Posted by CallyAnn Hamilton on Nov 22, 2013 in Multimedia |

  For my Professional Presentations class I needed to make a self-advancing slideshow with some kind of audio. I chose “10 Lessons” for my topic.  After batting a few ideas around, I decided I wanted my slideshow to have a strong “time” theme, so I thought it might be neat to use a steampunk-flavored design and an instrumental version of the song, “Too Late to Apologize.” I really wanted to implement the movements of an old-fashioned clock.  To pull this off I had to do quite a bit of research and fiddling around in PowerPoint.  I made a tutorial documenting my findings here. Due to the number of animations I used, the slideshow didn’t play properly with the music. I used Quicktime to screencapture pieces of the presentation and spliced it all together in Avid to make sure all the animations would line up properly to the beat. It’s been pretty work-intensive! I probably won’t get around to splicing it all together, especially now that I’m learning how much easier all of this would be to do in After Effects. While I will probably never use PowerPoint for something this elaborate again, it was well worth it to stun my professor and classmates when it was my turn to present!...