Online Examples of Killer Keynote Presentations?

I need to create a presentation that will be compared to a bunch of competitors. The competitors are all using PowerPoint. I did something in Powerpoint years ago, and it was better then what others were doing, but I need to see if I can come up with something really awesome in Keynote to sweep the PowerPointers into the WinDoze dustbin of irrelevance.

I have plenty of HD video footage and HiRes stills to incorporate, but when it comes to the creative portion, well, I suck. Typical Apple trainers say "well, Keynote can do just about anything you want, what do you want to do?" Like I know! lol

Can anyone direct me to examples online of really creative Keynote presentations so I can get some direction and show up the PowerPointers?

Posted on Oct 7, 2009 8:44 PM

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Oct 7, 2009 10:58 PM in response to ScubaMag

Almost everything I've learned about graphic design (not having studied it formally), I learned from John McWade's Before & After articles at www.bamagazine.com. Some of his articles are offered free on his site or at others such as istockphoto,com. Look for his article #668 "Picture Your Presentation" for great ideas on how to give each slide great impact and avoid the ordinary.

I've given dozens of presentations as part of public outreach programs and in my college teaching and I constantly have people coming up to ask what program I used to make my presentations. My advice is to use striking symbolic images and only a few key words or numbers per slide. Just the fact that your templates are so much better designed than Powerpoint's will make our presentation stand out. Throwing in a few judicious, stunning builds (or smart builds) and transitions (the perspective and anagram effects alway get ooohs and aaahs) will add even more dramatic affect.

Anyone can clutter up a presentation with lots of visual razzle-dazzle, but paring yours down to its essential elements will make it memorable. Good luck.

Oct 8, 2009 6:38 AM in response to ScubaMag

This may not be what you want, but Dick Hardt's ID 2.0 presentation is very distinctive and stylish. He uses Keynote, but mainly for the great still graphics and text support, and the style used does not involve fancy animations or transitions. It may not be suitable to what you want, but it does offer a different perspective on how to do presentations.

And, at the risk of sounding disloyal to the Mothership, have you seen Prezi? This presentation software will give you a very different-looking presentation, since it uses a completely different paradigm from the traditional "linear stack of slides" approach.

Oct 8, 2009 10:53 PM in response to ScubaMag

This is all really great info guys, I have checked through them all and will re-check it a bunch.

I agree with the sentiment to not go overboard with FX. I want audience members to concentrate on the message, delivered in a visually powerful yet appealing interface, and not be distracted by a different special effect every slide.

I have plenty of HD footage that is on-topic to the presentation theme, with less graphics...but the graphical style is probably what I need different examples of. Apple has some simplistic yet elegant stuff, with a partial mirror image of the image against a white background which is elegant.

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