How to Make sure your Prezi Slides are Impactful

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  Hey there, my name is Joshua, one of the designers

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  from a company called Missing Link, and we're a presentation

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  powerhouse who's actually on a mission on a mission to

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  change the world one board audience at a time through

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  powerful and engaging presentations, presentations that don't just get your

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  audience to take notes, but we get them to take

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  action. So I'm here to give you a few tips

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  how to make sure your Prezi designs are impactful.

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  Now we all know this and it's not even a

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  secret. We're basically stuck behind our screens, constantly finding ourselves

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  on instagram, facebook tiktok twitter and so many other social

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  media platforms.

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  But even within our leisure times, when we wanna sit

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  back, relax and watch a few videos or movies, we're

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  watching that on all the of these different streaming platforms.

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  And when it's time to get back to work, you

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  realize that you're caught up in this digital world receiving

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  all of this digital content and now it's time for

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  you to find a way of sharing your content in

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  a way that's really interesting because the truth of the

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  matter is attention is now a diminishing resource.

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  Our audiences are literally paying us with their attention every

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  time they're watching us present.

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  So we need to figure out ways of grabbing their

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  attention and making sure that it stays.

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  And one of the most common ways to do so

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  is by designing slides that are beautiful and intricately designed,

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  kind of like the mona lisa.

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  But there's a bit of a problem with this way

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  of thinking, because once you start applying this way of

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  thinking to all of your slides, you then find that

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  not only becomes overwhelming, but the slides actually lose the

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  impact. How can we avoid this?

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  There's one thing that we believe that the missing link,

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  we say a good presentation should be written before it's

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  designed before it's delivered, and we say that you should

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  start off by writing that narrative right up front, because

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  once you're able to grab your audience's attention with the

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  narrative, taking them from Point A to Point B, and

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  then challenging them with a final call to action.

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  That's when you can then use your slides to enhance

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  that narrative, because now I have a good understanding of

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  what I want to say, I can now start creating

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  simple visuals that then put a spotlight and what exactly

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  I want to say, because of my understanding of my

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  narrative, this simple design is then impactful and that's where

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  it starts creating a good narrative to then use these

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  designs to enhance it.

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  Now, the very first thing that we need to realize

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  this, we need to change the way that we look

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  at designing our slides.

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  In fact we're no longer designing slides.

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  Prezi does a good job at integrating you into your

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  content. So we are now designing scenes and we've got

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  six different types of scenes that we use a lot

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  at the missing link, starting off with the very first

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  one being the side slide.

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  Now the side slide is really great because it uses

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  50 of your screen dedicated to you as a speaker,

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  allowing you to still be present in your content and

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  then having the rest of your content on the other

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  50 of your screen, which is great because now your

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  audience looks at both you presenting and your content.

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  The other part of a side slide, which is our

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  second scene, is the pip the picture in picture content

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  that you put on your screen.

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  Now, this is great because President allows for you to

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  zoom to a frame kind of like this, whoops and

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  then that brings it up full screen if you want

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  your audience to focus on a specific area within that

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  picture in picture, which takes me to the next type

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  of scene.

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  And that is the full slide.

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  The full slide can come in handy when you want

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  to make a major impact with your audience, may be

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  sharing a great quote or massive picture that you'd want

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  for them to look at.

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  You just need to be mindful of when you use

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  them because a lot of the impact comes when you

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  put it directly after a slide that just has you

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  on your screen.

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  Now, an alternative to the full slide or the cousin

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  of it is kind of creating the semi transparent, full

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  slide and this allows me to still be present within

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  your content.

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  But now I can tell you where I live, which

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  is right over here in South Africa.

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  Now, the way that I achieved this is by reducing

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  the opacity of the design that I've created.

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  Mhm. The other different piece of the scene that we

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  use is the prop.

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  Now, basically the prop will take some rehearsal because you

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  need to realize where you've put the specific idea on

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  your screen.

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  Now, you may you need to make sure that you

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  rehearsal so that you kind of know where, what is

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  going to be and this can kind of make it

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  feel like your prop is integrated into your environment.

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  Now, the second last seen that we use is really

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  big and really helps to put your audience in the

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  environment that you're in and that is the set.

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  The set is really great for creating that context and

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  giving you the field of what it feels like to

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  be in this digital space.

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  A really great way of grabbing your audiences attention.

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  And this is something that we have readily available for

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  you and our slide breakers give away the last piece

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  of scene is the naked scene.

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  Now again, I'm not asking you to take off your

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  clothes please.

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  That's not safe for work.

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  But the naked scene is when you're removing all the

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  designs and it just has you on the screen and

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  this is really, really important because this can also put

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  your eyes to rest.

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  Getting your audience is focused on just you as the

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  speaker because you are the presentation, you're the one delivering

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  the presentation.

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  So it's all up to you and how you deliver

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  your content.

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  So using the naked thing can be really good for

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  removing all of the distractions and having your audience focus

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  just on you now.

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  How have we designed all of these scenes?

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  Well, some of the times it usually starts off within

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  adobe Photoshop and this is a really great tool that

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  we use to create things like the semi transparent full

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  slide or if we want to tweak images or remove

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  their backgrounds.

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  So sometimes we pop images into Photoshop, do all the

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  editing and then we imported directly into into Prezi The

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  next thing, once you've created all of our different pieces

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  of of imagery, then we start building our very own

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  online library and Prezi has the ability to do so

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  make sure that once you've done any designs in power

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  in Photoshop or even in PowerPoint and exported it into

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  Prezi anything that you've created and you think that you

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  will reuse pop that into your online photo library because

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  that will definitely come in handy and from a workflow

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  perspective it just makes things a lot easier.

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  Then the last thing we do is we jump onto

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  google images and research for P N G S R

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  PNG and in order to make sure that your image

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  has a PNG background is you'll have a look at

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  the image and I should have this kind of checkered

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  pattern behind its piece of content.

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  A PNG is a portable network graphic and this is

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  basically an image that doesn't have a background.

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  So once you pop it in two Prezi if you

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  right click and copy and then paste it directly into

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  Prezi then you'll find just the content like this little

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  photo library over here and then you'll have that directly

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  in your Prezi which is really cool for integrating this

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  piece of content into your environment.

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  So search for PNG s when you are searching for

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  your images on google, now that we have that way

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  of thinking, the other thing is it's important for you

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  to rehearse the way you deliver your content, because you

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  are immersed into this digital world and the impact of

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  your slides also comes down to how you deliver that.

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  So make sure that you try and rehearse and put

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  yourself in this world so that it becomes convincing enough

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  to get your audience to feel what you're feeling when

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  you're delivering the content.

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  Remember a good presentation is written before it's designed before

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  it's delivered, and if you apply this way of thinking,

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  that's the way that you can ensure that your slides

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  have major impact, have a good one piece