Producing multimedia presentations
If you are launching a climate change campaign or planning an event in your school or local community then a multimedia presentation is a powerful tool to get your message across.
In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore showed just how effective a multimedia slide show can be. A few carefully selected photographs, key facts and informative graphs can effectively present scientific evidence and help your audience to understand the issues surrounding climate change.
Downloadable Multimedia Presentation Design and Delivery resource
PowerPoint file: Multimedia presentation
PDF file: Multimedia presentation
This resource, developed by media education consultant Rick Instrell, is available free to download in PowerPoint and PDF formats. It offers practical advice on how to plan, write, design and deliver a multimedia presentation.
The Climate Change image gallery has photographs that are freely available for Scottish schools to use in multimedia presentations.
Global Warming Art features a wide range of climate change images and graphs that are available free for educational use.
Evaluating and improving
Once you have created your presentation find some ‘critical friends’ that will give you useful feedback and constructive criticism. Make cuts, change text and work to improve your presentation.
When you finally present to an audience make time at the end to ask them for feedback.
'Ask the audience what they think.
Did it work for them?
Did they understand what you were trying to say?
Did it make a difference?
All of this information is valuable for your next campaign.'
Climate change: Your guide to inspiring action, Act on CO2, DEFRA
Next steps
We want to see your multimedia presentations. You could video your event or email us a copy of your presentation and a script.
Think about adding your multimedia presentation to your blog, your website or your school’s website.