 I saw couple of submissions happening even till early morning today and some of them have not uploaded yet probably and they are on vacation which will come on later but I saw couple of them having made a big difference between what they had presented earlier and what they have uploaded now. So, there is certain amount of change I can see probably let us just go to one of the examples yeah this is the group love and hate is anybody from that group present now yeah I did not want to talk when nobody is here but anyway since you are here anyway I was going to talk good about you guys because this was the earlier slide what you had given out and we had heard comments on this right and this is what you are given now the same slide actually I wanted to just compare the recent slide and what is what is distinctly different in these two slides so what is distinctly different in these two slides so apart from the group people because they have done it anybody else has comments on this bullets just my audio communication is louder so I need to put the mic below okay yes so paragraph to bullets is one change anything else they have changed the by using colors by using colors right right so they have tried to highlight the keywords by using colors at time they have used color and italic but that is okay it is not disturbing your eyes so till then it is fine and they have also tried to chunk it into the equal proportions so one bullet is not too big than other so you can see even distribution of content which is eye pleasing mostly they added some template graphic to it and I do not know I am not able to relate to love and hate and it will not be nobody will be able to relate to it any which way like you mean you did not think much about whether it matches love and hate but I am coming to that point actually what graphic for or what strategy design strategy for what topic so anyway I will come on that but overall you can see a big difference between the two slides right and that is why I thought of choosing this as a example case to start off and there are many more but unfortunately since the submission time was way beyond my time of looking at it so last I think I checked in at around 2 o'clock and there were couple of them which are uploaded after that so I gave up after that and in the morning I just downloaded some of them and I was trying to see the similarities between the samples I had shown last time and the samples which are now uploaded okay your views on that what what else what did you do to get up to this point now and are you happy with this output you are happy okay and what were what was the thinking process why did you change from this point to that point if there are some comments anyway but like what was your methodology okay okay but there is another comment I have so if you have this kind of the one which I liked very much was that you start with a problem somewhere in the slide and end up with a bold question which will lead to the next slide so I think that strategy was used beautifully by these people I do not know because this is a PDF right now but whenever you present suppose it is bullet by bullet appearing then probably people will have the suspense that how can hate be related to love is the suspense point you want to bring at the end of the slide which will appear and it will not be projected in the first go so people will keep on guessing about you talk about love you talk about hatred and then you talk about something in fact the next slide is also very interesting in this presentation so for people having poor biology I think they have helped them a lot by actually showcasing the graphic where is what kind of thing but yeah this makes a lot of difference suddenly I know what is lying where and how are you going to relate to it so then subsequent slides actually explain the details of this but this is very interesting sentence this is where hate resides you know if you have to eliminate hate then what you have to do okay I just wanted to start off with these examples since I thought there was a lot of work being put up I had couple of more but let us just get into the main talk because I am not expecting more than you guys to come today since it is a long weekend I had of today's class so in the impressed part we saw color schemes and typography and we stopped at a point where we were supposed to discuss visual effects and something called appeal so what today we will just touch base upon visual effect because even after the class there were queries about visual effects how why and when so this is an important topic and I thought we will use that so there are this is a very common feature asked by lot of people should we animate characters and should we show that in a way that people find it very interesting and this dropping letters and flying letters are a very commonly used thing the second important thing which is used is having transition between the slides so what we are talking is transitions within the slides plus transitions between the slides and both have their own advantages and disadvantages I am coming to that now but when you talk about slide with transitions or the content with transitions there are a lot of ways you can show that there are door openings and there are some blasts and there are something like very popular page curls or the Venetian blinds there are now 3D ones have come with cube rotating and what actually you can see is the range is too much you can you can go on and on you change the tool you get newer effects and there is a talk like this may affect and all that and there is there is huge thing happening what happens is that after you see all that you just get mesmerized by the range available there and it is important that you should think about where was the topic what is the presentation going on here I am sure most of you must have forgotten by now what was my first bullet in the outline slide which I it was the first slide right because all these things took you away from the main content which was about visual effects and which was about yeah thanks so let us go back a bit and see what was the what was the whole thing about why did we start talking about visual effects and the reason is we if you remember 4 sessions back we started with this sentence everybody love stories and this sentence has this important love of important word of loves and the story telling part is what is now we are coming to once we have now finalized stories everybody everybody want stories that Hoga Mora but how will you make them love that story and that is where this visual effects can make or