I tried explaining this once to a teacher in high school, because he said we had to use lots and lots of different transitions and effects in our powerpoint project if we wanted to get a good grade, because apparently it doesn't matter what you actually say in your powerpoint, just so long as you use every single different transition and effect that there is.

Needless to say, my explanation failed and I was not very pleased with the overall going-ons of things for that project....

-Nukaya

Bfa speaks the truth. HE IS WIZE.

This is why I stick to simple effects like "fade" and "wipe" and sometimes "dissolve".

What I tend to do is fade from each slide, which have the same backgrounds so it looks like the text just dissappears. Then the text either slides in or appears bit by bit or simultaneously.

Bfahome speaks the truth.

Another tip, don't choose the same song you hear in every music video ever! Any Linkin Park or Evanecence song is an examples of this. "Let the Bodies hit the Floor" is also a particularly annoying example. You hear the song in a music video, with good transitions, good synching, and think "Okay, good video", and then you hear it in a whole bunch of other videos, and it gets annoying, stupid, and downright generic!

This is why I stick to simple effects like "fade" and "wipe" and sometimes "dissolve".

Ooh, I've never heard of 'dissolve' before! I just recently learned of 'Fade to white'.

I tried explaining this once to a teacher in high school, because he said we had to use lots and lots of different transitions and effects in our powerpoint project if we wanted to get a good grade, because apparently it doesn't matter what you actually say in your powerpoint, just so long as you use every single different transition and effect that there is.

 

Needless to say, my explanation failed and I was not very pleased with the overall going-ons of things for that project....

 

-Nukaya

Wow. That teacher must not be a professional at Powerpoints. At least my Computer Tech teacher taught us otherwise.