My dad recently went to his naval academy’s class reunion, and one of the guys in the class made a slideshow. Apparently he used some video from YouTube or something, and he wasn’t able to remove the sound from the source, and it muffles out the narration.
My dad asked me to take a look at the files, clean it up, fix the sound, and convert it into a DVD for everyone to have. Unfortunately, the slideshow is hidden in a proprietary .exe file created by a program called PhotoDex ProShow, so I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to dig out the goodies and work my magic.
But as I was doing my research, I came across some interesting links about making better presentations. I wish some of my professors had heard about these techniques!
Bad Idea:
(For another example, check out this link of slide-umentation taken to an extreme.)
Good Idea:
Here are two simple tutorials on making better, more effective presentations. First, a very easy-to-remember rule-of-thumb -
For the entire speech in blog form, click here.
And here’s a second, slightly different guideline -
Pecha Kucha is actually a weird phenomenon now, and people get together to show each other pecha kucha presentations as entertainment. (Fellowship? We could have a Pecha-Kucha Night ourselves, or attend one in Sac!)
Anyway, hope that helps you in your presentations, or you can forward it to your professors!
hmm thank you dinh! i am probably going to doing presentations later in the school year, so i’m going to save this entry.