Examples of Articulate in Action

[brand468]

Hi jbrowdy!

Very good and proffessional loooking presentation, a also like the small tutorial in the start (i will include one myself).
Christer

[jbrowdy]

Thanks. I have borrowed from several users here in the forum. I'd love to see more examples out there.

[brand468]

Yes, i agree and hope that we will see more examples here soon

[mark]

Jason I like the work you've done for your fist attempt. The instructional piece for navigation works well and you gave me some ideas here to adapt the way I had presented my graphics (like the jagged edge cut on one graphic).

In terms of content presentation I would prefer to see less text on each slide so that you are truncating each sentence and removing words as much as possible to just leave the key text. This way your user is not following the text as you read but the text is providing the key words from your narration.

Let us know what your patients think too.

Kind regards,

Mark

[jbrowdy]

That's good input. I actually agree. When I give lectures, I totally minimize words on a slide, and use bold, key phrases. But, I use Apple's Keynote, and I'm much more adept at using it than powerpoint.

But, great feedback. Thanks.

[gabe]

I'm sure you're all regular Word of Mouth Blog readers anyway, right? But just in case you're not, I wanted to call your attention to yesterday's entry, which features an excellent example of a "talking head" presenter video:

http://blog.articulate.com/wom/2006/...inganswerscom/

Enjoy!

[brand468]

Yes i agree, the presentation is looking great, and more alive with the use of "talking head".
It seems the video is transparent to the background so i guess he is working with "green or blue screen" keying or am i wrong?

[gabe]

I would imagine he is, but we'd have to get Don to confirm that. I'll point him to this thread for some input.

[swrdfghtr]

Yup, chroma keying - blue screen, to be specific. You can actually get blue/green foam-backed cloth; I stretched it over a canvas frame I got from an art supple store to make a backdrop. The foam backing helps keep it taut so there are no wrinkles. I also used an inexpensive teleprompter on the camcorder, which is worth its weight in gold for getting things right on the first take.

We used Final Cut Express to actually edit the video and convert it to FLV, and then assembled everything (obviously) in PowerPoint with Presenter. Adobe Premier could have been used to edit the video just as well on a PC.

Originally Posted by brand468

Yes i agree, the presentation is looking great, and more alive with the use of "talking head".
It seems the video is transparent to the background so i guess he is working with "green or blue screen" keying or am i wrong?

[doofdaddy]

Here's one I did for school. The presentation itself is not that distinct. However, I have gotten a lot of feedback on the images. Basically, I just ungrouped some clipart, copied the people into Photoshop, and applied a bevel and shadow to give them a 3D like look.

Presentation

Clip art before and after sample