break the situation and a popular convention is this very famous debate about form or function so what comes first or what should be more prominent whether form is important or the function is important so my take on that is both are important especially in visual communication part because anyone is not adequate enough to suffice for other so if it is inadequate then you will have ineffective communication so and on the other side if you have extra attention to that then it will lead to chaos if you have everything in more proportions than required obviously it will have a chaotic scene so what I follow is that content and into bracket I have put in that for the given audience should definitely help you to choose all these things in the order of what I have written in and that is why apart from the plan part which we discussed because that has a big overlap on the content thing but after you have freeze on what you have to show then you should be able to choose a good visual for the content what you have selected you should also create a appropriate design for that what we were talking about fonts and colors and all that and a suitable strategy of presentation so whether you use a spin wheel or a cube rotating or something like that or you have a video in between and then you just show whether you have a blank slide and just keep talking to people by the way how many people attended Professor Fatak's talk last time all of you right which tool did you use for his presentation power point what I did not attend he wrote right he wrote by hand there was no power point there was no keynote there was no praisey there was nothing right but how many people liked the talk by the way how many people liked it because he used it handwritten can you can you appreciate the same talk if it is given by Sameer using a power point of the same content yes or no maybe no right be blunt I am not offended it does not matter so it matters the most that he was catering to the audience he was talking to so he knew what you guys want to hear and the way you want to hear and that suspense value of what is he going to write next was all the thing which was holding you here and making coming all years to listen to him so that that was his strategy so that is what the point was the suitable strategy for the given content and the given audience is will we will which will make that thing different right probably you will not enjoy the same talk even if it is videographed at times because you have that positioning of like you can forward and all that because that kills us yeah so so the point here is when when you have such a situation and we are now talking in the context of what you people have been doing as a part of your assignments so this is where I actually this is what I suggest as a option and you can differ on that but there are many ways of doing it so there is no one correct answer to the whole problem so the thing which I follow is to go in this way to come to a strategy and then present you so what we will do now is okay so here is a comparison of top five presentation tools that has been done by a website called life hacker or something where they had taken a poll of some 13,000 plus users ask them what is the best presentation tool according to you and these are the votes now crazy got something 1700 votes as compared to PowerPoint which were it only got 6000 but anyway that was the next best and for people who are you aware of crazy how many people are aware of crazy 1 2 3 4 5 and a half okay fine but crazy is a is a tool which okay I will try to showcase that by the way just a quick recap what is the mistake or the what is wrong thing about this slide too small no why the balance is odd there should be a pie you can't you have to really go through it to understand which is bigger and which is smaller okay okay so crazy is how many percent to the total thing is not understood because it is presented in a horizontal bar chart okay maybe one thing anybody else ha font is too small okay one of the not arranged in a in a hierarchical manner low to high or high to low right okay I have pasted a screenshot screenshot is not blending with my style of template okay anything else we from the same point actually huh okay right right but the part of that answer was given to all because I copy pasted from a website so I didn't have control over the way they presented the content so which means that I have to do two things either I have to give credit to the people who have done it which is not done if you remember last time we we discussed this point or I have to recreate it in the way my audience will understand it right because this was the article in some website which people will anyway go and see because that was maybe probably sponsored by crazy I don't know about it but but they just wanted that red line of crazy to look prominently bold enough also there is one problem which I remember talking to you earlier on which is called about the spacing between two elements decides which is which are together right if you see everything is equidistant from each other so when you see that red dot in between beamer and power point it's very difficult to first of all start for people who don't know keynote is a presentation tool they will not start reading from there probably they start from beamer and then they will get confused about what is which is related to what so so these kind of mistakes anyway I just diverted a bit but why I wanted to show that was a case study which I want to bring out now it's my own work so I just thought of sharing that to avoid all copyright issues that I discuss my own case study the case study is about a paper which we had written about a game that game was supposed to teach students mathematics skills so after we created that game and we created some usability test about how children like it and all we thought that we had a content for a paper at a x conference that was a computer science conference and we wanted to present it there when it came to presentation per se from the paper onwards then we were deciding on the strategy visuals yes we had visuals because the game was built up we had visuals we had a screen capture of the video demo of the game itself and we could show that but we had to have presentation so how will we show that which had to show the entire process of how the game was developed and so this was this was one of the tools what we used I should have opened it earlier hey for people who know crazy in meantime can who said they know crazy right somebody put their hand up right okay so you have to volunteer till I just