The Presentation Night Situation

This project covered the end-of-season football presentation slides for Montrose Football Club — all junior football teams, plus the senior Montlow presentation.

So, just a small job.

The aim was to give every team a polished and consistent presentation while still making room for the details that mattered: awards, players, coaches, team moments, milestones and the season that had somehow already reached presentation night.

Presentation nights hold a lot. Proud families, tired volunteers, speeches, photos, awards, thank-yous and approximately one million names that all need to be spelled correctly. No pressure. Very relaxing.

I needed the decks to look strong on a big screen, which meant clear structure, bold type, readable layouts and enough consistency that the whole night felt connected.

Each team needed its own moment, but the overall design still had to feel like one club presentation rather than a collection of separate files that had just met each other backstage.

The slides had to make space for award winners, player details, team photos, coaches, milestones and season moments without making every screen feel overloaded.

Which is the entire trick with presentation design: make a lot of information look like it behaved willingly. Even when it absolutely did not.

The finished decks gave the club a more polished and consistent presentation experience across the night.

Each team had their own moment, the awards had a stronger visual structure, and the whole presentation felt more connected from start to finish.

It helped the event feel organised, club-ready and visually stronger on the big screen — without every team looking like they had been assembled in a panic five minutes before the event.

A lot of slides. A lot of names. A lot of layout decisions. Somehow, it became a thing.

This kind of project works well when an event needs to feel planned, polished and slightly less like it was built by volunteers running on coffee and group chat updates.