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Author: Sandra Clukey
Planning is the key word for creating successful slide shows. This includes wedding slide shows, graduation slide shows, anniversary slide shows, birthday slide shows, memorial slide shows, etc... This is not difficult, but does require time and effort on your part before hiring a professional slide
1. Determine how long you want your slide show to be. The length of your slide show will determine how many photos you can use. If you are using the simple fade-in fade-out style, you can usually use about 80 pictures for a 10 minute show. And that is about all most audiences can handle. However, if you choose a slide show creating company that has more creative elements included in the slideshow production, then you may only be able to use 50-60 photos for a 10 minute slideshow. However, the upside of this is that a more creative slide show can last longer and seem shorter. A 20 minute creative slideshow can feel like only 10 minutes, where a 10 minute fade-in, fade-out slideshow can feel like 30 minutes to a lot of people. As we all know, we don't always enjoy viewing one another's photos for long periods of time. So, the more creative the show, the longer it can play and your audience will not even realize how much time has passed.
For instance: Sands of Time Multimedia Creations did a video slide show for a church that went on a mission trip. They were given hundreds of photos to work with and the end results were a one hour video slideshow presentation. As the youth gathered around to see this, they were not at all excited at the prospect of watching photo ( Next Page )
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