Thursday, March 31, 2011

Make.


I got a gig doing a PowerPoint for this initiative called the Take Action Leadership Campaign, which I gather is an after-school program, of sorts, in the LA area, that does Service Learning Projects, Celebration of the Arts, STEM, and other things that I put into a pie chart this evening.

From the years 2001-2003, I made at least one PowerPoint every week for my youth group, because I was the "intern" of some nature. Again in the Summer of 2006, I made a PowerPoint a week for the church with which I grew up.

So I have basically mad PowerPointing skills.

My Dean of Students networked me with this organization, and while the timeline is short, the job pays well, and besides, PowerPoint is fun! There is something strangely satisfying about making all the text boxes align, and the graphics bounce in on schedule (we're going for "dynamic" here).

My crowning glory of the evening is figuring out how to download YouTube videos, convert them to video files to open with Adobe Premiere Pro, and then slice into individual clips, which can then be inserted into a PowerPoint slide. This took a long time, and a restart, but it was worth it.

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