Presentation Software

Presentation Software

1. Design Templates

   • Producing your own design for a presentation is quite hard
   • It is easier to use a template
   • Templates provide the design
   • e.g. positioning of items, font types and font sizes and backgrounds
   • You only have to create your own content

2. Custom Animation

   • You can animate what material goes onto a slide (done by the presentation software)
   • Can create your own animations that can then be added to presentations
   • You can set a motion path
   • That slightly moves and has a small effect
     • Subtle Animation
   • Spinning letters for example
     • Moderate Animation
   • Is quite active on the screen, with different components moving
     • Exciting Animation

3. Video & Sound

   • Can be used to 'spice' up the presentation
   • There are sound and videos built into the presentation software
   • Can be created by the user, or inserted into a presentation, or found on the inetrenet

4. Navigation

   • You can add buttons to help navigate around your presentation
   • They can be buttons, words and images linking to different parts of the presentation or external links

5. Narrator & Speaker Notes

   • Narration can be added to each slide in case the speaker is not present
   • Speaker notes can also be added at the bottom of slides

6. Printing Slides Format

   • Slides
   • Handouts
   • Notes Pages
   • Outlines

7. Ads

   • + more professional look
   • + they can be printed off in a range of formats
   • + they make full use of multimedia
   • + can be stored and transferred easily
   • + can be shown in a range of mediums
   • TV, projector, computer monitor, mobile phone

8. Dis'

   • - file size can be large because of lots of multimedia
   • - can be boring when you see the same things/the same types of things over again
   • - can take a long time to set up
   • - sometimes the focus is on how it looks instead of content
   • DEATH BY PRESENTATION