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The Right Transition/Build Combinations
The selection of slide transitions and build effects provides a unique feel to a presentation -- just as the color scheme does. For instance, imagine two presentations, one to a conservative group of bankers and another to a gathering of employees during their lunch hour (most of whom would rather be spending their lunch hour somewhere else). Does the presentation to the group of conservative investors call for a different tone, color scheme, and set of transitions and build effects than the training session on workplace safety during the lunch hour? Yes!
For the employee meeting, a lively box-out transition when changing agenda points, combined with certain text wiping right and pictures zooming in may help keep everyone's attention. These same effects may jar the conservative sensibilities of a financial audience.
The most common forms of transitions are wipes, box-in/out, dissolves, fades, and cuts. Here are some specifics for their use:
Transitions and builds are really movie-making techniques. Use them to enhance your story. All this being said, many, many people dislike seeing all the transition and build effects, so use them judiciously. One person said, "I'll go to a movie when I want to see lots of movie effects. Presentations are for sharing information. Just give me a few effects."
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Navigating for More Interaction
One of the benefits of an electronic presentation is that, during the presentation, you can change the slide sequence. If you set up your slides in advance, you can easily go to another presentation file or to another slide in that file. Most presenters do not use hyperlinks because they don't know how to create them. Hyperlinks also require that you practice your presentation ahead of time so you can easily navigate them. Many software programs offer the ability to jump to any slide at any point in the presentation.
The presenter types the number of a selected slide and presses Enter.To make use of this feature, print out a hard copy of your slides (six to nine on a page) and number them. The following are some uses for hyperlinks:
Creating Hyperlinks
People's level of interest and retention is heightened when they are actively involved in a presentation, rather than just watching it. Interactivity can be an effective approach to creating such involvement.
A presentation can be designed in a number of ways to encourage audience interaction. The most common way is to set up a main menu with "hot buttons" next to each subject or with hyperlinks on the different subject areas. The presenter uses the main menu to trigger interaction with the audience, asking them to choose the subjects of interest.
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