I used the Slide Master to insert a header and footer. When in the Master it showed me options. I clicked in the footer area and added my name and class.
I changed the bullet points to smiley faces. I did this by going into the slide master and highlighting the first level, I went to Format, Bullets and Numbering, Customize then I chose my symbol and clicked Ok.
When creating a Presentation you can choose either to put background colours on your Slides or use one of the professionally designed templates that PowerPoint has to offer. However, I designed my own background. To apply the Background colour I clicked on Format then Background. I clicked on the Drop Down arrow then clicked on Full Effects. In the Gradient Colour section I clicked on two colours. I chose pink and purple. In the Shading Styles I changed it to Diagonal Up and clicked on a Variant, then clicked ok and then Apply to All.
To set the font and size of the title I went into Slide Master. I then highlighted the title and then clicked Format then Font. I selected Comic Sans MS size 28. I also selected Shadow from the section labelled Effects, and then clicked Ok. I did the same for the text but I used font size 26 and did not use the shadow. As I was in the master there was no need to select Apply to All.
Special Effects
Each slide comes in, in the same style which is newsflash. I applied this Slide Transition by going into the Slide Master by clicking View, Master, and Slide Master. I then clicked Slide Show, and Slide Transaction and I selected newsflash and Apply to All Slides.
All the slides have the same Animation. The text flies in line by line from the bottom of the screen and this stays consistent for the whole presentation. I got this by, again, going into View, Master, and Slide Master. I clicked on Slide Show, then Custom Animation. I clicked on ‘Master text styles,’ I then clicked on Add Effect, Entrance and Fly In. As I was in the slide master there was no need to click apply to all slides, although I have done so in other places. As the slide master controls all slides.
All the images dissolve in for the whole presentation. I did this by going to Slide Show, then Custom animation. I clicked on my picture, followed by Add Effect. I clicked on entrance then dissolve in. I repeated this process for all my pictures throughout the presentation.
In one of the slides, slide three, after the picture dissolves in each bullet point dissolves out consecutively. The picture moves up into the middle of the screen, and then enlarges. To do this I went to Slide Show, Custom Animation. After I selected the picture and made it dissolve in, like the other picture, I selected each bullet point then clicked on Add Effect, Exit, Dissolve Out. After I repeated this on the three bullet points I clicked on my picture again then Add Effect, Motion Paths, Draw Custom Path, Line. I then drew the line from the middle of my picture upwards to the middle of the page. To increase the size I selected the picture, then Add Effect, Emphasis, Grow/Shrink, I kept the enlargement size at 150%.
Everything that is animated comes in, in order on the click of a mouse, every time I was in the custom animation I selected for “Start” On Click, and for “Speed” Very Fast.
Intended Audience
My intended audience is children and teenagers. I chose this audience as gymnastics is something you need to start from an early age. I wanted to show people how interesting gymnastics is. My slides are bright and colourful with cheerful pictures, which would definitely attract children; it may also catch the eye of adults too.
The language used is quite simple and easy to understand for a child, though an adult would still read it perhaps passing on information about the sport to a relative with children.
Consistency
I presented my information in a consistent way. I used my Master Slide to help me with this. I changed the majority of things in this section which meant it was consistent for the presentation. I wanted my work to be consistent so that people would not get districted by text and pictures flying in from different places each time a slide would appear. Concentration would be held solely by the message the slides are conveying.
