INFOMERCIAL PRESENTATION ASSIGNMENT

FIRST, watch the 13-Minute YouTube “Top 10 Best Infomercial Products” video on the INFOMERCIAL page of our blackboard.

SECOND, invent a product that you want to ‘pitch’ in your Infomercial Presentation.

THIRD, prepare an INFOMERCIAL PRESENTATION based on the hypothetical product that you have ‘invented.’ Think of a product that does not exist, but that you think people would be interested in owning. It need not be ‘feasible,’ or even ‘possible.’ If you want to sell us a skateboard that flies, go for it. We already have cars that parallel park themselves, but what about a car that converts to a boat for marine navigation: no more bridge tolls! (Invent a real, physical product, not an app or software program or service. It must be a physical product that your customers can purchase, and have delivered, etc.)

You must use PowerPoint presentation software, which is available to every CUNY student via your free Office 365 account. You must then upload your Infomercial PowerPoint to the ASSIGNMENTS page of the Blackboard. Make sure that your presentation is in the proper (.pptx) format, and make sure that it opens and works after you have uploaded it.

Your PowerPoint must have no less than seven (7) slides, and must include images of your product, contact information (make it up), purchasing information (how much, how to order), and so forth. You are being graded on your content, and your presentation. Please note: the level of effort that you put into this assignment will be easy to determine, and easy to grade, based on your content.

For this fully online course, we will not be making live, physical presentations. Therefore, you will not be making your audio (verbal) presentation to accompany your slides. However, you will add your verbal presentation, the words that you would speak during your presentation, to the Notes section of each slice. (Use the ‘View’ tab and select ‘Notes Page’ to add your speaking part for each slide. Type exactly what you would say while presenting each slide. Do NOT simply read what is on the slide. Your verbal presentation is the more important part of the presentation; the slides, images, and bullet points are only to provide visual support for your verbal presentation.

When designing your PowerPoint presentation, avoid too many words on the screen, and do not read the captions that accompany your visual images. Rather, let the visual images and captions serve to highlight what you are saying as you present each slide.
As per Chapter 14, make sure that your presentation includes:

An interesting opening:

An attention-getting statement, or
A rhetorical question, or

A personal experience, or

An appropriate quotation;

A statement of purpose (what the speaker wants the audience to know, believe, and do when the presentation is finished);

An explanation of what the product is, how it will work, and how the consumer can purchase one.

Refer to Ch. 14, and use the checklists and summary in preparing your presentation.