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Rethinking PowerPoint – The DVD

Ron Galloway, who also produced the documentary “Why Wal-Mart Works” has released his latest documentarty “Rethinking PowerPoint: Conversations About Slide Design & Presenting” to DVD this month.

I don’t think it will be available at the local Blockbuster video or Red Box, but it can be ordered here. The website also has sound bytes from some of the people interviewed in the documentary. I will hold my opinion until I have opportunity to view it all, which I am sure will have some interesting points about presentation design.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:18:51-07:00July 25th, 2010|Resource/Misc|

The Script Binder Is Very Important

Here is my workspace (or part of it). Question: what is the most important item here?

For large, multi-screen (multi-computer) shows that have lots of cues (slide animations/advances, video rolls, etc.) the script binder reigns supreme. It has the exact script the presnter has on teleprompt. I have added my cue marks and notes throughout. During the show I literally read along as the presenter presents and I do nothing unless it is noted in this binder (no improvisation, everything is rehearsed and set to occur at specific words).

How important? At the end of the day I shutdown computers, lock them away, but the script binder goes with me and never leaves my control (seriously).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:19:08-07:00July 23rd, 2010|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Lots and Lots of Videos In Presentations This Week

Coordinating presentations for a medical conference this week. In addition to the typical slides for 100+ doctors, the number of video clips is amazing. Here is an example:

1 presentation, 85 slides and 102 movie clips.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:19:49-07:00July 21st, 2010|Personal|

ThePowerPointBlog Cards

As a company we do virtually nothing in the way of advertising, and that is fine with me. But I did create some promo cards, actually 2-sided business cards a while back that I occassionally hand out or have available at different speaking or training programs I am doing. Just something fun, visually cool and small.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:20:08-07:00July 19th, 2010|Personal, Portfolio|

Sprint 4G Connection

I am working in Chicago this week and Chicago is the first Sprint 4G city I have been in since getting my new phone (HTC EVO). My typical 1-2MB connection jumped to over 5MB!

Definitely not as quick as my office (50MB connection), but faster than the hotel connection.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:20:28-07:00July 17th, 2010|Personal|

Activision Template

For me, diversity of clients is what keeps a designer continually engaged in the design process (and also from being ‘bored’). Here is a template developed for a company (Activision) in the video game industry. Developed for PPT 2007 with 3 different backgrounds, customized text (you can see the reflection effect on the title slide text), custom bullet art elements, etc.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:20:50-07:00July 15th, 2010|Templates/Assets|

View The Citi Group Email Policy Training Presentation

I stumbled on this presentation posted online.

It is the internal training presentation for Citi Group on email security and communication. The content is interesting. The slides – standard corporate stuff with to many words, limited formatting and dropped in rectangle .jpg’s.

View it here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:21:28-07:00July 13th, 2010|PowerPoint|

A stack-O-Computers For The Show

Here was my morning activity for a recent show. Bring out the multiple show computers (all running PPT 2010), connect, test output and work. Powerful laptops are big, but I wouldn’t try carrying a stack of desktop computers!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:21:43-07:00July 11th, 2010|Personal|

Sample Slide – U.S. Population Growth

I needed a slide that showed the 5 states with the most population growth over the past 5 years. The original slide had a standard bar chart, which told the statistics but was not very compelling.

I recreated this slide with a map of the U.S. highlighting the top 5 states. I used the 3D tools in PowerPoint to make the states ‘pop’ out of the map and applied a custom gradient fill to each. I also applied a 3D rotation to the state name and percentage text with a white glow to allow the text to be easy to read.

Note: all data in these slides is sample data (eg. I made it up, while I waiting for real data from the client).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:22:15-07:00July 9th, 2010|Portfolio|

Perception Slide

From a project, this slide was about how co-workers perceive the actions of different departments within their own orgranization. The title was shortened to a simple statement of “Public Perception”. The 4 wordy bullets of text eliminated and replaced with a single image that the presenter was able to talk to and use to set the stage for a quick story and explanation of the point being made.

The image was developed from a few Royalty Free images (from Thinkstock.com) that I modified in Photoshop before adding to the slide.
1. Group image holding blank white sign that I dropped out the background from and saved as a .png with transparency (note the middle guys head is able to overlap the title bar)

2. 3D rendering image of a generic group of characters (in this case representing the ‘other’ departments).

3. The speech bubbles and talking symbols where added in PowerPoint. The speech bubbles an imported .emf I created in Illustrator and the text as stylized PPT text.

4. The reflection is from PPT

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T11:22:37-07:00July 7th, 2010|Portfolio|