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.