NEED OF VISUAL AIDS IN PRESENTATIONS
Presentations are very very important. They are the best way to describe about anything. Even it is a product evaluation,or a buisness description you have to give a well furnished presentation on it. Unless the client knows this is a valuable product, the work done till the last moment will be a waste,real waste.
We will have a look on how visual aids play a major role in presentations. They are effective in making presentations of certain kind, and can be an utter failure in some cases. visual aids include power point, chi writer, OHP, Lcd projector, Screens. They are helpfull while presentations, but it all depends on how the speaker takes control over it. Once the speaker loose the control of the thread then it will be difficult to get back control.
So the main advantages of a visual aids presentation are that they are helpful in giving a 3d view of the presentation.But they are also a problem creators since they wil make to shif the focus of the audience from the speaker. They are helpful to bring back the focus back to topic after having a interruption from the speaker or after answering a question from the audience. They are powerfull tools so that they can attract even the disordered listener. They can be well prefered while giving some technical presentations. These things can easily define the working of a product or a part. They attracts the persons interest into it.They are very effective in recollecting the ideas that u have gone through.
They should be presented in such a way that they are coming after the presentations by speaker.They also should maintain a good speed with the presentations. That will effectively help you in getting the control over presentations. They acts like references while taking presentations.They are helpful in presenting a presentation point by point.They are effective tools.
They are also time killers.They will throw audience into boring mode if the presentation given and the visuals are running on different paths.
They will make the audience bored , if the way in which they are arranged are also in a disorder, if they are in not working properly and loading properly. So while using Visual aids it would be better if we arrange the rehersal before the real one. Its a good practice to check the order of aids as you want to do it in real presentations .Changing the slides or sheets should be as if the audience will get enough time to go through them.
Visual aids are powerfull tool if used in the right mix.They can make a presentation real success. They are very effective in taking audience into hand.