After writing my essay I had to put all of my information into a slideshow,. Either an ignite, or a Ted Talk. An Ignite is where you have a three minute presentation, and slides turn every fifteen seconds. A ted talk is a presentation that you can turn the slides whenever you want, and you can make your presentation as long as you want. I chose the Ted Talk because I have complete control over when the slides turn.

Before I could start my slide show, I had to make a script. I started by copying and pasting my essay onto a google doc. I then adjusted it to make it sound like it would sound if someone was talking to you in person. One thing I did to adjust my script was that I made it sound less formal / more entertaining. Once I had my script finished I had to make my slides. After all what’s a slideshow without slides.

I started by finding important images that were crucial to my project, such as the first elevator. Once I had these Images I found more entertaining images that went well, with what I was saying. I then separated my script into parts. Since I had twenty-four slides, I split my script into twenty-four parts.

After my basic slides were done I had to make my presentation even more entertaining for the audience. One thing I did was ask the audience questions, such as: “Has anyone here ever been to the Freedom Tower?” Another thing I did was add animations. The thing with animations is that any unnecessary animations can cause a distraction and you don’t want that. I added two animations, one of which showed where the Freedom Tower was on a scale. The other was when I was talking about a building that sunk into the ground, I made the building sink down into the screen.

So far I think that I am making a lot of progress on my Capstone Project, and so far in my few rehearsals I have done well. I memorized all of my lines and talked at a steady pace. But the most important part is that I might have gotten some people interested in skyscrapers, and I taught them quite a few things about them.