Powerpoint Reloaded: How to turn your slides into a cinematic experience
Mon 9 Dec 2024 17:00 - 19:00 GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
Powerpoint Reloaded: How to turn your slides into a cinematic experience
Do you want to avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’ and break free from endless bullet points in your presentations? Unlock the full potential of PowerPoint and elevate your presentations into captivating, cinematic experiences.
In this interactive two-hour virtual session, "PowerPoint Reloaded" we will guide you through a transformative journey, showcasing how mundane and cluttered slides can be brilliantly revamped using advanced techniques.
We will walk you through a step by step process on how to integrate dynamic animations, cutting-edge visuals, and compelling auditory elements to not only enhance your storytelling but also keep your audience riveted from beginning to end.
Target Audience:
This course is designed for professionals across all industries who are tasked with creating impactful presentations, including technology professionals, marketing specialists, educators, business leaders, and anyone eager to transform their standard slides into powerful narratives. Ideal for those who want to engage, inspire, and leave a lasting impression on their audience through visually stunning presentations.
Key Benefits:
Revitalise Your Presentations: Learn how to apply professional animation and transition techniques that add life and movement to your slides.
Enhance Visual Appeal: Master the art of using overlays, text cut-outs, and striking imagery to create visually engaging slides.
Set the Tone: Discover how to effectively use music and sound to enhance the emotional impact of your presentations.
Break the Monotony: Integrate video content seamlessly to diversify your presentation's format and maintain audience engagement.
Interactive Elements: Explore how to use tools like annotation and 3D elements to make presentations more interactive and memorable.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Utilise morph transitions and custom animations to create seamless, dynamic visual flows between slides.
Apply advanced formatting techniques to layer text over customised shapes, images, and videos to enhance the visual storytelling element.
Select and integrate appropriate musical tracks and sound effects to alter the mood and underscore key points in their presentations.
Employ principles of visual language and design to reinforce the central message of their presentations, making them clear and impactful.
Incorporate video content effectively to provide breaks in narration and add depth to the presentation narrative.
Annotate slides during presentations to highlight important information and engage the audience.
Design with 3D elements, like a rotating moon or other relevant models, to provide a stunning visual experience that captivates the audience.
"PowerPoint Reloaded" is more than just a training session; it’s an invitation to revolutionise the way you use PowerPoint. Join us to unleash the full storytelling potential of your slides and leave your audience not just informed but truly inspired.
Course Prerequisites:
Basic proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint — ability to create and format slides.
Familiarity with multimedia tools — experience inserting and editing images, videos, and audio.
Access to Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 or later — this ensures compatibility with features like morph transitions, 3D models, and advanced animation capabilities.
WOW! I already knew that PowerPoint had a lot of possibilities to create “engaging slides” for an audience, but Grant and Paddy just demonstrated during this course how you can become a Magician and treat your audience to what they call a “cinematic experience”. The PowerPoint Reloaded course is very well designed, with a lot of good examples in the beginning to get you excited and later on all the “secrets” were revealed so that I ended up inspired and motivated to do these “tricks” myself next time!
This course is a “must follow” for every professional that uses PowerPoint to facilitate meetings! Why? Because after this course you never ever want to create slides the boring way!
Ferry Timp from the Netherlands
About The Trainers
Paddy and Grant are passionate Visual Thinkers and are the co-founders of The Visual Jam, a global meetup for creative thinkers of almost 2000 members.
PARDEEP (AKA PADDY) DHANDA
Paddy Dhanda is an Agile Practice Director and former Head of Agile learning for a global bank where he rolled out Agile education to over 100k agilists.
Paddy is passionate about creating engaging learning experiences through visual thinking, gamification and storytelling. He regularly shares insights with industry thought leaders via his podcast, the Superpowers School. He also tells really bad jokes according to his two young children.
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GRANT WRIGHT
Grant has over 20 years’ experience of delivering and leading enterprise-scale transformation and digital service design across government and financial services sectors. He is a Principal Consultant and Director of Scarlett Solutions, a UK based consultancy specialising in business analysis/architecture, agile product management and business transformation.
Grant combines his passion for business analysis with tools & techniques from other fields such as user/customer experience (UX/CX), P3M and lean / agile delivery in order to clearly define problems and identify effective solutions for his clients. He actively practices Visual Thinking throughout his work and is passionate about its ability to create alignment, improve understanding and generate creative ideas.