Be Yourself.

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Hey there! This is Tahmid and I am presenting a slide mostly consists about me.
My slide represent something about my culture and something about me and the social teen life. It was created for the cause to be noticed, be remembered by others, to be read or understood by others and also for some to take some actions. 

My one purpose was o make the slide visual. For ex: '' For most of us'', if we see something appealing, it stuck to our mind for most then seeing something unattractive. Another thing that you can notice in my slide is that the size of the texts are big. Displaying big texts are easy for individuals to be noticed then texts that are really small and indubitably the person who's trying to read my slide will have a hard time and probably lose any interest if they had any at first place. SIZE MATTERS! I also tried to bleed of my images in order to make it more interesting. We don't have to fit the whole pic in the frame! As long as someone understand hat the cut off edge of the picture is supped to men, you are fine, take it easy. 

Emptiness. One of my main concern while creating the slide was emptiness. One might think the more info you put on a slide the better. Yes, it might be true in some case but while you want to persuade someone to do something, it's better to make them understand it in the simplest form possible. 
Why does my slide look the way it does? Well, as you can see my whole background is black and the main purpose of that was so the people can visualize the items that were being displayed at the front. Not sure if you guys did notice or not but all the pictures that are in the slide, there background was been cut off my an internet program that I found. I didn't ant to put differ background at one slide that is supposed to represent something. Plus emptiness was my main deal so if I inserted those background that came with the pic, my main value will be eliminated. 

What influenced my decision? I came from Bangladesh, and I lived in the city of Dhaka. Let me tell you, Dhaka was in the top board of being the crowded city in the world! As i grew up there, every time I went out I would notice how people trying to get past each other real fast. They were not concerned of taking time and thinking about what'll happen next. As for traffic, I seen cars that were so close to each other and if they had any chance, they would accelerate and get by one another. Are they thinking about the consequences that they would have to face if a single crash occurred? How many people could die? 
As for another reason us teenagers these days....we look up to stars, celebrities and what they do. They are like our idol! But are we following them in a right way?

Tailgating means to follow up something really close. The picture with the car demonstrates how they were really close to each other and the crash took place but what about in normal life? What if we followed someone or really wanted to be like then really closely and something happened to us? Yes, having an Idol is good but what if we have the wrong one? For ex: If someone follows Wiz Khalifa so closely and do whatever they do, would they have a good life? Wiz Khalifa sings about all the weed, smokes every time and what if someone did the same just cause he wanted to follow up Wiz Khalifa that closely?  The small car crash represents how their life would be damaged if they followed some ''bad celebrities'' that closely like the white truck. As you can see, the small car got more damaged then the white truck which represents, that someone will get their life in a poor condition with drugs, alcohol, weeds etc if we follow a celebrity like that. But look at the white truck, what damaged did he have? Not much as I can notice. There is my point, don't put your life in danger while you know that it's not going to affect the other who you are being influenced by. How did he second example of following a ''bad celebrity'' related to me? 

Well, I was once the kid who tried to be cool and once thought about carrying guns and knifes around and act like a gangsta. But, as I thought more and more about it, it's not going to bring any light to my life but will bring darkness that can never go away. And the first example relates to me by seeing how people were having competition at the street and influenced me having competition in life but no...Life is not a race. Enjoy the good life, cause you might not know what's going to happen at the next second. Stop building  tension and let the cool breeze take you where you please to be. So please, do not tailgate, it's not worth it.
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Hey There! This is Tahmid back again. I have received alot of criticism due to my previous slide not making sense to some people or it was hard for them to catch it up in couple seconds. SO, I've changed everything for my second slide and made a completely new one following what my classmates had to say.

1. One of my classmates said my previous slide was really crowded. So, on this slide I have tried to make the slide as empty as possible even though it took most of the space. In the presentation websites that we have received, we also saw the main detail of emptiness and I've worked it out on my new slide.

2. Second thing I changed on my new slide was that the catchy part. On the presentation site they've told us that to make sure you slide is welly visual-able so anyone can understand it in couple seconds. I think I've did a good on making that.

3. Third is I've learned from my classmates was the contrast. My previous slide had bad contrast and bad pictures which caused my slides to look really horrible. But on this slide I've tried to make the background orange-yellowish so the black and white birds can represent widely and the one colorful bird catches viewers eyes.

4. Another thing was the font I chose. I tried to pick out the best front that goes with the slide. That font best matches the slide because the birds dancing and flying all over and the font represent the freedom. 

5. Another of my goal was to give a message or word out to the viewers who will see my slide. They can get a positive info by looking at it and it surely won't take that long time for them to recognize what it really means.

My purpose of the second slide was to catch viewers attention and put all my criticism in one place and make the second slide a better representable one. I've changed lots of important details and hope it all worked out all. Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you've learn something from it. 

Comments (7)

Chhievling Seng (Student 2017)
Chhievling Seng

I really love the way it looks in appearance! I noticed your choice in the style of writing, I think it suits the picture. I wonder how the colorful bird would appear if the whole picture was in black and white instead of the light brown color. Really creative though!

Nevrid Nazif (Student 2017)
Nevrid Nazif

I noticed that you completely changed your slide into a better version, i wonder if u had another bird next to the one that is there, and what of you had a different type of font.

Corinthia Bell (Student 2017)
Corinthia Bell

I noticed the outstanding tweetie bird and how the others were dancing around that specific one. I wonder what it means "to dance to your own beat" What if the bird was not a bird but a chicken.

Ashlye Fitzmaurice (Student 2017)
Ashlye Fitzmaurice

I noticed that you had one point and your picture clearly stated it. The way you thought about having on bird stand out with multiple colors, it suits your slide perfectly.

I wonder, how it would look like if you didn't have the one bird stand out with the different colors. Would it look the same?

What if you didn't have the that block of black at the top right corner? It would maybe take the distraction away.

Aldo Caushaj (Student 2017)
Aldo Caushaj

I noticed that you have changed every thing about your new slide which is so much better then your old one its easy to tell what you are trying too say even if it does not have any words I can tell what your slide is trying get out. Nice job on your second slide nicely done

Miriam Sachs (Student 2017)
Miriam Sachs

I notice that the hummingbird is multiple colors while the other birds are black and white. This works because the words tell you to be different an hummingbirds tend to "dance."

I wonder why there are random blots of ink and the birds are facing away from the words.

What if the birds circled around the words and the hummingbird faced the words.

Ameena Atif (Student 2017)
Ameena Atif

The multi-colored bird works well with the paper-like background and the black/gray words. I noticed that there is a lot of extra space and the words are somewhat far from the birds. I wonder if you somehow changed the font how that would effect the slide. What if you made the white strip behind the quote match the background?