Getting there.
I've basically gotten the set down to the main arcs.
Down from roughly 180MB to 68MB, so it opens faster!
I spend the rest of tonight making slides come together a bit more so that every slide has all its components. Then I start the laborious task of animating. I would expect the final full brief to have something like 5,000 separate effects. You then combine a lot of the effects so you're looking at something between 500 and 750 clicks across 90 minutes.
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Well, having seen The (previous) Presentation twice, I have to say that I thought a lot of the visual effects were cheesy or worse, and the audio transitions in particular were -at best- distracting and often really annoying.
I'd suggest using animations only when really needed, and stick to -1 kind- of slide transition.
dave
p.s. This pamphlet by Edward Tufte on PowerPoint is worth every penny of the $7 he wants for it: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
Posted by David Emery | January 6, 2009 8:11 AM
There has always been a certain segment of people who don't like my presentation style.
But I would hate to play down to that standard. I like the money too much.
The style you advocate was the style a lot of superiors have tried to enforce on me over the years. I just find it boring, as does the vast majority of the audience (given feedback--good and bad--that I've received on well over a thousand presentations over the last 15 years), and so I go for more theatricality and sharp timing of animations and words (which is what gets me the talks).
Simply put, after I made my first million giving talks in this manner, I got over the notion of trying to make certain people happy.
I also took Tufte's class and have his books. His stuff is great on translating data into images, but he's an anti-PPT guy in the extreme--hence he comes off fairly boring in person (I remember multitasking throughout his talk because his style is very slow, very conversational, and his slides are completely static). If I had followed Tufte's advice, I wouldn't have a career.
Posted by Tom Barnett | January 6, 2009 3:33 PM