In this post Soft Skill will share on the visual usage of multimedia as part of the presentation skills.

Soft Skill will provide you tips on how to use visual multimedia effectively in your presentation in front of large audience.

Too many text based or bullet point slides created for the audience will cause them to get a hard copy of your slides in the end.

Remember that a picture speaks a thousand of words and this guide will help you to leverage your multimedia presentation just to get into the heart of the audience.

Follow the presentation skill tips as below for the effective communication.

Effective Multimedia Presentation Skills Tips

• Don’t rush to present when your new slide appears in projected screen, pause for a moment for your audience to blend into the new information
• Do not create text-heavy slides, it will cause the audience to read instead of listening to you
• Do not use or test any striking color in your presentation slide which will make it harder to read
• If you plan to use few colors in your slide, try to use it with the maximum of 3 colors to avoid audience eyesore
• Keep using the same background color to continue the same rhythm of your presentation
• Use graphical presentation such as charts when presenting figures, and it will be far more effective than describing in words
• Picture speaks a thousand words, choose your picture for presentation and make sure it aligned to your presentation topic
• Use the same font in all the slides, changing it from slide to slide will cause audience eye confusion
• Proof read your multimedia presentation to make sure there’s no error in spelling and grammar
• Slide numbering in your multimedia presentation will be useful as timing for yourself as presenter
• Shutdown the overhead projector when you are 100% sure that you don’t need the projection of your presentation