I have a little experience of the "polishing of presentations" industry (if someone is in a bank in London at 2am, odds are its one of the army of powerpoint polishers working for the sales teams 9am meeting)
The presentation here:
http://kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends
covers most of the major "modes" for a PPT. I would suggest each of these is a "feature" that you could sell. I would guess your ideal brief would be
"I want to review 2012, talk about the foobar project
and predictions for 2013. Alice, Bob and charlie did one
each. Please put a bookend in between all three, take
the data in the enbedded excel and make it animated, and
find me a picture of a foobar that succeeded and one that
is dead and covered in an oil slick"
* bookends (plain slide, concept in words, introduces next few slides conceptually)
* Graphs - this was the main cause of problems - twenty excel sheets and the instructions to pull out "sales". I would make this time and materials, but it will be a really powerful area - the above example from one of SVs biggest investors has boring Excel produced slides. Animate them, hgihlight the graphs with zooms, make them OSX not win98 and people will really pay. Trust me.
* expositiory images - pictures tell a story - the before and after images here are a good example, but they take time and effort to find.
And thats before we get onto the idea that really most PPTs need an editor to tease out the story (dont let your 1:1 people get dragged into understanding the whole presentation unless they are on Time and Materials), and interactivity (pygame is a good one here) really can work well.
I have a little experience of the "polishing of presentations" industry (if someone is in a bank in London at 2am, odds are its one of the army of powerpoint polishers working for the sales teams 9am meeting)
The presentation here:
covers most of the major "modes" for a PPT. I would suggest each of these is a "feature" that you could sell. I would guess your ideal brief would be * bookends (plain slide, concept in words, introduces next few slides conceptually)* Graphs - this was the main cause of problems - twenty excel sheets and the instructions to pull out "sales". I would make this time and materials, but it will be a really powerful area - the above example from one of SVs biggest investors has boring Excel produced slides. Animate them, hgihlight the graphs with zooms, make them OSX not win98 and people will really pay. Trust me.
* expositiory images - pictures tell a story - the before and after images here are a good example, but they take time and effort to find.
And thats before we get onto the idea that really most PPTs need an editor to tease out the story (dont let your 1:1 people get dragged into understanding the whole presentation unless they are on Time and Materials), and interactivity (pygame is a good one here) really can work well.
Sorry for the rambling - its late. Good luck