[DM-MUG] Keynote presentations

[Victoria L. Herring]

 From my lawyer list.
>
>We've been using Keynote for mediation presentations.  We haven't
>been doing anything particularly creative, mostly just highlighting
>pages of depositions, medical records, accident reports, etc.
>
>Last night I created a very quick and dirty "special effect".  We
>have a crummy, freehand, not-to-scale diagram on a Texas Department
>of Public Safety accident report.  I filled the screen with that
>diagram.  I then dissolved to a very basic schematic which traced the
>officer's objects and lines and added text boxes indicating
>measurements.  Then, using those same objects and lines, I dissolved
>to another version which moved objects and lines around to put the
>diagram in rough perspective.  It took about twenty minutes for me to
>figure out how to do it; it will take me five minutes next time.
>
>We played it today during the mediation, and opposing counsel was
>wowed by it, asking how we did it, and noting it was obvious it
>wasn't Powerpoint.  I haven't played with Powerpoint since I've been
>using Keynote (for about two years), so I cannot verify that
>statement.  But it was interesting.
>
>I'm attaching an article below, extolling the virtues of Keynote.
>
>
>
>http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/06/duarte_design_h.html
>
>Duarte Design helps Al Gore "go visual" -- very interesting;  Gore 
>uses Keynote.
>
>
>Chris Scott
>Connolly & Castagna, L.L.P.

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