Presentations are made for various purposes. The objective of most presentations, however, is to help an audience process complex content easily. Only about a twentieth of presentations are made for entertainment, while only about a sixth of presenters tell a story.
Being able to present and communicate your message to the audience in an easy-to-process manner is a precious skill to have in the modern economy. A presentation effectively allows a presenter to communicate his or her message to the audience and utilizing templates that will help you tell your story can be highly beneficial.
This short article mentions 10 ways in which you can use technology, and excellent tools available in the market such as InVideo, to your advantage during presentations to make sure that the objective of your presentation is accomplished.
1. Leveraging Prototype Videos For Demos
Whether it is 3D printing or using an online video maker, there is an entire spectrum of tools available to help you create prototypes of varying levels of fidelity. If you are looking to leverage technologies to your advantage during presentations, then videos of prototypes for demos can be an easy to execute way of going about it.
Using such videos, you can ensure that the audience of your presentation can not only understand what you are speaking about but also see a visual representation of your offerings.
2. Utilizing Non-linear Presentation Software
Utilizing the wonderful technology of non-linear presentation software to build your content enables you to provide a free and intuitive control for your presentations. The audience can see the entire storyline and big picture of the presentation on the screen, and you can focus on specific points at a time by zooming in on parts of the presentation that you are speaking about.
Non-linear presentation software offers all the benefits of a traditional presentation tool in terms of graphics, multimedia integration, but at the same time, it helps create a much better designed visual experience for your audience.
3. Overlaying Music
Traditional presentation creation tools have allowed people to add background music to their content. However, with the advent of much more sophisticated editing tools that can be integrated with your presentation making software, you can overlay music to specific objects or specific parts within your presentation. Online innovations have made it so easy that there is even a direct website that offers a photo slideshow maker with music free.
4. Integrating Audience Interaction Tools
In the era of increasing competition of audience engagement, it is vital to make your presentation more interactive. Ways to increase interaction can include things such as live polling for answers from the audience, or even conducting quizzes. Fortunately, almost everyone attending presentations usually has a smartphone, and the online marketplace offers several tools that allow you to seamlessly integrate audience polling or quizzing into your presentations.
5. Adding GIFs And Cinemagraphs
Many GIF and cinemagraph creation tools are easily accessible these days, and usage of such features can spark life into presentations to make them interesting and visually appealing for the audiences. GIFs especially have become a staple feature of online interactions, be it in chat messengers, or blog articles, or even in social media posts. GIFs and cinemagraphs can help you make even boring presentations, exciting and appealing.
6. Embedding 3D Models
While showing demos via video prototypes can be extremely useful, a better tech usage to show a high-fidelity prototype can be embedding 3D models into your presentations to show all the features of your product in detail. This can be especially useful for giving technical presentations, conducting detailed review processes with diverse stakeholders, or even getting feedback from pilot users.
The 3D model integration is now even available in some of the traditional presentation creation platforms as well, and you do not necessarily need to be a professional CAD (computer-aided design) developer to make use of such a technology for your presentations.
7. Using HTML5
HTML5 may sound simple, but it is one of the most powerful technologies that have a strong use-case in designing impactful presentations. The best aspects of HTML5 include its almost colloquial language syntax, flexibility, and the variety of things that you can do using the language. If you can learn some surprisingly easy aspects of HTML5 code, the features of the language will allow you to build powerful presentations.
8. Integrating Gesture Recognition
Remember how effortlessly Tony Stark works with Jarvis in the Iron Man movies using simple hand and finger gestures? Such technology does not remain just in the realm of sci-fi or superhero movies. Hardware sensor devices are now available in the market that allows you to replace mouse and pointers with hand and finger gestures to provide inputs to computer systems.
Using such technology for your presentations will help you engage your audience even more as you can change slides or zoom in using hand and finger gestures. In this way, the presentation and the presenter can move and transition in sync, thereby creating a tremendous audience experience.
Although such a technology integration can be expensive in the present and near future, in a few years, the cost is likely to become affordable for everyone to use.
9. Inviting Feedback From Potential Audiences
Taking feedback in the form of surveys from audiences can be done using some of the polling software integrations that were discussed in point #5. However, here the feedback being discussed is more qualitative feedback from model audiences using some of the online user-testing and A/B testing tools that are available.
You may not necessarily want to use such tools during live presentations where there is a lot at stake, but you can do a smaller demo with a volunteer audience to get some useful feedback.
10. Immersing In Virtual Reality
This technology integration for presentations seems to be mostly for the future. However, some surprising cheap options are available to help you provide an immersive virtual reality experience for your audience during presentations. Mobile-based VR is already quite cheap in the market, and using it as a part of presentations can be a great way to tell your story.
Ultimately, whatever tools and technologies you use during your presentations, it is paramount to start with a good story to share with your audience. Tools can only provide the support that can give you an additional advantage. It is the story that has to do most of the heavy lifting.