FSU-COM 3150 – Flashcards

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Functional Animation
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Involves motion that is directly related to your message, such as highlight arrow that moves around the screen to emphasize specific points in a Technical Diagram.
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Decorative Animations
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such as having a block TEXT CARTWHEEL in from off-screen. needs to be used with GREAT CARE. These effects adds any functional value, and they easily distract audiences.
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Transition between slide
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if you use transitioning slides make sure they are SUBTLE: they should do nothing more than ease the eye from one slide to the next.
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Slide Transitions
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control how one SLIDE replaces another, such as having the current slide gently fade out before the next slide fades in. Subtle transitions like this can ease your viewers gaze from one slide to the next many of the transition effect now available little more that distractions and are best avoided.
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Slide Builds
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control the release of text, GRAPHICS, and other elements on individual slides. With builds, you can make key POINTS APPEAR one at time rather than having all of them appear on a slide at once. thereby making it EASIER for you and the audience to focus on each new message.
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Hyperlink
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instructs your computer to jump to another slide in your presentation, to a website, or to another program entirety. Using HYPERLINKS is also GREAT way to BUILD to build flexibility into your presentations so that you can instantly change the flow of your presentation in response to your audience.
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Multimedia Elements
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offer the ultimate presentations. Using audio and video clips can be a great way to complement your textual message.
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Completing a presentation
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make sure allow enough to time to test your presentation slides, VERIFY EQUIPMENT OPERATION, PRACTICE YOUR SPEECH, AND CREATE HANDOUT MATERIALS.
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Navigational Slides
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help your audiences keep track of what you've covered already and what you plan to cover next.
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Electronic presentation software
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can help you throughout the EDITING and REVISION process, for example, the SLIDE SORTER VIEW (different programs have different names for this feature) lets you see some of all the slides in your presentation on a single screen. Use this view to add and deletes slides, Reposition slides, check slides for design consistency and verify the operation of any effects.
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Title Slides
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you can make a good first impression with one or two TITLE SLIDES, the equivalent of a report's cover and title page.
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Agenda and Program details
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These slides communicate the agenda for your presentation and any additional information the audience might need such as HASHTAGS and WIFI log-in-information.
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Navigation Slides
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To tell your audience where you're going and where you've been, you can use a series of NAVIGATION SLIDES. A simple way to do this is to repeat your agenda slide at the beginning of each major section in your presentation, with the upcoming section highlighted in some way.
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Selecting Design Elements
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As you create slides, pay close attention to the interaction of color, background and foreground designs, artworks, typefaces, and type styles.
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Color
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color is a critical design element that can grab attention, emphasize important ideas, CREATE ONTRAST, INFLUENCE ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR IDEAS, IMPROVE RETENTION and stimulate a variety of emotions. Color is POWERFUL, so use it carefully.
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Background designs and artwork
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All visuals have two layers of designs : the BACKGROUND and the FOREGROUND/ The BACKGROUND is the EQUIVALENT of paper in a printed document, and the elements in the FOREGROUND are the essential content of your slides. Make sure the BACKGROUND stays in the BACKGROUND and doesn't distract viewers or compete with the foreground.
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Foreground designs and artwork
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The FOREGROUND contains the unique text and graphic elements that make up each individual slide. Foreground elements can be either FUNCTIONAL or DECORATIVE.
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Functional Artwork
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includes photos, TECHNICAL DRAWINGS, CHARTS, and other visual elements containing information that's a part of your message.
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Decorative Artwork
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In contrast decorative artwork simply enhances the look of your slides and should be using SPARINGLY, if at all.
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Typefaces and type styles
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Type is harder to READ-ON-Screen that on the printed page, so you need to choose FONTS and type styles with care. SANS SERIFF FINTS are usually easier to read the SERIF FONTS. Use both the upper case and lower case letters, generous space to read between the lines of the text, and limit the number of FONTS to ONE or TWO per slides. Choose font sizes that are easy to read from anywhere in the room, usually BETWEEN 28 and 36 points and test them in the room if possible.
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Stuffing Slides with too much TEXT
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one of the most common mistakes beginners make and one of the CHIEF criticism level at structured slide design in general
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Charts and Table
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for presentations need to be simpler than visuals for printed document
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Circular Process
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Step1,2,3,4,5.
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Linear Process
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Step 1: Point A, Point B. Point C Step 2. Point A, Point B. Point C Step 3. Point A, Point B. Point C
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Hierarchy
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Top>Middle>Bottom.
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Matrix
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Upper Left....Upper Right Lower Left.....Lower Right
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Handouts
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any printed materials you give the audience to supplement your talk- should be considered an INTEGRAL part of your presentation strategy. Handouts can include detailed Charts and Tables, Case studies, Research Results, Magazine Articles, and anything else that supports the Main idea of the presentation.
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BACKCHANNEL
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many business presentations involve more than just the spoken conversation between the speaker and his and her audience. Using Twitter and other electronic media, audience members often carry on their parallel communication during a presentation via the BACKCHANNEL
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Overcoming anxiety
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even seasoned PROS get a little nervous before a big presentation- and that is a good thing. Nervousness is an indication that you care about your audience, your topic and the occasion.
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Convert anxiety into positive energy
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1...Stop Worrying about being perfect. 2. Practice, Practice, Practice. 3. Visualize Success. 4. Remember to breathe 5.Be ready with your opening line. 6. Be comfortable. 7. Take a three second break if you need to. 8. Concentrate on your message and your audience, not on you 9. Maintain Eye contact 10. Keep going.
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Questions and answer
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don't leave the question and answer period to chance: anticipate potential questions and think through your answers
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Blue
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Peaceful, Soothing,Tranquil, cool, trusting. Background for electronic business presentations (Usualy dark blue) safe and conservative
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White
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Warm, bright, pure, wise font COLOR OF CHOICE FOR MOST ELECTRONIC BUSINESS PRESNTATIONS WIH A DARK BACKGROUND
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Yellow
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Warm, bright, cheerful, enthusiastic, "Text bullets and Subheadings with a dark background
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Red
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Passionate, dangerous, active, painful
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Green
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Assertive, prosperous,envious, relaxed
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Structured slides
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have the ADVANTAGE of being easy to create; you simply choose an overall design scheme for the presentation, select a template for a new slide and start typing. Structured slides are often the best choice for project updates and other routine information presentations, particularly if the slides are intended to be used ONCE.
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Free-Form Slide
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design can overcome drawbacks of TEXT HEAVEY Structured design, such as slides can fulfill three criteria researchers have identified as important for success presentations. (1) Providing complementary information through both textual and visual means , (2) limiting the amount of information delivered at any one time to prevent cognitive overload and (3) helping viewers process information by identifying priorities and connections such by highlighting the most important DATA POINTS in the graph.
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Structured Slide
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are usually based on TEMPLATES that give all the slides in a presentation the same general look (which usually involve a lot of bullets): free - form slides are much less rigid and emphasize visual appeal.
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Use conventional bullets
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perhaps the most important design choice you face when creating slides is whether to use CONVENTIONAL, BULLETS POINT-INTENSIVE STRUCTURED SLIDES or the LOSEOR, visually oriented FREE-FORM Slides that many presentation specialist now advocate.
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Simplicity, Authenticity
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Start with the mindset of Simplicity (clear ideas presented) and authenticity (talking with
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