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PowerPoint: Silicon Valley Presentation Secrets

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Overview

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Learn how to create dazzling and effective PowerPoint presentations. Pick up slide design techniques used by presentation designers at cutting-edge Silicon Valley companies.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Presentation design is a job
1. Working in the Valley: Behind the Scenes
  • Why presentation design is so popular in Silicon Valley
  • Presentation designers wear many hats
  • The importance of working quickly
2. Saving Time
  • The benefits of working directly in PowerPoint
  • Create custom shapes in PowerPoint
  • The three-shape challenge
  • Demo: Fry an egg using shapes
3. Silicon Valley Staples
  • Build anything using your imagination
  • Make a social media interface
  • Make a photorealistic phone feed
4. When in Doubt, Morph It
  • What is Morph?
  • Morph demo 1: Photo montage
  • Morph demo 2: Morphing an element across multiple slides
5. Creating Showstopper Moments
  • What are showstopper moments?
  • Create a parallax effect
  • Make some toast
6. Bringing Still Images to Life
  • Add a little life to still photos
  • Animate a rocket launch
  • Animate a model putting on makeup
  • Animate a speeding jet
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jole Simmons

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