FETC: Double-Click to Edit: Hacking Keynote

These are my notes from the “Double-Click to Edit: Hacking Keynote” session at the 2016 FETC conference.

Presenter

Shows video of Worst Presentation Ever.
It is great when people can’t tell you are using Keynote, they think you are using an app they have never seen.
Every Keynote has a style.
Showed Dick Hardt presentation style video.
Showed clip of Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone and comments on the Keynote design style.
- “Is a widescreen iPod, a phone, and an Internet communication device.” Those are actually 3 bullets points, but each has own slide with a big icon.
- Then he repeats the slides, but sped up, to create a visual joke.
@ambyburvall has a unique style. She draws everything in Paper by FiftyThree and uses white and pink on black background.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Picaso.
“I am not the expert. I am a practitioner”

Places where you can find images to use:
- Pixabay
- Shutterstock
- The Noun Project, which tries to find an image for every noun in the English language
- Compfight, a Flickr search tool.
- Creative Commons Search
- Canva
Has the audience look for an image representing standardized testing and post with #hackkeynote.

Think about
- Colors:
  - Not too many.
  - The desired mood should drive color choices.
  - Have enough contrast.
- Fonts
  - Serif vs. sans serif.
  - Size: font size should be double the age of the average person in audience.
- Animation style
  - Don’t distract.
  - Tell a story.
  - Timed events verses programmed animations.
  - Consistency
- Image type: photos vs. clip art.
- Aspect ratio: he no longer uses 4:3.
Design, content, and delivery all work together. Think about the rate of presentation, such as talking quickly through many simple slides.
The Honey Slap: Sweet story to pull in the audience, followed by harsh statement.

Magic move
Instant Alpha: remove background of image
Layering animation: he demonstrated how he made a couple of slides, such as an elevator door opening. He keeps saying each animation takes many hours.