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Conclude Your E-Learning Modules with a Shrinking Cinematic Effect

Hey! And I am back, and this time with a simple PowerPoint effect created based on the basic animations. I think this effect can be used as an alternative method to end your e-learning tutorials with a cinematic effect while scrolling up the credit lines.

The below screenr will show you the Shrinking Cinematic Effect and the steps which I used to create the effect.

If you find my awkward pronunciation difficult to follow, scroll down this page further, and you will see the steps in written format with additional images. 


In these following steps, I am showing you a different example. If it was Pierce Brosnan who appeared in my Screenr video, now it is the turn of Tom and Jerry.

Step 1: You have the image of Tom & Jerry placed in a PowerPoint slide covering entirely the slide area. In this example, I have changed the slide background colour into black.


Step 2: Copy the image, place it exactly on top of the first image, and shrink the image by one or two centimeters from the right. Copy the second image and place it exactly on top of the previous image. Now you need to shrink the new image a bit more by a few centimeters. Repeat this process until you have the final image with a size half the size of the slide.



Step 3: Now select all images, and from the animations, give all images a Disappear exit animation. Please remember to remove the animation that you have given to the last image (the smallest one). Also, renaming the images in the Selection pane will help you a lot.


 Step 4: Now using the ‘send to back’ and ‘bring to front’ options, arrange the images in the descending order of the size. The largest image should be placed on top, the second largest image should come second, and proceeding in this manner, the smallest image should be placed last.

Step 5: Now, from the animation pane, make the animation of the second image start 0.1 seconds after the previous animation. You can use the advanced timeline option here. Every animation should be set with a gap of 0.1 seconds between each.


Step 6: If you will play the animation sequences, you can see that the image is getting shrunk from right side to left side. You can add the name of the module at the right portion of the slide to start with a fade animation after the shrinking effect and to exit with a fade animation after a few seconds.

Step 7: In the end, make the last and remaining image faded out with an after previous timing. If you want to show the credit lines, you can scroll them up before this final fade out.


I think this will give you a good way of conclusion to your e-learning tutorials.

Comments

Poornima said…
A nice dramatic end. Good technique.
Kram said…
Thanks for sharing, nice effect.
Unknown said…
E-learning is very nice and effective way to teach. This is possible due to E-learning Solution Company, it also provide online training in the form of web based programs.

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