Leo Dowell, a Charlotte-area interior designer specializing in French and Italian design, recently called on 1060 Creative to help put together a PowerPoint presentation for a lecture at Treyburne Country Club in Raleigh. It effectively ended up as a “PowerPoint in Two Acts”. Act 1 was an introduction to Leo and his small-town roots (he’s from Mount Airy, or “Mayberry” to all ya’ll who are Andy Griffith fans). Act 2 highlighted Leo’s brilliant interior design work.

Leo has always had a penchant for theatrical presentations, and this was no different. Although it was merely a PowerPoint slide show, 1060 helped bring it to life by using video elements (produced here at 1060), photo restoration (via Photoshop), and even by creating sound cues to be rolled in at certain parts of the presentation.

Video Elements

1060 inserted the following video in the presentation. This video, featuring Leo’s work at Charlotte’s own Courance community, was produced by 1060 Creative last year. And yes, that’s Anthony as “The Movie Guy Voice”.

Photo Restoration

Below is a photo of Leo’s father working in his grocery store. The year is unknown, but the original photo is washed out and lacks a lot of detail. Using some simple Photoshop techniques, 1060 quickly brought this photo (and others) back to life.

Sound Design

To help punctuate things, we created a number of sound cues to roll at certain parts of the presentation. Here are a couple of examples. And yes, once again, that’s Anthony as the voice talent.

“Once Upon A Time” was used to introduce the show and set the stage.

“Hello, it’s Oliver” accompanied the final slide (a picture of Leo’s dog, Oliver, below). The final song, “Young At Heart”, is truncated here for purposes of brevity.