Multiple Presentation Ideas

As I begin to invent scenes for the multimodal presentation, I find myself choosing between multiple options of visuals and various levels of technical difficulty. Since I’ve never created a film before, I want to limit this endeavor to something I can accomplish in a weak and to a topic that will represent my entire proposal in five-minutes. Below I’ve sketched some initial ideas that I will turn into a storyboard over the weekend, but I would appreciate any advice or suggestions about how to create a persuasive presentation that catches the attention of the audience and highlights the main points of my proposal.

The profiles I want to examine are already multimodal, so the most obvious choice is to construct a film around existing profiles. I could use screenshots to turn web-based profiles into images and then transition through these images like pages in a book, a pseudo-viewbook of sorts. As a result, this presentation would resemble an admissions publication. While admissions are part of the strategic communication of a university, I want to show more than just this perspective.

However, profiles, in the traditional sense of the term, show a side or a perspective, and I think I want to play up this history in the multimodal presentation. Specifically, I want to include silhouettes as the visual manifestation of the original spatial profiles. To connect this representation to the university setting that I plan to analyze, I could create silhouettes of iconic university buildings (see silhouette of Clemson's Tillman Hall). These silhouettes would symbolize the university’s identity, and I could read descriptive profile passages to overlay the individual voices that construct this identity. Through this creative composition, I hope to convey the personal profile in conjunction with the university context of strategic communication. Specifically, I think the main point of this presentation will be to emphasize the construction of profiles and the construction of organizational identity. To make this connection more explicit, I could use some sort of transition that builds or deconstructs the image into pieces. Then the next image would display the actual profiles that partially construct the identity.

Another option is to interview my supervisor who edits the profiles I write for the Office of Publications and Promotion. She would be able to describe the current situation from a professional standpoint and perhaps explain why universities use profiles strategically.