Time & Cost of Visual Aids

Video Transcript

"Now the next thing we have to look at is time and cost. I've spoken again, briefly, about the cost of hand outs. You need to think about that with all of your visual aides. How much money am I going to have to spend? Am I going to buy a box of forty transparencies which will run you about forty dollars and just use one? Something to consider. That's very different than buying a piece of poster board for .89 cents or a dollar. You want to look at the cost and make sure that it's cost effective. Is it really worth it for me to spend forty dollars for this one transparency? Is this visual aide that essential to my presentation? If it is? Spend the forty dollars and buy the transparency. Or could I possibly do a chart on this or draw it on the chalk board? Figure all of that out. Also you want to figure in your time. Is it going to take me four hours to make this transparency? Or twenty minutes? Is it going to take me four hours to put together a power point? Or twenty minutes? Is it going to take me however long to make a poster? You want to figure all of that in because what you want is for the visual aide to be worth the time and money that you spend. Depending on how it will enhance your speech it may not be worth the time or the money. So again I go back to my statement. Don't just do it for the sake of doing it. Find a way, find the way to enhance your speech."