How can I create a slidshow for my wedding on powerpoint. I need tips including adding songs.?

2 Comments to “How can I create a slidshow for my wedding on powerpoint. I need tips including adding songs.?”

1. plumdumplings says:

   July 9, 2009 at 4:36 am

   I did a PowerPoint show for my cousin’s bat mitzvah. My original intention was to start at the beginning of her life and go in sequence. But as I scanned and gathered the images together, I started to change my mind.

   I wanted to use multiple music clips and even even if I was mostly concerned what music would go with the images, I also wanted to include some of her personal favorites. That just extra to the thinking administer.

   So - I would suggest getting all of your pictures scanned, sized and gathered in one place (it will be simpler and safer if you make duplicates of all the digital minutes). Then start looking at them - in thumbnail or filmstrip view. Get a feel for what you have. Then make some folders for how you reckon you want to split them out - you as a baby, your husband as a baby, etc. Then start splitting.

   This was the top where I realized sequential images weren’t going to be as impactful for my situation and instead grouped into pictures of my cousin with here family, with her brothers, doing water things (lots of vacation pics), dressed up (plays, halloween). Images just kind of naturally started going into categories.

   Then the fun part - alternative music. I looked at all the music I had, I went to lyric quest sites to help trigger thoughts, and I kept looking at the pictures. Baby pictures - Be My Baby (Ronettes). Family - We Are Family (Sister Sleigh). Brothers (she’s the oldest with 2 brothers) I Will Follow (Carole King). Water things - Surfin’ USA (Beach Boys). Costumes - Dress You Up (Madonna), etc.

   By that top, you’ll know if your thought is aptly and you can start building the show. I’ll have to agree with the previous answer that PowerPoint might not be the absolute best way to do this, but that’s what I had at hand. I edited separate snippets of songs. The excellent thing about that is that you can cut out the stuff that makes no sense - I used Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl for a huge chunk of cute pics of my cousin, but I certainly didn’t want the lyrics "making like in the green grass" in a bat mitzvah show!

   It’s a lot simpler to work with the snippets because you can adjust their length or the length of the matching slides, but the transition isn’t too smooth. I faded in and out of the music, but could never get a cross fade. PowerPoint isn’t exactly consistent. You could try editing all the music into one piece - it will be more challenging to make the pictures run aptly with it, but the sound will be more professional.

   I made a title slate that was really cute. I also would find images (either generic or a touch of my cousin) that I could cut out and have glide by or peek in - a pic of my cousin and her brothers on a rubber raft flew owing to the water section, baby rattles rotated on top of the baby section, Flick from Bug’s Life stuck his head in during the costume section (she was dressed as him). Just cute stuff to make it more fascinating.

   I finished on a touch sappy - certainly end sappy - leave ‘em with a tear in their eye

   You could slate each section. And certainly do different types of animations per section. If it’s pleased peppy music - do the goofy glide-ins and bounces and zooms. If it’s sweet and slow, stick with fades or ascends and descends. I usually place up 2 or 3 pictures at one time. I had over 100 pictures to work with and jammed them all in.

   I’d say keep it in the 5 small range. No matter how fantastic it is for you, people will get bored.

   If you are using PowerPoint, my largest suggestion would be to make the presentation on the computer that will be in succession the show. All computers are not made copy and you don’t want to make a gorgeous show on your computer and then find out it won’t run on the one you have at the wedding. Also, that takes care of fonts - I’m guessing you’ll be using fun fonts, and if you run on a different computer, you’ll have to gather them all up and install them on that computer.

   Whew…
2. $eCReT HeLPeR says:

   July 9, 2009 at 4:36 am

   if you want to make a slide show out of your pictures and add songs to in when the photos play i would suggest you use windows movie make rather that power top.

   you can find movie maker under start menu. every option is just drag and drop.