| You are at an important client briefing. In the dimly lit conference hall, you are giving a speech aided by slides placed on an overhead projector. In the middle of your speech, when you are just about to make a point, you find your audience nodding off. Your worst nightmare just came true! Multimedia Presentations are effective sales tools and indispensable aids during client briefings. They enhance traditional text-only computer interfaces and yield measurable benefit by gaining and holding attention. With a well-presented brief, you are half way to clinching the deal. Presentations help supervisors or management in reaching employees with information on policies, progress, or problems. In today's competitive world, Instructional videos keep employees updated on the latest techniques and developments in their fields. Many institutions regularly create videos and make presentations to explain policy changes, announce products, research developments, or major institutional changes to the public. Multimedia presentations are the best way of informing a limited number of people about specialized products and services. Audiovisual Presentations Digital video is the most engaging of multimedia venues. It also is a very effective method for delivering multimedia presentations to a wide range of audience. Audiovisual presentations find their applications in corporate, educational, medical and governmental institutions. So why are audiovisual presentations popular? Audiovisual presentations give a graphic view and provide first hand information on the subject. Without bandwidth constraints, audiovisual presentations include high quality video, animation, simulations, photographs, illustrations, narration, sound effects and music. They can be played in different speeds and the visuals can be clearly seen and understood with the use of slow motion and time-lapse photography. Hence, carefully planned, well-executed video clips can make a dramatic impact on the audience. |