Canine PowerPoint Presentation

Unusually a sickly sweet, saccharine advert for Microsoft Windows 7 caught our attention this week. Unusual because it featured PowerPoint, starred PowerPoint and was pretty much all about PowerPoint. PowerPoint certainly has a reputation that’s below where it deserves to be. No doubt this type of commercial aims to restore some perspective to your next choice of presentation software. The advert shows a canine PowerPoint presentation as “the secret weapon” used to persuade a boy’s parents to buy a dog in a classic filial pitch.

The boy’s narrative picks on all the key elements of good presentation design and style: a title, theme, key points and an argument.

Great stuff.

Bar Charts In This Canine PowerPoint Presentation

The advert also features PowerPoint charts with the memorable line…”nothing beats a good bar chart.” I’m sure that’s not the case but, done well, they can be compelling. But they have to be good.

Nothing beats a good bar chart.

Last, but not least, the narrator introduced us to video inserts in the PowerPoint presentation. And with that–boy and canine friend–he nailed it…a compelling presentation.

This short advert captured many of the key points of an effective presentation. Its authenticity was sealed with the boy narrator using the presentation for a purpose, to achieve a goal. And that really is the point of any presentation.