Download the source files Video Transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to build a background in PowerPoint. It’s going to be this background that’s you see here and it’s going to be done all just with rectangles and a few other slight modifications. So let me […]
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Film and television directors are masters of visual storytelling. You can improve your eLearning courses (or videos) a lot by incorporating some of the techniques they use. Today, I want to look at the camera angles that video directors use. I’ll then see if I’m able to recreate each of them using only PowerPoint and
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Download the source files [highlight]You can also [dlink link=’https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2332114/eLearningArt_GiveAways/AssetsBlog/Angles-Film/Angles-Article-Giveaway/4-Tracking-Shot-Effect.pptx’] download the PowerPoint source files[/dlink] with the animations and the images included and follow along with the lesson.[/highlight] Video Transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to re-create a tracking effect in PowerPoint. So let me just go
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Download the source files Video Transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to create a dolly effect in PowerPoint using still images and let me just go ahead and show you the effect. So basically we will have a guy who is looking like he is
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Download the source files Video transcript Hey this is Bryan Jones from eLearningArt. Today I’m going to show you how to do a zoom and pan effect in PowerPoint and save it out as a video. So let me show you the effect really quickly. This is what the effect would look like and
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It’s been another great month at eLearningArt. For the first time in 7 years of blogging, I released a post every week in a month. To put it in perspective, in all of 2015 I only published 2 posts. In all of 2014 I released 3 posts…total! Yikes! But 2016 is a different year and
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When I develop eLearning courses, there are many common elements that I use over and over. By identifying patterns, I can create a reusable framework that reduces development time on future courses. Tom Kuhlmann had an interesting analogy of an eLearning course being like a sandwich with the top and bottom slices of bread being the
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I recently had the opportunity to interview the great Jane Bozarth, eLearning author and speaker on such topics as building more engaging training and using social as a learning tool. For the next few days, I’m doing a giveaway of 5 copies of her book, Show Your Work. This book is beautiful, with lots of
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Ok. So if you signed up for the free character image giveaway I announced in last week’s 2015 recap post, you have all of these images…but how do you actually use them? Let me share examples of how I’ve used characters in my own projects and how I’ve seen other designers use them as well. That should
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It’s been an eventful year at eLearningArt, and for me, personally. Mostly, I’m excited about the birth of my son, Rowan Hardin Jones, on Dec 1, 2015. He just cracked his first smile last week, so life is good! Here are some of the other updates I’d like to share. 100+ free eLearning images &
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