Alexis Dean Q2 Media Fluency

When designing my slide, I used many of the tips and tricks from presentation zen to improve my already thought out design. The rule of thirds was a major slide setter for me. Meaning that I wanted balance to my slide as well as my world and I feel like the way that I arranged my pictures and my phrases and/or names on my slide would ease the way the audience viewed my slide. I also incorporated empty space and negative space into my slide because I could have made a collage for my presentation slide, but I wanted to to be audience friendly as well as an expression of me. I choose empty space because I feel like that is the way I live my life. In certain points having surroundings at all moments/areas and then whenever I feel be able to have my own empty space. I used tracking for my letters instead of kerning because I dont like when things are uneven or even just a little bit off. (I guess that's my ocd for ya lol) Other than that I used something called the 7 x 7 rule for my one slide to describe myself. The 7 x 7 rule states that there should be no more than 7 words on a slide other than the title. On my slide, there is exactly 7 words that all have many descriptive ways to explain myself without making my slide look junky.

From the Classroom discussion, I learned alot and received some really good feedback from my peers. The things I changed to make my slide better where getting rid of the words that I used to describe me and to have the pictures bleed into each other to each other to create more of a collage effect and to make my slide pop. In class I learned that less is more and by making your pictures bigger and having them bleed, creates for a really good slide and that was our mission. To become good designers.