Boring PP presentation, how can I make it more exciting?!

Graphics. Charts. Tables.
Use the word animation.

Float your points in from the side or the top or the corner.

photographs. sounds. even videoclips - you can import them all from internet. play around with designs and animations, PP can be a whole lotta fun!

I agree with Bella Dea - find graphics that relate to your topic (uh, hanging, in this case) and see if you can use them to highlight points or at least get a few laughs out of it. Well, if the audience is appropriate, that is. The tricks BD mentions are also cool - making texts appear in different ways: appear from side, top to bottom, a "swish" or whatever you might call it. Sometimes my friends deliberately insert funny words to describe boring topics, but again, I don't know if this would be appropriate for your audience - I don't want to make your grades suffer.

OK, thanks...I was sort of more thinking, what we could do to actually present it? We'll have some of the swishing and swashing etc, but we really need a way to talk to the audience and explain the point... We're going to have the powerpoint running behind us and we need to do something interesting in front of it.... Like a debate or something, but not a debate coz they're like boring......

how about stirring a debate, or getting people's attention via reading some historical speech / document in favor of the hanging - find something outrageous, something that today would sound ridiculous... tell stories of concrete people if you can squeeze it in (is it a short presentation?) - anything personal makes people identify more with the subject.... dunno, think about what sort of a thing captivates you when you're in the audience.

How about this to make a point?

Reyn beat me to it, but my grandfather always inserted a few naughty pictures to keep folks interested in his slide shows.

Don't over do the swishing and swashing, now. If you're format permits, you might take questions from the floor as they occur to your audience. Then, give them something they're sure to question. It might turn out to be interesting, and always helps pass the time.

OK thanks everyone....we're just gonna blag our way through it...being chavs, as it were....