open that thing on crazy can you just tell the class what is crazy like in in four or five lines yeah come here so Prezi is a tool that is used to make presentations it is hosted in this this site Prezi.com in which it provides an online interface to make presentations like what we have in Google like it's almost like Google Docs it's ever level as a online service at the same time you can download the offline version also and the best thing about Prezi is the animations there are many templates which you can use for example there is something called the roadmap in which you can make slides and the slides will be like a roadmap and the animations is quite animations are quite good apart from it Prezi in Prezi you can you can just concentrate on the contents the other visual effects will be taken care of by the Prezi itself by the way you have to go until I get the network here I'm not getting that anyway no jokes apart but yeah what he said was right I'm still trying to pull out that Prezi which thanks Prezi like he said is online version and this is one of the problem which can be there if you use Prezi because you land up into a conference room where you struggle with the network and all your presentation is online somewhere because you have made last minute change from the hostel room or somewhere and then you want to pull out that online version and you don't have anything where the offline version is the older one probably and then you don't have a control on that so that happens and I am experiencing it that right now but let me just pull it out in the meantime I'll show you the other version which was created for this so I started with the standard PowerPoint tool also apart from this high-tech Prezi tool but that was okay so this this is yeah so this was created in a presentation tool called Keynote which is for Apple but it's similar to PowerPoint almost all features copy there and as you can see the template is standard blackboard or a greenboard template with what type something like chalk chalk or some font like that which which resembles to handwriting script font is used but it's not that fancy that it's unbearable for reading okay and like I said there were already visuals with me which had the screen captures of the game which was being presented there I also had a video of that and some things which were could be put up into tables I had put it up like that processes had arrows and mapping with the objectives to the applications or tools used or some charts which were showing the flow of the whole thing so additional features which were not readable like this one here had a pop-up like this which would show you the text because it was not readable at that size and so on and so forth for example yeah feedback was put up into callouts so that people relate to it as somebody spoke and also in quotes so to say that it was about it yeah and let me see if I can still get the offline praisey yeah it says math amazing will this SWF work by the way it's offline version a bit old but yeah probably it should work whoops trouble with your crazy what is to be done in these cases any ideas yeah download yes but only after you get to the net right I'm not getting to the but I had offline version saved on the computer which I'm trying to open and it shows whoops you had a problem with crazy okay I have this folder called should be outside this yeah this one math amazing dot html yeah I had downloaded before I pardon yeah I'm not able to connect to the network just a minute I'll just check it again what I'm not getting is I'm not getting the router and they don't have a wire here so anyway yeah so this case study I had the option one which had a template from praisey probably I'll have the probably I'll have the PDF of this made from the yeah I had this okay fine I can I can still work on that so crazy is a tool which like he said apart from the 3d effects and all it gives you a big playground to use where you can put in your elements of your slides and all and then organize in such a way that you can you can actually move from one element to other using some animations of motion and all so the version I'm now showing is a PDF version which will be which will not be having the motion and all that but the reason I'm showing was that when I said that there was a template from praisey which was very tempting to use because you can you make out the reason why it was tempting because I was talking about game and it had a very old game look pixelated game look which was like in the days of pacman kind of thing so so I was trying to use this this template and also use a similar font which will which will look like mono space or those type of fonts very digital looking fonts for the problems and for solutions I was using a slightly different font so I was trying to compare that with each other that what is the obstacle and what is the solution so I was trying to constantly move between the obstacle and solution keyframes yeah this kind of graphics were available there and yeah so this I was talking to somebody later on about the circle used in praisey I don't know whether he's here today so the choice was between this kind of a tempting presentation available at praisey and a rather normal template available in keynote keynote as I said is a presentation tool for Mac you could not see it yourself and the verdict was obviously what what should I have been used by the way now that's the open question so you saw two templates right the content is the same the audience is CS conference so what type of template should I use for these two comments which one praisey or non praisey for the gaming gaming topic so the praisey looks okay okay how many people agree with praisey as a tool no how many people for the chalkboard and what about the rest anyway something else is required right may be okay so this was my conclusion so that simple chalkboard one is good enough for the CS conference and the animated praisey is wherever I present it at a game developers conference probably because the audience will be able to relate to it very easily as compared to the audience which I am talking to and why do I say that because when I when I start about showing these two different versions then why do I say that one is good for this and other is not for not good for this that's the difference between what we want to do from communication and what should be the function of that and this is the definition I am using from one of the papers which is given at the end so it's about communication refers to the design's ability to put forth a message now the message is