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A multimedia presentation is one that uses more than one medium. Text, sound, 'photos, animations, videos and interactive content are all forms that might be combined in the one presentation. 'Multimedia' seems to be a thoroughly twenty-first-century concept - it's so modern that you'd think it appeared in the last few years. You might be surprised to know that people have been discussing 'multimedia' since the 1950s! 'Multimedia' is often used to make presentations more exciting.
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A presentation which uses images, video, animations, sound and text would be one example of multimedia - this interactive quiz is another example
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PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program used to get ideas across
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You may wish to create a presentation in which all the slides share the same design
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There are lots of different transition effects like one slide covering the current one from the top of the screen, a spinning slide, dissolving slides or slides that push one another off the screen
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By adding animations, you can control how a word or image appears or disappears, or the order in which information appears; you can also use animations for emphasis, or just for fun
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When clicked, a hyperlink opens (or jumps to) a website, another file or document, or another slide in the same presentation
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Sound is a very useful addition to a presentation
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You can provide narration for your presentation by directly recording your voice as you read the information from (or talk about) each slide
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When creating a multimedia presentation, you should think carefully about the overall effect of your choice of colors, images, sounds and animations - too much variety can be very distracting for your audience
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A presentation package could not work out calculations on its own, but it could present the results of calculations by including tables, charts or diagrams
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