Vidoons from http://www.vidoons.com are a great way to create a unique PowerPoint presentation by adding highly watchable cartoon animations to your presentation.
This example is a VIDOON video we made for an private equity firm. It features likenesses of the company CEO and other executives and team members. This video was played to the audience at the start of a presentation. It helped grab the audience's attention and made a big impact on those who saw it resulting in very positive feedback for the executive who was giving the presentation.
We all love a good story and I believe story telling is the key to a really effective presentation. Ask yourself how visual is your script?
Try to use metaphors where-ever possible to reinforce key points. For example, you may want to explain that, "76% of those questioned admitted they weren't doing enough to plan for the future". Can you think of a metaphor that might underline this point and make it more impactful and memorable?
For example, you could tell your audience, "that's a bit like driving a car down a hill with your eyes closed. We don't know where we're going, we're not in control and something unpleasant could be the result".
Using metaphors, anecdotes and other simple story telling devices is one of the most effective ways of bringing a presentation to life.
The power of PowerPoint or Prezi (as opposed to simply talking to a roomful of people) is its visual capability. You have the power to show your audience things; images, photos, videos, animations, sound, music etc.
But despite this awesome power, it's amazing how many speakers still simply put words onto their slides. In extreme cases this makes for the typical "death by PowerPoint" where the speaker shows a slide with a lot of words on it and then reads out the words.
Even technical presentations or sales presentations which require charts and graphs can be brought to life with a little creativity and imagination.
I recently attended an academic presentation where the speaker showed a lot of graphs and statistics. But he also boosted these with some nice visual metaphors. One of them was showing how hard it was to sell a product. Here he showed an image of someone trying to push a wagon up a hill. It was the image that stuck in my mind.
We all know a picture is "worth a thousand words"; so how many words is a video worth?
It's just as easy to drop a video clip into a PowerPoint presentation or Prezi presentation as it is to insert a graphic. The results can be stunning and highly memorable.
There's something about how we're hard-wired as human beings; our eyes are attracted to movement. Watching video on a screen is irresistible.
Vidoons from http://www.vidoons.com are a great way to create a unique PowerPoint presentation by adding highly watchable cartoon animations to your presentation.
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kizadory 4 months ago