Great presentations
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- itstimefortea0
PEE DEE EFF
- twokids0
It doesn't matter. Powerpoint is used because it is universal. its easy. everyone has it, it's easy to edit. It's like saying 'should i use the web to post this information for people to see?' gee, maybe a blimp or billboards are better? i mean powerpoint is just an image sequencer. you can put anything you want in there. be creative....isn't that your job?
- Daithi0
Powerpoint makes it difficult to do even that (put images in a sequence). There is an online clone of Keynote about, but I can't remember the name...
- vaxorcist0
suits can make anything difficult in powerpoint, due to the enormous changes at the last minute effect, the images being sent from blackberry while the suit is at the airport.... and the bad type tweeking.... no kerning, baseline shift, etc....
- jfletcher0
Anyone who says "never use PowerPoint" doesn't understand how to give a good presentation, or what matters in a presentation. Someone said it before me here, but it's the content, it's the style. The tool is simply.... the tool.
It's like saying "no serious designer would use a PC". I guess at somepoint I left the 1980's and actually understood the field.
- twokids0
to give a great presentation, it has to be created on a mac using software that never was touched by microsoft.
that is the only way.
- jfletcher0
Actually some of the best presentations I've seen don't use anything, they simply talk... and somehow capture your interest.
- gramme0
I like Keynote better than Powerpoint because the interface is much more intuitive and robust, and because it offers more control over type and layout. I like InDesign > PDF even more because it offers ultimate control over typography and layout, and now you can even do transition effects in Acrobat.
While I've designed many ppt presentations for clients' internal use, I'll never use one for myself because I'm a typographer, and the lack of built-in kerning and other type controls in PowerPoint is maddening to me. Even for clients, I'll steer them away from PowerPoint for the sake of professionalism unless they need to have editing capability. If that's the case, I just do my best with PowerPoint.
Tools aside, I completely agree with Baskerville in echoing Tufte. Text-heavy presentations are good for nobody. I know Steve Jobs catches a lot of shit these days, but his presentations are flawless. He uses notes for himself, but his visuals are supporting/illuminating evidence, rather than the guiding light of his presentations.
- gramme0
^ and that has nothing to do with the obvious fact that Jobs' presentations were created on a Mac. What I'm talking about is the way he uses only images and video to illustrate his speeches.
- vaxorcist0
presenter charisma, content, reality distortion field.... Steve Jobs could give a great presentation with a 70's slide projector...
- Meeklo0
opinions on the actual film a side,
I thought the presentation graphics on this film were really good