Understand Your Goal

Understanding what you are trying to accomplish sounds like a simplistic or even obvious thing—something we should take for granted. However, not knowing what you’re doing in advance is one of the most common reasons projects get stalled, abandoned, and confused. I hope this section gives you some things to think about to make sure that before you begin, you have a clear vision of why you are making a slide show.

Before you start to plan how to put your show together, you need to know why you are doing the show in the first place, who your intended audience is, what you intend to say, and what emotional feeling you want the show to have. Take some time to think these things through, because your full understanding of each of these categories can considerably change the planning of your show.