Video Transcript: PowerPoint, Pics, and Videos

All right, welcome back to the communication class. On this lecture, we're going  to talk about the communication objective of using PowerPoint, pics and videos.  So any kind of media, PowerPoint that's in the Microsoft world. And then  Macworld, I forget what it's called Bali, what's it called? Keynote, Keynote,  PowerPoint, a lot of the world I think does. Anyway, they all sort of do the same  thing. Now I want to talk about some of the advantages of PowerPoint. First of  all, it's a visual outline, you can say things. But then now you can see them,  especially when you have different points, you're gonna make a list of five  things. You can save the first two, and they're still there. So people can sort of  see where you are in the big picture. People can just read along. It's easy to  reproduce in the future. Once you make a PowerPoint presentation a year later,  you can use the same presentation, all the slides, all the notes are still there. So it's easily reproduced. If you're teaching people, and you use a PowerPoint to  teach them, they can take that same PowerPoint and use it for someone else,  somewhere else. So it's easily reproduced. Number four, it's easy to follow. Just  like here we're going number one visual outline can read along easy to  reproduce, easy to follow. That's what you're doing, you're easily following. Easy to hand out, you just have to email the file to somebody, and they can review it.  For example, in this class, you want to watch it again. It's easy to do.  Disadvantages, there are some disadvantages. PowerPoint can compete with  the speaker. I'm trying to say things to you and I maybe have some stories. But  sometimes the PowerPoint is more interesting than the speaker. quotes that you use from other people, the visuals can be more stimulating than the actual  presenter, number two, Speaker often in the dark. So here we have a nicely lit  television screen, so you can see it very easily. And I'm sitting right under a light  so you can see me but a lot of churches, a lot of venues. In order to see the  screen, they turn the lights off. So then you have a speaker talking to you, and  all the emotion or the lack of emotion, the smile, the twinkle in the eye, you don't see those things very clearly the thing on the screen overpowers the person,  and the person is in the shadows. Number three, the speaker often does not  know what his next point is until he sees it along with everyone else. So when  you make a presentation on a PowerPoint, you tend to put things in some kind  of a logical order. But it's not in your head. When I preach a sermon, generally I  don't have PowerPoint. But I know what I'm going to talk about. It's it's all  following a pattern that I have in my head. The PowerPoint, I don't know right  now i right after the PowerPoint disadvantages. I'm not sure what's next. So I'm  just surprised that you as you are when I see it, speach can follow into this  pattern, slide explanation, slide explanation, like I'm doing right now, I show you  a new slide, I show you some words that I say something about it. Then we go  back to the slides, we see it and then they say something about it. And it kind of  goes into that pattern. And a lot of times when you get into a pattern. That's  when people go to sleep, or are distracted. Number five can often lead to an 

information dump like I'm doing right now I'm giving you five points so far. Now if I were to ask you to repeat all five, you'd be like something about in the dark. It's hard to remember a list of 10 things. Six speeches fall into a predictable pattern. Seven often speakers create their talk on PowerPoint. And therefore there's no  

