Giving a Talk to a Large Group

QUESTION
I'm giving a talk at our local civic center and am not sure which type of media would work best for a larger audience.

I have your set of cds for the computer, but no way of stopping it and discussing each phase. What do you recommend? I have a TV and dvd player, but no Powerpoint program for a computer (plus I think the screen is too small for the audience). Help!

ANSWER
Well, the powerpoint slides we offer would have really helped you out. If you have powerpoint, you can create your own. Not hard to do.

Otherwise, if you have a screen to use, you could rent an overhead projector. Need room to be dark. You make full size sheets of what you want to show and have them converted to "overlays" (image is transferred to a type of clear plastic). Kinkos can do them for you. You place the overlays on the bed of the projector and it magnifies the image onto the screen for you. It's the old fashioned way.

Apart from that, then use oversized props in your talk to illustrate. You could create a "living room" setting on stage behind you. You didn't say whether your talk is about staging or redesign, but at least you'd have something to use to illustrate a point or two.