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Hello. You already know my name, but i will repeat it again for the sake of profession.  

My name is Karen Ossowski.

My ¨Me Magazine¨ is called Introducing Me.

In the making of this project, i thought about not only the ¨Me Magazine¨ but i opened up to myself and thought, ¨who am i?¨ ¨what makes me, me?¨

I thought about it for a while, and i tried to put it in a few sentences.

What i didn't put in the slide, is my adventure with my best friend.

Some of you may have heard of this story before if you read my ¨Me Magazine¨

I won't tell the story for the sake of time, but if you really want to know i'll tell you later in the presentation.

I looked at how they put videos in frames, but i don't have any, so i went with the appearing. I also thought about colors, i thought to go light on the eyes and not make this too bright, i know that colors was a big thing and so was text fonts.

They said to go with lighter colors in the light and brighter in the dark.

One of the websites said something about a 90 something font size, and i thought, no way am i going to pull that off, i can barely get a 20 font.

I went with a smaller font because, well, i can write , but also, because it may keep some people interested, some maybe not, but with a lot of words it may hurt your eyes. I decided to do only some words but with a bigger font. I put a picture in the background because it represents my love for books and photography.

I tried to keep this slide simple, it tells you a lot about me, i'm simple, i keep things simple and that tells you a lot about my personality, the personality that you don't know very well.

Some things i'm not used to and i have to get used to considering i am going to be here for the next four years of my life.

Opening up to people is one of them, i told some of you about my anger issues, and possibly how i'm bipolar, so is most of my family.

Hello fellow classmates. I am here to tell you about how I made my slide. The first thing that I did on my slide is that I add pictures to my slide so it could describe the things that is on my Me Magazine. Another thing is that instead of providing details about my slide, I just add pictures so it could represent what I wrote on my Me Magazine for English class since the first week of school. The pictures that I put on my slides are soccers and friends. I did that because of my I have a passion for soccer and I really love my friends so I thought why not write about it. So now I made a slide that shows my passion for soccer and also explains how I really love my best friends. The background is bright blue because it stood out to me and it really cute too.

I made this script because it embodies everything I’m doing right now. I like it because it’s glance media you can look at it and there’s a message you just have to think about it a little bit. My whole magazine pretty much tells the story of how I’ve loved basketball and how I moved here to pursue it.

I like this slide because of the big font creating contrast with the world. and the clear (I think) message of how on top of the world I want to be with basketball being the platform to get there.  

Pretty much if I can reach my goals of playing basketball at the highest level I’ll be on top of the world, that’s the biggest dream I got. I moved here with that being pretty much my only motivation. Right now the only thing I’m doing is ‘Dream Chasing.’

The slide you are now looking at describes me in many ways. The quote you now see is my favorite quote by a youtuber. He’s funny, sad, serious, and so much more. I chose this quote for a lot of reasons, but the main reason is because this is something that's going to help me throughout my years of high school and college. It has a giant impact on me in a lot of ways. The lion to the right isn’t just my favorite animal, but also because the background is black which means I am a lone lion. Lastly is the meaning of the flag of where I am from. This is something very big in my life and will stick with me forever. The dollar at the top means I have a dollar and a dream. The dollar doesn’t just mean I have a dollar and a dream, it also means that you can do very big things with little things. And also the flag is just to represent. At first I didn’t know what to do at all. I was confused and I did not know what I have to or could put on the slide. So I started to think about what I do everyday and what I like to do and my influences such as the quote by my favorite youtuber.

The assignment was to simplify my Me Magazine into one picture and present it. This task wasn't as easy as it seems. It seems like it, but not really. The fact thing that made everything really difficult part of this whole project was thinking of an idea for my slide, without going overboard. The goal i went for was to incorporate everything i put in my Magazine to one picture, but my problem was i talked about something that was completely different from each other. Till i came to the conclusion that the Mag. was all linked together by one thing. They all tell my emotion in a different way. So that's when i came up with the quote, “The construction of music is like the construction of art; there is no such thing as a first try. But at the end of the day, you express emotion in a different way.” I decided to pick and choose word to make a differnt color so that it sticks out to people reading. At this point i then tried incorporate music and art in one picture. That's when i thought of putting graffiti and a piano in the picture. And all of these show my qualities from my Me Mag.

1. Wording:

• My slide is entitled “The Taste Of The Future”, because I feel that being the next generation in everyone's eyes we all have a say in what we eat and what we contribute to the world, weather that’s good or bad.

