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The future is here

Alex Kipman: A futuristic vision of the age of holograms

I can't express enough enthusiasm and excitement that grips me seeing THAT thing in OUR world. I believe great things lie ahead. And Hololens is one of the instruments of creating a great future for our children. 

Thanks a lot to Alex Kipman and his whole team for creating such a mind-blowing thing and making all of us one step closer to the future.

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"Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting"

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.

In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his $450 seminars (considered a must by industry insiders), providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen. No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the "magic" of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.

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"Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication that Drives Action"

Advanced Presentations by Design

Based on extensive research studies from the fields of communication, marketing, psychology, multimedia, and law, "Advanced Presentations by Design, Second Edition," provides fact-based answers to the most-often-asked questions about presentation design. The book shows how to adapt your presentation to different audience personality preferences, what role your data should play and how much of it you need, how to turn your data into a story, and how to design persuasive yet comprehensible visual layouts.

Pearl 1

Great presentation on presentations! 

Алексей Каптерев: презентации, которые что-то меняют

Alexei Kapterev talks about things that make great presentations.

1 Aim:

When the aim of your presentation is to inform somebody about something, more often than not you'll end up making people sleepy. Informing is a function of lectures or reports, NOT presentations!

What will serve as a good aim for any presentation is focus on what you want people to:

- understand;
- do;
- or change their opinion about something.

You don't need to inform; you have to burn.

2 Formula for a good presentation? 
Presentation = information + your personal attitude towards this information

(Logic on the left; emotions on the right)
















3 Order of asking questions:
1) Who?
2) To whom?
3) Why?
4) What?
5) How?

4 What a presentation is made of:
Story (exposition(story hero)+problem+solution(3-4 points)+conclusion) -> Slides -> Delivery

5 Do NOT start with Power Point
Power Point makes you think slides, confining you to stick to basic patterns of the presentation.
Better to use such programs as:
- Mind Manager
- FreeMind

6 You can't say EVERYTHING!
Say about 5% of the things you know

7 To make a good presentation, you need only one thought and a lot of discipline
If you do this, people start thinking about what you haven't said in your presentation. 
A presentation must contain only one simple idea; all the others should be deduced from it.

8 Take good images; draw if you can!

9 What's the aim of each slide?

10 Think through the design!


11 Make eye contact