of clothes, and we headed out to the golf course parking lot—and later, the lobby of the Workman center. We spent a lot of time sizing up shots and working all the blocking in, and ended up generating something like 80 shots. The entire time I was switching outfits and striking many goofmaster poses.
Afterwards, I merged combinations of poses into the eight shots above. Photoshop is my friend...and lord and master.
My face came out really red in the indoor shots. I fixed this for the presentation, but didn't work the changes back into the original merged photos. It was really toasty wearing two shirts in the already-warm Workman lobby, and the white-balance only made it worse.
I would have waited to post these shots because I really don't want to give the secret away in my speech class...but I doubt anyone in there actually reads this. I may post the presentation, eventually, too, but that would require working it into a format other than PPT. Eventually.
Update: All done! Here's the PDF. Ignore the first two slides—they got printed sideways, for some reason. Plus, I've posted a PDF of the PLEASE BUY CARS sign from slide 6, so you can recreate the magic and excitement of watching my presentation; the sign even comes in the authentic action typeface, ARIAL BLACK!
Fantastic!