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Making your book Ways of making powerpoint work!
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In this session you will be able to: Understand how to design a page layout Develop ideas for your page design Design your pages Make and collect the assets needed Make your pages Some of you will be able to make your book not like a slide show
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Before we go any further! DO YOU HAVE YOUR STORY! REMEMBER WE NEED A STORY NOT A STORY SYNOPSIS, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
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Things to think about what happens on each page? what images will you use and how are you going to do this? How will the text and images work together What is the style of piece? Create an assets list
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Design each page what images will you use and what is its purpose? how will you create the image? what happens in this part of your story? what audio will you use? what is the layout design for this slide?how will this page be interactive?
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It is all about the font! You need to think really carefully and decide on a collection of font styles that work for your story Do not use comic sans, times new roman or Ariel What colour font will you use? What size of font? Experiment with font style
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Margins and gutter Thinking about the spacing of the content of the page gives an invitation to the reader and welcomes them Although we are working in an interactive space, we need to use margins as we would with any book and this will help us accomplish our final layout. Within powerpoint you have a ruler and gridlines, use these to help you space your work, then when you are happy switch it off. When we refer to the gutter it is the portion of the page that is not used, as this is for binding and is deemed unusable. This can also be the central part for a double page spread. For our work will the gutter be where you buttons will go!
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Make sure you have selected your ruler and guidelines. This will help you work with margins Use the margins to help you invite the reader in and help them to navigate your story.
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Pace yourself To increase the pace: Use shorter paragraphs, shorter sentences, and occasional sentence fragments. Use less description, more dialogue. Use active verbs and fewer modifiers (adjectives and adverbs). Focus on the events that move the action forward rather than switching to subplots. Have something important happen in each chapter, and keep the chapters short. Cover periods of inaction with a transitional sentence rather than going into details about what happened. To slow the pace: Use longer sentences, longer paragraphs. Include more narrative and less dialogue. Use more modifiers, less active verbs Switch to subplots between chapters high in tension. Every story has a rhythm. If it’s a monotonous one, readers may lose interest. Pacing the rhythm can build tension, emphasize important events, stir the reader’s emotions, and move the action forward. Proper pacing will keep the reader moving forward but allows the action to slow down when appropriate to emphasize the importance of certain things along the way.
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Justify yourself When you are working with your page, think to yourself, how are you going to justify your text? I do not mean that your text has to justify its reason for being there Justify your text: Left Justify Centre Justify Right Justify Justify What does this do in telling your story and how does this change your text?
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Before you begin making the book make sure you have designed what you are going to do, try using the template on the next slide to help you. Treat it as a storyboard. Giving you an indication of what is to happen on each page
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Here are some examples in working progress
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