Chaos

I have to give a 7 minute presentation on Chaos! Any ideas

[Doctor]

The mind boggles.

You could try to recreate chaos with the audience.

Give ten members of the audience a task to do. Make sure that a couple of them involve shouting and a few of them are quite disruptive. Ideally make sure that you take a couple of plants along with you to get it going.

This will make for a very memorable presentation.

Another option would be to use the video clip from one of the Charlie Chaplin films (Modern Times I think) where he starts to try an improve production in a factory and chaos results.

[Doctor]

This is an excerpt from the plot of Modern Times

In one of the film's great opening scenes, the conveyor belt sequence, a masterpiece of choreography, the Tramp is a factory worker (Charlie Chaplin) whose job it is to tighten bolts on an endless series of machine parts - he is a small cog in the factory that exploits its workers. The key to successful nut-tightening is to perform his movements and tasks with clock-like tempo and precision. From his work station on the assembly-line, he holds wrenches in both hands to tighten nuts on a long stream of steel plates carried on the conveyor belt production line. Above him in the hierarchy of jobs, the foreman urges him all the time to keep up with the belt, and bullies him. When he pauses and itches for a moment, makes a gesture, or brushes away a troublesome fly, he causes tremendous, disruptive chaos for fellow workers down the production line, and frantically rushes to catch up and restore order.