Moving graphic equalizer in PowerPoint - fun but maybe not that useful
I needed a chart to visualize 3 quality levels I think a presentation can go through:
- Your audience bothers to listen
- Your audience understands what you are trying to say
- Your audience follows up after leaving the room
Brainstorming some concepts, I ended up with that of a graphic equalizer beating away at higher intensity levels. Stock images failed, so here is the DIY approach in PowerPoint:
- Create distributed rows of narrow rectangles
- Add green, orange and red colors
- Add a "flicker" animation on the last 2 bars of each row (going back and forth between grey and the accent color),
- Set animation repeat to "until slide ends"
- Set animation speed to "very fast"
The still image does bring out the happily dancing bars very well though...
Rules (
animations do not add anything) are there to be broken sometime. Still, this type of chart fits in a more frivolous presentation setting, and not in one where you let's say have to pitch your company to venture capitalists.