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Setting Up Your storyboard and narration (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 3

Reviewing the Storyboard Congratulations! You have now officially moved beyond bullet points. Even before you’ve added a single visual, the PowerPoint file is embedded with a strong story, meaningful headlines anchoring every slide, preliminary backgrounds that indicate the presentation’s structure, and a basic layout designed to hold graphical elements in the main area of the […]

Setting Up Your storyboard and narration (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 4

Storyboarding Using Three Ground Rules Whether you have an electronic or paper version, as you review and work with your new storyboard, three ground rules can help you and your audience to stay connected to the big picture. Rule 1: Be Visually Concise, Clear, Direct, and specific Just as you strive to be concise, clear, […]

Sketching Your Storyboard (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 1

WHEN YOU PUT stylus to screen or pencil to paper to sketch your slides, it’s a revolutionary moment in terms of Microsoft PowerPoint approaches. Think of the way you use PowerPoint according to the conventional approach—you open up a slide with a predesigned background, type a category heading such as Our Company in the title […]

Sketching Your Storyboard (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 2

Start with an Anecdote Another way to start strong is to tell an anecdote—a brief story—while you display a simple graphic. In this case, the anecdote should communicate the point of the headline of the slide—be sure that your story lasts no more than a minute or two, because you have many more slides to […]

Sketching Your Storyboard (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 3

Link the Act i slides with a single Chart or Photograph To tie together even more tightly the slides in this example, sketch a single unifying image across all of Act I to make it a backdrop. Figure 7-9 shows how to do this. The Title slide includes a sketch of a light bulb indicating […]

Sketching Your Storyboard (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 4

Raising Interest with Your Layouts A striking way to set up your CTA+3 slides is to use a distinctive layout to make them stand out among all the other slides in the storyboard.Change those placeholder backgrounds to something more striking—for example, by using a split-screen layout on the Key Point slides. This layout style, shown […]

Sketching Your Storyboard (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 5

Sketching Headline-only Explanation slides When you deliver a 15-minute version of your presentation, you will spend the bulk of time on your nine Explanation slides that back up your three Key Points. But when you deliver a 45-minute version of your presentation, you won’t spend much time on the Explanation slides because they only serve […]

Adding Graphics to Your slides (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 1

TURNING WORDS into visuals can be a daunting task for anybody, especially if you’re used to putting mostly bullet points on your slides. Fortunately, you’ve already done significant work to prepare the way for this moment—you have in hand a storyboard that includes all the slides in your presentation, and each slide includes a sketch […]

Adding Graphics to Your slides (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 2

Rule 3: Defend Your Foundation! At this stage in your BBP presentation, you’ve worked hard to create a strong foundation all the way from the words and structure of your story template through to your sketches. But if you’re not careful to defend the foundation you’ve built, you might break the mechanisms that make BBP […]

Adding Graphics to Your slides (Using Microsoft PowerPoint) Part 3

Customizing layouts The great thing about custom layouts is that experimenting is easy— if you create a layout you don’t like or that doesn’t work, or if you make a mistake, it’s easy to return to the layout in Slide Master view and make changes there that will be automatically updated on the corresponding slides […]

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