Key to “An Inconvenient Truth”
If you haven’t checked out Al Gore’s new movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” you should. The movie chronicles Gore’s lifelong persuit of pushing the public’s needle of knowledge on global warming. It’ll make you want to buy a hybrid tomorrow, then tell all of your friends to see the movie as well..no matter what side of the line you’re on.
The movie is brilliant, his content is brilliant, and his presentation is even more brilliant. AND, it was all done using Apple’s incredible presentation software Keynote.
Check out this great article on the how and why behing it:
Key to “An Inconvenient Truth”
June 29th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
[...] Update: I had an amazing conversation with some of my coworkers yesterday about how great Gore’s presentation slides look in the film. The owners of the company spend a lot of time giving presentations and are frustrated with the way powerpoint looks. I’ve suggested Keynote, which is the software Al uses, but there was never a realization by the powers-that-be of the stunning look the software could create. Dave Morin just linked to an article at Apple.com about Gore and the filmmakers using Keynote to create both the slideshow and some of the images used in the film. I used the software all the time as a Campus Rep for Apple and it is a very powerful, yet simple piece of communication software. [...]