GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNING AND PRODUCING SLIDES

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GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNING AND PRODUCING SLIDES
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Elements to consider

• Purpose of presentation
• Audience
• Setting presentation venue
• Content

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Elements to work on

• Layout
• Design template
• Colours
• Fonts
• Transition effects
• LANGUAGE
• Sound effects

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Layout

• Title slide
• Bulleted lists
• Chart/graph slides
• Blank slides

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TITLE SLIDE

• This is usually the first slide in the
  presentation.

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Bulleted lists (1)

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

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Bulleted lists (2)

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3
• Item 4

• Item 5
• Item 6

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Table slide
Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
A3 B3 C3
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Chart / Graph Slide (1)

• The figures show that
• Conclusion 1
• Conclusion 2
• Conclusion 3

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Chart / Graph Slide (2)
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Design templates

• Choose designs, colours and fonts appropriate
  for
• purpose of presentation

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Colour schemes

• Dark text
• on
• light background

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Colour schemes

• Light text
• on
• dark background

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Fonts (formal)

• Tahoma
• Times New Roman
• Arial (Black)
• Bookman Old Style
• Impact

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Fonts (Informal)

• Garamond Italics
• Lucida Handwriting
• Matisse ITC
• Monotype Corsova
• Comic Sans MC

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Font size

• At least 18-point
• Should vary for different levels
• Title
• Sub-title(s)

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Language

• Present key ideas, avoid excessive detail
• Use key words
• Maintain parallelism in
• slides
• bulleted lists

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Language

• Present key ideas,
• avoid excessive detail
• Use key words
• Maintain parallelism in
• slides
• bulleted lists

Verb (phrase) noun (phrase)
noun (phrase)
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Slide Transition

• EXAMPLE 1
• Box in

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Slide Transition

• EXAMPLE 2
• Dissolve

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Animation

• Present items one by one
• Show key words and elaborate verbally
• Do the same for
• Second-level bulleted item 1
• Second-level bulleted item 2
• Third-level item 1
• Third-level item 2

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Transition, Sounds, Animation

• Do NOT overdo!

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Transition, Sounds, Animation

• Use effects in appropriate ways especially in
  formal presentations