Final Presentation Storyboard

Photo of a drawn example storyboard.

Image courtesy of Ianus

As a team you need to prepare for two final presentations. The first will be your final video and the second will be an in-person presentation at the show case. This assignment you will present a plan for both. There are two deliverables for this assignment:

Storyboard for your final video
Basic script for your final presentation.

1. Storyboarding

At this point in the semester I will assume that you know how to build a storyboard. Make one for your final presentation video. This is your big moment so make it look good.

This presentation should focus on the final outcomes and conclusions of your project. Here are things you may want to include:

Team name, title and members
Description of the problem your team was charged to solve
Your conclusions and results
Demos
Summary figures
A thank you for the community partner

2. Presentation Plan

Your final presentation will be in the form of an in-person ~5 minute lightning talk. You will be expected to stand and give a quick summarized version of your project. These types of presentations are difficult because it is hard to condense a semester long project into 5 minutes.

There will be some time after your lightning talk where your team will field questions and have discussions about your work. This is very important. This is the time where you will talk with your community partner and possibly others in person. Use this opportunity to network! get your name out there if you are looking for a job. Ask other community partners if they are looking to hire anyone. This networking aspect is potentially more valuable to you than your lightning talk, so make sure you limit your lightning talk to 5 minutes. You don’t want time that you could have spent networking with community partners spent on a longer video. This is similar to the tower building excercise we did earlier in the semester. Plan it out and practice your 5 minute lightning talk so that you can cover everything you did in a concise and professional manner.

Please type up a plan (and practice) your presentations. This can just be a simple text document you put in your pubic team folder. Some things to include:

A short script or summary of what you plan to say.
A list of roles for the team.
What will your team wear?
What questions do you anticipate and how will you answer them?

Submission

Include a copy of the storyboard in your teams drive as a PowerPoint file. Give it a reasonable name so the instructor does not need to hunt for it.

Put your plan and storyboard in your public team folder so they can be reviewed by your peer teams on Monday. The title of the file should make it clear what it is. Something like:

“YYYYMMDD_Final_Presentation_Plan_”.

Evaluation

These storyboard slides will be graded on good effort attempt to follow directions and complete the project. Your assignment will be graded out of 25 points, based on the following categories:

Storyboard Completeness (5 pts)
Clear visual plan for your final video with logical flow and structure.
Script for Symposium Presentation (5 pts)
Basic outline of your in-person presentation, including key talking points and team roles.
Effort & Creativity (5 pts)
Thoughtful and creative approach to both presentation formats.
Submission Format & Naming (5 pts)
PowerPoint file correctly named and placed in the team drive.
Responsiveness to Feedback (5 pts)
Evidence that you reviewed and incorporated from previous feedback into your final plan.

Total: 25 Points

Post Evaluation

Review the feedback from your classmates and slides. Add additional information to your storyboard and finish making the video.

Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.