In the four years of university growth, we need to master and skillfully use a skill in classroom, homework defense, thesis defense, community work and many other aspects, that is Presentation! From the perspective of future workplace needs, this is a skill that newcomers, backbones, middle-level and high-level people can't do without, and it is also a good window to show their comprehensive quality. Therefore, students must attach great importance to every presentation opportunity in the university, and constantly gain cognition and improve their ability through repeated practice.
Doing Presentation well is doing PPT well in the eyes of many students. This is a misunderstanding of the presentation. A perfect presentation consists of two parts: proper PPT design+good oral speech!
Combining my years of demonstration experience, I will give you the following principles:
(1) Presentation is essentially "communication"
First of all, you need to understand that you are a presenter, not an artist. You are not trying to show off your brilliance and create a wonderful audio-visual feast. Your purpose is only to "spread effectively". Through presentation, your audience can accurately and clearly understand and master your ideas and proposals in a limited time, learn something from your presentation, and then give a judgment. Therefore, all designs that do not meet this purpose should not appear in the presentation. This is the key to your continuous progress, please remember.
(2)PPT is centered on "audience"
Before making a presentation, you need to know who your future audience is. How old are they? What is their background? For example, in colleges and universities, your audience may be professors over 50 years old, and their growth experience has cultivated their unique preferences for color, typesetting and animation. ) Are they rigorous and rigid? Or relaxed and tolerant? Do they like to be calm and low-key, or do they like to be passionate? What about their eyesight? By analogy, you need to do a detailed "user portrait" analysis of your audience, so that in the future, we can know more about how we need to please your audience, let them understand your ideas more accurately and praise you!
(3) Exquisite visual design
Now that we have understood that "presentation is essentially communication", we need to know what communication is in the presentation. It's information. How to make your information more effective through PPT design? This knowledge is introduced in many professional PPT design books. The key points are: good color perception ability (which can be made up by learning some knowledge of color psychology)+graphic design ability (especially typesetting skills), (these two points correspond to "graphic design" and "color composition" studied in my university). The ultimate goal of these two key points is to make your information exist, display and flow more naturally. All formal beauty ultimately serves the transmission of information, so don't be mysterious, don't gild the lily, and don't be flashy.
(4) Low-key animation use
Generally speaking, PPT used in commercial occasions is basically without animation. Most of the animations that come with PPT are used to stimulate novices to try again and again, which is of little practical value. You don't need to learn PPT animation design skills like learning frame-by-frame animation (many tutorials will teach you these "useless" skills), because PPT is far from professional animation design tools (such as Aftereffect and 3DS MAX), so why waste your effort? Please remember: animation exists for "disappearing", just like "zero-degree editing" emphasized by Hollywood. When the audience is watching your animation and forgets your information, you will fail completely; When the audience understands and remembers your information more deeply under your animation design, even if they have no impression of your animation design after the end, you are still very successful! So please be careful with animation, which is a time-consuming and thankless thing.
(5) Tell your PPT like a story.
PPT design in presentation mainly involves the above four principles. The fifth principle is how to tell your audience about your designed PPT. Just like a story, in PPT narration, we need to grasp the overall structure, and at the same time, unfold the statement in the order of "story introduction-plot presentation-emphasis-strong color-emphasis-follow-up thinking-thanks", and pay attention to the rational use of external auxiliary skills such as tone sandhi, eyes, gestures and postures to further strengthen the story of your whole statement.
The above five principles are my long-term experience.