Does Your Slideshow Stink? 5 Problems Solved Quickly By Using Voice Overs
September 4, 2008
Remember sitting in a classroom watching a slideshow that took an eon to endure? The teacher or presenter would succeed in capturing your attention and then try to keep it as they heroically plowed through a monotonous cycle of clicking as the fan chugged along with a gentle hum whose uncanny ability to make you sleep was second to none.
Click, next point, click, boring spiel, click, click, click… and you’re off to greener pastures doodling in a notebook, etching your name into a desk or drooling on your books.
For whatever reason (maybe the ones above may suffice), people in today’s society have given the slideshow a bad name, calling it obscenities like “ridiculous”, “a drag”, and the oh so clever “boring!”
Why do you think that is?
Maybe it’s because slideshows, at least the ones from twenty or thirty years ago, are passe and stink of film canisters with eruditely written content draped in intellectual garb that are sadly, under regular circumstances, not attractive or consumable to the average person.
Don’t get me wrong, (I love vintage media), but when it has lost its ability to reach an audience, it’s time to jazz it up, especially in our generation where everything needs to be relevant, immediate and packaged in a way that people can identify with and perceive as valuable.
Why else would they spend their time on it? There’s so much more out there and believe you me, there’s more out there to distract someone that pose challenges to keeping a steady focus.
Fortunately for the academe, new technologies have come to the proverbial rescue and have made it easier to get attention, keep it and instill knowledge.
Gone are the days (in most places) of the old guard imposing point and click presentations. Our world is now full of rich multimedia audio visual productions that wow and stimulate audiences. They teach, they captivate and they entertain.
However, you might say that the content presented is only as good as the presenter is an entertainer, or, narrator.
Again, and most fortunately for us, technology has provided yet another way to aid poor presenters by employing the addition of a “choose your own adventure” style solution that is entertaining, effective and persuasive… dare I say, even interactive.
What is this catalyst?
You see, the use of voice over solves nearly all of the problems a presenter faces in the heat of battle:
1. A voice over connects deeply with listeners
2. A voice over doesn’t get tired, clear their throat, take break to drink, or have stage fright
3. A voice over won’t get lost in the presentation or stumble on words
4. A voice over makes points clearly and effectively
5. A voice over finds a way to enliven the words so that you don’t have to
When looking for someone to narrate your powerpoint presentation or slideshow, check out the voice over marketplace online to find the right voice for your project.
There are literally thousands of people out there who do this for a living so you won’t have any trouble locating a professional voice talent. Either do a search using your favorite browser or just go straight to Voices.com and use the voice talent search engine, browse demos or post a job for best results.
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