How do you illustrate violent, gruesome, or disturbing topics? You don’t want to scare your audience, but you do want a reaction. Here’s a discreet way you can do it.
Before
This slide comes from a training presentation on how to deal with hazardous driving conditions. Usually, when redesigning a slide like this I would substitute a photo or video for the text. But after watching just a couple of road rage videos, I was deeply disturbed by the violence. I didn’t think that this would be the reaction the speaker would wanted the audience to have. So I needed to find a different way to add life to this slide.
After
In this video, I’ll show you the solution I came up with that eliminates most of the text while discreetly illustrating what road rage is all about.
Key Points
Use pictures when you can, but be discreet when illustrating disturbing topics.
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