Whether you use Keynote or Powerpoint, try using a black background. It’s simple yet it adds elegance and impact to your message. With black, your main point is your point, not the color, logo or illustration. You may want to add a photo from istockphoto as a visual support. White fonts over black slide is so powerful. I use it in my client presentations, like research findings. One or two liners plus a graph or high res photo over black easily connects to your audience. Here are the other benefits.
1. Your audience will listen to you once they get your main point. Just make sure you know your stuff well.
2. Black slides will make you more visible even if you walk across the projector.
3. You can move around, and ‘own the entire room’ like a rockstar rather than being stuck on one side.
Check out this two designers Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte to find out more about the power of black.