when you when you write something in PowerPoint, you tend to think slide by  slide by slide by slide. You don't think about the whole. You don't think like, hey,  there's three large points. And then there's points under those three large points, it just becomes slide 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. So it's hard to hang on to the  whole talk. Alright, PowerPoint tips. Number one, make sure speaker is lit up.  Number two, don't use PowerPoint for everything that you can say. Use it when  it makes sense to use it. So that's a trap that PowerPoint users often fall into.  Now we do it here because we want to reproduce, we want you to be able to  look at again, you'll get, there'll be quizzes that you have to take, you have to  easily find the material. But when I get a sermon, generally, I try to limit  PowerPoint to where PowerPoint actually makes sense. I don't need to make  everything that I say something that you read along. Otherwise, I might as well  just print it off and hand it to you three with transitions and animations generally  stick with fades, avoid techy stuff. See, you notice that when I go from slide to  slide, it just fades from one slide to the next. When I go from sentence to  sentence, it just fades. It doesn't do checkers, and boxes, flying things. And  there's all these different rights that you can use in PowerPoint. Sometimes  people have different ones, speckled, it's like a comet coming in, it's a swirl, it's  blinds that open and all that just becomes very distracting. You don't want your  PowerPoint distracting. From what you're saying you want it to add to what  you're saying. Use a little variety, don't use the same font every time, the same  color, take advantage of all the different things it can do. Alright pics, so now  we're moving beyond PowerPoint. Though pictures can be put into PowerPoint,  or they can be independent advantages of pictures, a picture's worth 1000  words, sometimes a picture says more than what you could put into words.  Number two, can illustrate a point. If I'm talking about Albert Einstein, it might be  good to see what Albert Einstein looks like. Disadvantages can overpower the  message. Again, people come to hear you speak. They don't come just to watch a picture book. And sometimes the picture can overcome overpower the  speaker, the pictures more interesting, the story that the picture tells is more  interesting than the person telling the story can take up take audience down on  an unintended path when you show an emotional picture. All of a sudden,  people are now thinking about that you used it for a particular illustration or for a  reason. But now that reminds people of something and other you know, thinking  about that I once did that with wasn't a picture, it was more of an object lesson. I had a funeral director bring in a casket. And I had a wheeled up to the front of  the sanctuary. And I said to people, you know, this isn't, you know, this isn't the  casket of the person that you just last went to the funeral. This is your casket. 

Because you won't be around to see what it looks like. I thought we should look  and see what it is. So I took it and took the insides out and showed everyone  what it was. So I was trying to illustrate something that you're gonna die one  day, and you should think about life from the end, you're going to die. So what  does that mean for the rest of your life now, but what happened, the image was  so powerful, it so reminded people of a lost one that they loved. And that's gone  now that they couldn't get past that they didn't hear what I was saying or my  intention for the illustration. They went down on their own it was like more  powerful than what I was trying to use it for. That's when the image takes over  your speech. Speaker has little control over where an image will take people.  Images can be emotional. Different people have different emotional attachments to different images and and you may have a purpose, but the image is going to  do what it wants to do. Alright, I'm going to show you a use of images. This is  sort of a map of Jerusalem. This is 2000 years ago. So we have Jerusalem  here. And then we have the Kidron Valley here. It's a pretty steep valley. And  then we have the Mount of Olives. So Jesus somewhere. People are guessing  that Jesus had his last supper with His disciples somewhere in this part of the  city. Then they went out and they they go down to this valley and they go  halfway up this mountain is quite a hike If it's at least a half a mile or more, three quarters of a mile, so they'd walk all the way up here. And here's where the  Mount of Olives. Okay, so I have a map showing you that. But, you know, what  does it look like? So this is sort of in Jerusalem, this is sort of a model, like, I  mean, it's a huge model, you can see how big it is. So here would have been  where that upper room was. And they would have had to go out the city and go  all the way to this valley, all the way up here to the Mount of Olives. So you get  more of a 3d view here, but we still don't quite get it. Okay, so they have a leave  here, go to the valley, come up to the Mount of Olives. And here's the Mount of  Olives. In fact, some of these trees existed at the time of Christ. Some of these  trees are over 2000 years old. Now, is this the exact spot? Well, we don't know.  But this is where the Mount of Olives, were. Okay. So now I bring you back, the  Mount of Olives is here, they had to go through the valley. It's overlooking the  temple this way. So now we're looking from the Mount of Olives, through the  Kidron Valley, up the hill. So you can see how steep that is. This is the walls of  Jerusalem. So they had to come out, walk all the way through this valley, and  then up the hill. So I couldn't explain this to you. Without using these pictures,  you can sort of see it or visualize it. Here, you're looking from Jerusalem, from  the walls of Jerusalem, down through the valley, up to the Mount of Olives, this  was the Mount of Olives here, the lower part. Alright, so we're back here. This is  the direction we were looking, we're looking from the temple mount across the  valley to the Mount of Olives. Alright, here's more of an aerial view. Here's the  Temple Mount of Olives over here, this is where the upper room was. And then  here's some different options in terms of where Jesus was crucified where the 

guard guard or the tomb was. So here's the traditional place, just outside the city walls. But here's another area called the Garden Tomb, there's like two options.  So from the Mount of Olives, remember, Jesus gets arrested, and he's taken to  Antonia Fortress to go before Herod. So you can kind of see in the long place he had a long ways to go. Okay, now here we're looking from this side to the Mount 

