Presentation

Animations and Transistions

Advanatges

How is it used

Introduction

Software features

Multimedia

Who uses it?

Making it look good

Disadvantages

It is difficult for the audience to take notes while the presentation is taking place, otherwise they lose concentration

It is used when someone wants to explain or illustrate a topic to someone

Mainly uses Microsoft Powerpoint

Sales People

Teachers

Students

For a topic they have been studying.

give presentations to customers, clients or managers.


presentation

For students have a concise set of notes to copy from the board.

can be set up to run continuously on a screen.

usually loops automatically back to the beginning once it has finished

used when you want to give people information

Example Post Office use this method to inform people about their products whilst queuing.

can be printed onto acetates and used with an overhead projector.

can be printed out in handout form.

So audiences can make their own notes whilst the speaker is talking and to give them something to take away after the presentation.

easy to use

a large range of ready prepared templates.

large selection of different layouts

huge number of professionally designed templates available to purchase fairly cheaply from the Internet.

Each slide can have a different layout.

One slide can have bullet points to the left of an image

another slide can have a main title and bullet points underneath

another one can have a graph or a hierarchy diagram.

master slide

set up things which you wish to appear on every page such as a footer or page numbers or a title.

animation effects

transition effects

Text

Images

Video

Sound

allows the speaker to keep the audiences' attention on them rather than distracting the audience with what is happening on the screen.

bullet points act as a prompt for what they need to talk about and enable the audience to keep track of what is being covered.

add visual impact to a presentation.

help to illustrate the point that you are trying to make.

help to break up a lot of monotonous text and give the audience something to focus their attention on.

add a different dimension to a presentation

it is important not to allow the sound to distract the audiences' attention from the main speaker.

Voice narration can be used during the whole presentation or for certain parts.

used to attract the audiences' attention or to show them something that could not easily be described just using words.

use existing footage from company archives, videotape libraries or personal collections or you can film your own.

Animation Effects

Action buttons or hyperlinks

Slide Transitions

used on slides to help you navigate through the presentation.

used to help you access a relevant website.

used to delay the appearance of bullet points on the screen

help to keep the audience focused on what is being talked about at that moment rather than letting them read ahead and not listen properly

used to add dramatic effect or visual interest.

can be set up to govern how you move from one slide to another.

set your presentation to be timed so that it moves automatically to another slide after a certain length of time.

used for informative presentations which are just left running for people to view as they walk past.

difficult to get automatic timing just right, some people read fast, some much more slowly

Fade

Blinds

Checkerbox

Make text large enough

Keep it simple

Pictures

Sound

Colours

Background

choice of background you use.

can enhance your presentation

really help to enhance your presentation if used correctly

Presentation software is incredibly easy to learn how to use

It is supplied with a large library of background templates and custom layouts

Presentations are easy to edit

Multimedia can easily be added to the presentation

Presentations can be easily output to different formats e.g. interactive whiteboard, digital projector, handouts

Excellent for summarising facts

Great for showing graphs/charts/diagrams to an audience

Can create a set of handouts for people to write on whilst presentation being given

Allows you to face your audience and make eye contact rather than facing the screen.

Audiences are often happy to sit placidly and not interact with the presenter

Not good for presenting certain kinds of information such as complex maths equations

It is all too easy to make a very bad presentaiton with too many animation effects and too much text, images

Presenters often just read from the presentation which is boring for the audience.