The making of a presentation (part 2)
Finding a form
OK, so now I had a plan for my presentation. Not only that, but I already had a fairly clear idea about the look of the piece. As this would be designed exclusively for the Slideshare-contest it had to work without sound an the text would have to be legible even in a small embedded flash-player. The idea was to use huge type in a one-word-per-slide layout emphasizing the do's and do's. I planned to display each word followed by a similar slide where an illustration was composited on top of the former slide.
As
the two big-word parts of the presentation were
to deal with different tasks I figured I'd
better find some clever means to separate them
visually as well. For the "feed your brain"-part
I decided to go for an 'active' colour like
green, while I reserved a nice pale blue for the
more passive "rest your brain"-segment. I
immediately fired up Photoshop and after
experimenting I decided on the font
Hattenschweiler.
To
make the text a little less boring I gave them a
slight gradient. I still wasn't 100% satisfied
with the look, but finished the first iteration
of these slides to see how it played. Oh, what a
snooze-fest. While there was nothing wrong per
se with the slides I found it impossible to
concentrate while watching through them. If I
couldn't entertain myself, how could I expect to
keep the anyone else's attention!? Back to the
drawing board then...