of Olives is over here. Kidron Valley is right here. Here's the Temple Mount,  here's the fortress where Pilate would be, here's the traditional place just outside the city gates, now most city walls go way out here. But in Jesus day, they went  here to the traditional place of Golgotha, the Church of the Holy sepulchre is  here. And then outside of this gate, would be that garden tomb. So we're back  here, just want to show you all of that again. Back here, you can see that this is  inside the Church of the Holy sepulchre, this is fact under this altar, there's a  little there's a little hole in the ground, you can put your hand and touch the rock  of Golgotha, at least that's traditionally people think that was, this is just a couple 100 yards away, this would be the tomb. And they built this little church structure inside this domed church to cover it up and you can go inside and see the cave,  okay, so that's in this region. The other option is the garden tomb, which is just  this city wall. So this is outside here, this was outside there are they're both fit in  the description. And this looks more like what we think. And this is an actual  tomb from 2000 years ago. We don't know exactly if it was Jesus tomb or not.  But that's what it looks like. Now, what's very interesting is Golgotha is is is  translated the place of the skull, and in about 100 or 200 yards from where that  garden tomb was, is this rock structure. Now this whole rock structure in the  garden tomb is right along the main highway, the main highway going out of  Jerusalem. And so a lot of people say where they would crucify someone is not  on some hill, but along the main highway as a deterrent. So people going by  would see these men being crucified and and be motivated to not do whatever  they did. So, so just outside this property called the garden tomb is this rock  formation. And here's a picture from about 80, 90 years ago of that rock  formation. And you can see, it looks like a skull, two eyes can see that it sort of  has that look like a skull. So this is the main road, there's the place of the skull.  So there, so people that make this are proposed that this is the actual site of  Jesus crucifixion would say, the crosses were put alongside of this road. And  then the burial grounds would be like a couple of 100 yards, that direction. This,  by the way, right now we're that rock formation, the place of the skull is, is the  bus depot. So there's nothing there, there's, which to me is kind of interesting. I  mean, the place where Jesus maybe died, the most important event in world  history, perhaps second to the resurrection happened right here. And it's, it's a  bus stop. It's a bus station now. And from the grounds of the Garden Tomb, you  can see these bars and so on, you can look over at it. So it's like, we've not  made a shrine out of the traditional plates. It's got a big church over it, and it's  filled with candles and incense, and people come and they, they almost worship 

the place more than what Jesus did on the cross. I kinda like this. Alright, so  what are some advantages to this kind of thing? Let me let me just go back to  these pictures a second. So I can tell this story, I use this in my church to talk  about the options for where Jesus death and resurrection were and, and to give  people a feel for Jerusalem and, and that last night, Jesus going to the different  places where he was arrested, where he was betrayed, where he had to go  before Pilate, and these were long walks that he had to take, and it just  becomes more real. And with pictures, you can actually take people there. And  people can sort of see it and get it without having to travel all the way to Israel.  Alright, so, videos, advantages, there's a lot of material out there, there's so  much material, almost any subject you want to deal with, there's someone who  made a video of it, you can make your own videos, you take your phone, and  you just turn it on. And what's interesting. And sometimes people, sometimes  what I will do is I'll make some kind of announcement or some kind of talk on my phone, I will send it to our projector at church. And people listen more to my  video than to me personally, in part because I'm you know, 10 feet tall, and I  don't know what it is they can see your facial expression, or we live in a very  screen conscious world. There's a lot of material out there. It's relatively easy to  use, you can find, you know, old speeches, President Kennedy here in the  United States, you want his speech about the dream of going to the moon. You  can, you can get him actually saying those words. So it's amazing what you can  find. You can enhance the speech, you're talking about some historical events.  And now you can show pictures of it. Or you can get some experts saying  something about it. It's great for pastoral care messages a couple of weeks ago, and one guy got an accident. And he was in the hospital. And I didn't know if he  could have visitors or not. So I just made a video. Hey, Schaefer, here, this  happened to you and I know it's something you're going to have to deal with.  The recovery is going to be a long time. And just remember God is with you.  Deuteronomy 31:8, the Lord Himself goes before you and He will be with you.  He will never leave you or forsake you do not be afraid, do not be discouraged. I can share a verse, I can share a prayer, and I can just immediately send it to  him and he could watch it whenever he was able to watch it. So I can instead of  driving half an hour there waiting, maybe not getting to see you, I can just do it. I can just do it right now. And you can do a lot of your pastoral care that way.  Number five it's great for getting info out to a group of people. So a lot of times I  have an associate pastor or church a lot of times after our staff meeting, we'll  just get the phone out and we'll just get up both be on it. And we'll say I so  pathway here we are. What's the update? Well, we got this new thing coming  up. Saturday if some of you are interested. And we just sort of run through some of the things that we would say, and what's weird is if we did that on a Sunday  morning, we just did it live, stood up in front of church and talked about things  that are coming up and what's happening, people are just tune us out. Because 

