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The better comparison is: watching a movie where the actors haven't learned their lines and are just looking down, reading the scripts they have in their hands.
War of worlds
When I watch a show with captions, I don't have a person standing next to the TV reading them to me. If we can read your slides and get everything we need to get, then why do we need you there to present?
isn’t that what the actors are doing?
Don’t just read the slides, perform the slides.
I don't talk at all. I just show the slides and play a kazoo in the background. A little technique I learned from studying Wagner.
I don’t hate when someone reads off slides if they know how to use their voice to make the language pop. Too often a slow, flat, monotonous read ends up ruining the slides, though.
Beyond these two options, though, is the chance to actually connect with your audience by being a person. Talk about what you know. Show them that you actually know your material beyond how it has been written in PPT — AND that you care enough to make this presentation interesting rather than yet another boring deck about this or that.
You’re presenting all the time outside of work, by the way. It’s in your small talk. It’s in the conversation that comes alive when you’re talking about something you’re generally passionate about. And it’s alive when you convey any emotion to someone else. This is business, so there’s an odd veneer if you’re not truly passionate, I get it. But you can take presentations as personal challenges to see how many people you can win over, if that helps.
If it’s a confidence thing, by all means read. You’ll get better with sharing material even just by reading — it’s what I did. And do still, sometimes. But for the love of god, please focus on how you sound. Don’t put me to sleep.
I like the logic. Where it breaks down is that captions scroll and disappear a line at a time, allowing the visual storytelling to dominate. Putting your full voice over on slides would leave no room for visual support, removing the need for visuals at all. At that point you might as well just read a script that's shown on screen.
Rising Star
There’s a reason you’re presenting. You need to make a show out of it and sell whoever you’re presenting to, especially as a creative.
If all you’re going to do is read off the slide, you could’ve just sent the presentation via email.
People who like captions for movies and tv are the same people who are too afraid to ask “what?” 4 times in a row. Cowards.
Bummer. We can’t say anything anymore.
I don’t ever watch movies or shows with captions??
No one ever complains if a good presenter reads a line from a side verbatim. They complain when a bad presenter doesn’t seem to know what they’re presenting, and reads the sides while adding nothing.
Saying “don’t just read the slides” is saying your presentation skills need work, it’s not solely a commentary on the behaviour.
Like does anyone get truly annoy by it
Bit of a pet peeve for me. I have yet to hear someone read off a slide and have it sound as engaging. Presentations can be boring as is, and reading off a slide doesn't sell in my experience.
If you don’t know the difference between video entertainment with captions and a professional slide presentation, you probably have deeper issues than reading off slides
people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.
— bukowski
I perform the scripts versus reading them. Dramatic pauses, voices etc. but I read them because I put a lot of work into every word. They said, I’ll also pepper in little bits of added detail.
Just don’t let Christopher Nolan mix your audio