The last time that I remember viewing a speaking event that made use of presentation media was in a personal setting, rather than formal. It was at my cousin's wedding reception., so I suppose that in a manner of speaking it was a "formal" event, but the presentation was more casual and was amongst friends, families, and peers. My cousin was married at a very small church at Notre Dame that could only accomodate somewhere around 80 guests. Because of this they decided to have a second reception in California for all of his friends and family members that he could not invite or could not make it to the wedding itself.
At this wedding reception he showed a slide show of different stages in their relationship and a lot of pictures from the actual wedding. I thought that it was an especially effective use of the visual media because it made everyone there feel as though we were at the wedding, without actually being there. When I look back at his wedding reception I can picture the ceremony and the church vividly in my mind, as well as the bride in her wedding dress. I also thought that the earlier part of the slide show was excellent because he told the story of his proposal and included pictures taken shortly before and after and pictures of the place where the proposal took place. Because he and his wife (fiance at the time) lived in North Carolina prior to their marriage many of his family in California had not spent much time around his wife and had not seen them together during the earlier stages of their relationship. I felt that it helped me to picture the two of them as a couple more and less as the individual of my cousin whom I had known for a long time and the individual that was his wife whom I had spent almost no time around. I would say that it was a perfect use of presentation media and I don't think that I would have changed anything that he did.
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