Text Heavy to Engaging!

Aug 15, 2016

Sabrina Ely
By Sabrina Ely

I have been reading as much as I can about transforming text heavy slides into engaging and interactive slides. This article was helpful and included great tips, but I would love to see some basic examples of how you have put these ideas into play.

Would you reply to this thread and show off your work? I’m looking for primarily simply (not advanced) ideas that either:

·       condense text using layers (hidden in tabs, numbers etc.) or

·       condense text using a pull method where users have to pull the information to reference it before answering a scenario question.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

30 Replies
Walt Hamilton
over 7 years ago08/30/16 at 2:13 pm (UTC)

Strictly speaking, kinetic text is moving text, but in real life, it has a lot broader application.

Check these examples:

http://mashable.com/2010/10/01/kinetic-typography-videos/#_

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/some-of-the-best-kinetic-typography-examples/

http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/examples-kinetic-typography-11121304

 

Scott Kaye
over 7 years ago08/30/16 at 3:08 pm (UTC)

I've been doing a lot of work lately with Adobe Character Animator.  Really very intuitive if you are borderline familiar with photoshop.  The example I am attaching took me all of 30 seconds to make.  I use the program to make animated avatars that lip sync to my voice.  A real time saver and far better than just using some text.  You can author the resulting videos any way you like using a variety of programs (In my example I just added some text with Camtasia).

I know that I haven't mentioned anything about Storyline.  I find Storyline to be best when augmented with assets from other programs.  You can really extend functionality that way.

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