we make it on a video, and they see you up close and personal. And usually we  have a little bit of humor going back and forth. People actually watch it.  disadvantage to videos, speaker knows the context from which he took a clip,  but the audience may not get it. So that's the downside, a lot of times people will string videos and pictures and all this multimedia. And you know, I'm into a  subject, I'm trying to preach on something. And then I think, well, I'm going to  show this video. And I show a little clip of some movie. Now I understand the  whole movie, I understand how this clip fits into the thing that I'm talking about.  But someone has never seen the movie, they get to, they have no idea what's  happening, you know, from a 30 second clip, they don't get what the video was  about, and they don't get how it relates to your message. And that's often the  case, cuz you're into it, you know what you're doing, you understand how all  these pieces go together, you've been over the ground many times. But the first  time hearer is like I don't know, I don't know how these things fit together.  Sometimes it's hard to get into a short, unknown scene, when you show a video  clip. And if you're like me, sometimes just the sound quality isn't quite there. I  don't even know what people are saying at first. My ears have to get used to it.  Or the lighting or I don't know who's who I don't know who's speaking, I can't  keep one character straight from the other one. So the whole context of what's  going on. I may not get. Problems and delays with the projection that all this  tech stuff, the speaker thing doesn't work or the sound is just a little bit off, or are we you know, we can't get to things, new color or whatever it might be all theiof  bad. Sometimes the video is so powerful that when people leave church on that  Sunday morning, all they can remember is your video clip, they have no idea  what the passage was. The video is so bad that it becomes a distraction thing.  So again, they're they're moved off from what you're trying to say. So anyway,  I'm just trying to give you an overview of the different things you can do  PowerPoint is a good thing, but try to use it when it makes sense. Don't just  keep using it. People don't need all 10 points listed. They need the big the big  picture. Or if you tell a story sometimes just telling the story is sometimes I want  to do a visual and the visuals there. Here's Abraham Lincoln. And I want you to  see this. And this is where he's born his his log cabin. And so all the sudden  there's a whole lesson on Abraham Lincoln, and not the thing that I really want  to communicate. Abraham Lincoln is just my example. And sometimes just  telling the story, sometimes it's tempting to have the video clip, do its thing. So in the video clip, something is happening. And the Titanic has gone down. And the  father is helping the child in the boat and you actually see it from a movie. So  they're watching this thing, but it's only a three minute thing. They don't know  who's who. The quality isn't that good. They're, they're not into it. Where  sometimes you can just tell the story. And then the father is standing there at the edge of the deck. His his daughter and his wife are getting into the boat. The  daughter's got a hold of the dad's hand. And the last thing he says is Be a good 

girl and hold on to mommy's hand. And He hands the girl's hand over to  mommy. And that's the last time that young girl saw her father alive. Sometimes  just telling the story in a dramatic way is better than watching a two minute  middle of the clip thing from some movie and people can't quite get into it. So  don't. Don't let your videos and your pictures. Take away your own storytelling.  People still respond best to someone who's using their face and their emotion  and the words and acting it out. Act out it live rather than just always showing  pictures. Sometimes it's good. You can enhance it. But I'm telling you, the  tendency is to overuse and abuse PowerPoint pictures videos, rather than use  them to enhance your talk. Alright, so this week is you go out, try to, you know, if you're giving a speech, try to maybe if that's the goal, just try to limit yourself to,  you know three essential things that you're going to do three powerful things that you're going to use mass media to accomplish that we'll see you real soon.