clear in your mind what you want to say and communication is only that but the functionality is beyond that when you want to when you are knowing that who is going to attend and what are they going to do with it at that time you start browsing through all the options so the my suggestion is you can go through all the options possible whatever you have keep a library in your mind but when you have to choose that time let the content decide or help you decide the choice because the range is too much so it's very difficult to say that X is the only best option so there can be multiple best options so just to recap what we have been doing for last four or more classes was to start from the plan point we execute for the plan what we have decided and then finally we use impress to finally deliver the lecture and before that one important thing which is written in all caps at the last line here is that practice spot and there is no shortcut to that because however good you have that presentation and experience what I had with the Professor Fatak so he was telling me that when he got an appointment at as a faculty member at IIT Bombay from the first TA scholarship whatever he got he bought a tape recorder and he used to record his own lecture for the next day on that tape recorder by doing all the mimic actions whatever he wanted to use that in front of a mirror and then listen to it after like the kids will go to sleep and all that because they thought he was getting crazy by doing all these things and they are not understanding a word out of it he was giving all the computer science lectures that time but he said that practice was the only saving grace and that's where I can now I can go out and talk and people come back and say that while your lecture was good so that has not come overnight and it has been practiced since then and he still practices that whole thing because whenever I see him he'll create a presentation give it to somebody to read get comments get it corrected for every comma every dot he will he will not spare himself in fact I was with him on Saturday and he had to give a lecture in Mumbai University he came back from that lecture and he was talking to Prakash Vaidya sir and he said I found three mistakes in my own lecture even after we had checked so many times and then he showed that print out that these were the three mistakes I found out and Prakash Vaidya gave him the same paper which had some 18 corrections there so said after we relook at it we find our own mistakes and it takes real big heart to admit that we had so many mistakes in that and also to change those and overcome those and decide on your own that you will not commit those mistakes again and again so that's that's something worth taking back as a the important advice so I suggest that whatever presentations you guys have done are definitely and you can see the transitions now I showed you one example there are couple of more examples like that so I think let's now decide on the plan for how to record the presentations so that we can do this so we have a classroom in Crescent third floor called lecture hall which is just behind seminar hall so on the third floor there are two halls semicircular halls with a well like structure so you have to so how are we going to do that we have slots from next week onwards can you just give the details okay okay so the plan is that in the lecture hall we will schedule five presentations in each class so that means on the Tuesday class there will be five Thursday and for the next two weeks we'll cover all 17 or 18 groups or teams we'll record everything and we plan to upload it we'd like to have an interesting audience right and I feel that the right level to pitch at is about 10th or 11th standard kids someone who is intelligent who might not be a matter expert right that that puts more demands on your presentation skills and the class will review each of the performances right and we'll decide what to do next after that okay so if there any special requirements that you have on that day do let us know we'll figure out now how to do it I was thinking that we put a chroma screen a green screen behind and then afterwards do branding on it and put some scenery or whatever it is and stuff like that but we'll figure out what is possible in that classroom any questions so what we are hoping is that there are six members to a team right each person will speak for at least a minute or minute and a half so you'll have to divide up the work so each person will get exposure and it's up to you how you want to innovatively manage your time in front of the audience so let's say it's an how much six to eight minute talk with at least about one or two minutes for well interaction right at the end okay because I'm sure some interesting issues will come up so about six to eight minutes fit that within time each person should get an occasion to talk it can be one after the other it can be a saval jawab whatever it is right we leave that up to you it can be a little skit or a play also right how you how you want to do it is up to you any other yeah so four classes will any questions okay so that's essentially it so next time we meet you is now on Tuesday where you will be doing the presentations and if you want to bounce off any ideas with us before you actually do the presentation on Tuesday or whenever you are scheduled for let us know we might group them we might not actually go in a serial order of the groups we might group them based on the kind of content you have and the kind of audience that we might try and set up right so don't presume that the audience will be you folks right the audience might be people from outside also so we slightly mixed audience so pitch it accordingly yeah yes the holy holiday until when are they on holiday okay fine what group is that what's the topic hole in the wall okay so what we'll do is that this evening we'll sit down and and and do the scheduling based on topics and then you folks can kind of forgive us feedback right I know that well everybody will say give me a Thursday on second week right but that's not going to wash with us right okay we'll take a call on that right we'll take a call on that anything else any questions okay thanks for bravely coming to class today right so now you have enough time to kind of think over what you'll be doing in your presentations and we are available now also if you want to talk to us about any plans that you might have and anything else that you want to do in your presentation right I'm sure there might be some questions we'll take them offline now yeah thank you