Proposal Presentation - Slide Deck Creation

A Week 4 deliverable is to present for 5 minutes to propose the idea of my dissertation. This will be delivered to the class group, as well as 3 lecturers. For the presentation, I needed to create a slide deck to offer visual aids to support my verbal presentation.

The slide deck needed to cover my research title, research question, aims, objectives, significance, methodology and expected outcomes of my dissertation. It also needed to be visually appealing and allow me to explain all these points clearly and succinctly.

I decided, as my dissertation is going to have AI as a main topic, I wanted to use some AI-generated imagery in my proposal presentation, so as not to overwhelm the audience, I decided to limit the AI imagery to the main title slide and the section title slides.

To generate the imagery, I used Google Gemini. For the prompts, I requested that it generate an image using the title or the section title. Below are some of the results.

Title Slide

Research Question

Outcomes

In some cases, these images required the use of multiple prompts to obtain something usable. In truth, none would have been what I would have chosen myself, but I wanted to use them in my presentation to show the hit-and-miss nature of imagery generated by AI.

For the rest of my presentation, I stuck to tried and tested best practices for slide deck design, I picked a suitable font and used Coolors.co to create a colour palette I could use that would complement my content. For the rest of the imagery in the slide deck, I used Adobe Stock and found a series of images with a hand-drawn style, which I chose to offset the AI imagery I had used.

https://coolors.co/2d3142-4f5d75-bfc0c0-dd1c1a-eb5e55

https://stock.adobe.com/uk/search/images?filters[content_type%3Aphoto]=1&filters[content_type%3Aillustration]=1&filters[content_type%3Azip_vector]=1&filters[content_type%3Avideo]=0&filters[content_type%3Atemplate]=0&filters[content_type%3A3d]=0&filters[content_type%3Aaudio]=0&filters[fetch_excluded_assets]=1&filters[include_stock_enterprise]=1&filters[content_type%3Aimage]=1&filters[is_editorial]=0&order=relevance&serie_id=1587600252&limit=100&search_page=1&search_type=pagination&load_type=page&get_facets=0&asset_id=356106850

I also decided to keep the amount of text on each slide to a minimum and add additional details through the spoken aspect of my presentation. Overall, I was happy with my presentation design and looked forward to presenting it to the class.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-6MBZyiJ_r5qkb5cm7Uf_igPkhBxOUovbdR0HzavvyQ/edit?usp=sharing

Delivery

I was given a time in the afternoon, after lunch, to present, so for the first half of the class, I watched my classmates present their proposals. I was very impressed with some of the ideas and felt that while some people were also researching AI, none were looking at it from the perspective of accessibility.

I was pleased with how the proposal presentation went; my lecturers seemed pleased with my delivery and the content. My presentation was slightly short at around four and a half minutes, but after it being much longer in practice, I could live with that.