the days of presentation slides

[Jonathan Parsons]

When I first began 35 mm slides were the format to present and only occasionally would an overhead be used. We liked that because it kept things interesting for us. In early 90’s some presentations had computer projections and we used to have to set up a projector on the stairs and we had to put abstracts and all sorts of books underneath to balance it. We went through 3 or 4 years like this—wheeling out the projector-- because maybe the first year only 2 people needed this and then it started to be one person a meeting so eventually we got a permanent fixture projection and that is what we have today. Now 99.9 %, I would say of all presentations are computer based.

Things change, technology changes and I would say the next thing would be the ability to not even make contact with us [the audiovisual department]…I mean we can now take a presentation off an email account, put it on the projector and go from there.