• I believe that taste is everything in the world of food and we can’t go wrong by passing down bad examples of food to the next generation.

• The wording was chosen based off of what I have to offer to the world and how I will impact the flavor of food in the world.

• I made sure that my font had a difference in size, to really catch the viewer's eye so that it opens up the viewer's eyes to the actual bigger picture of my ad.

• I also, included a website link that leaves the viewers getting an idea of what they’re missing out on. The website builds a realm of imagination that opens you to what this ad really has to offer.

• Especially the wording of the link itself. The key word KITCHEN gives you almost the idea of this ad being a interest dealing with cooking or food. Which is important, for a viewer to know and just pick up quickly when read.

1. Background:

• My background has a lot of open space with a white background.

• The reason for my background being white is because I wanted a simple contrast with the different color ingredients I have. White suited the different ingredients very well because it’s a plain cover.

• Also, the color is the first thing a person will notice about your ad. so it’s important to decide a color that’s eye catching and contrasts with your wording.

• The empty space in between each ingredients is present for a reason! It shows repetition because some ingredients are smaller than others, which shows the real life effect of the vegetables as it’s real size. I don’t know exactly how big every vegetable is, because it does vary but my estimate of each vegetable size made all the difference in the background space in my ad.

1. Images

• The images of ingredients I choose really have a color contrast that shows what I’m proposing to my viewers.

• Also the bowl on the bottom left corner bleeds off the slide to seem more engaging for the viewers. The ingredients also, bleed off the screen to show that there is vegetables that are being thrown in the bowl almost. But really that’s left up to the viewer’s imagination to conclude.

All information was found from the following sites:

1. http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/08/learning-from-the-design-around-you-ikea.html

2. https://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

3. https://blog.udemy.com/graphic-design-terms/

I made my slide the way it is because I take great pride in my culture and I wanted to make sure my slide had a lot of clarity in that department. My slide might be simple but it’s  clear. I think my pictures on my slide says a lot and sets up my structure. I didn’t want my slide to be to complicated because I feel like the person who is checking it out would be  to overwhelmed. I’m black so I put black in the background and then all the remaining races in the center so the viewer can know my variety of my races. What inspired me was my love for  basketball and my race.  I had a lot of patience and thought into my slide. I thought how can I get my message across? How will people understand my slide the best way possible? Some things I said what shapes me? I kinda eliminated things that really didn’t shape me as the person I am. I made a quote that really I heard all my life the center of attention because it really was a quote that really changed my perspective of life. “Which is do everything with fire.”

  I made the slide that way because I think soccer is a good sport and you can tell what the slide is about from the first look of it. Soccer is the best international sport ever and everyone like it so I thought it would be very interesting to make a slide about it. I really enjoy watching soccer and play it because it’s easy to understand. I made the background black so that the only thing people can focus on is the soccer ball picture and I also made the letters red so that people could understand or notice the description.

Musically talented describes who I am. I play viola and I wanted to express that in this slide so I included that in with the title. For this slide I used the rule of contrast. The rule of contrast is when you a have an ongoing theme and then you have something a different color that is on the other side of the color wheel. For example, if I choose to have a blue background and one thing that is red. The red would stand out from the blue background which would cause a powerful statement. I choose to include this rule because it made my title stand out and it becomes very eye catching.

The first thing I did with my slide was pick a color scheme. I read up on how to choose colors to make my pallet aesthetically pleasing and chose a light gray background, with bold black letters for my name, and a medium blue color for the other information. I chose the font Bree Serif. I not only chose this because it’s  a nice font, but because it is a very bold font and can be read easily. I put my full name in black letters at the top in bold letters so itś the first thing you see. The shape of my slide is two dimensional. Since the hue is mostly gray, the value would be middle gray since it’s not black or white.
I let my picture bleed off the side of the border to show the negative space between the picture and the text. That is how I created my slide.

I made the slide look the way it does because everything on there describes me. On my slide I have that background because It shows my future and how successful I will be. I have books, a quran, a person working, and my picture on there because those are the things that describe me other than my picture. I made my slide look the way it does according to presentation zen, I followed all of the ways I can make a great slide. According to presentation zen it stated that, presentation slides must get noticed, be read/understood, and be remembered. So, I followed these to make my slide look professional. Also, it stated, “ask yourself whether your message can be processed effectively within three seconds. The audience should be able to quickly ascertain the meaning before turning their attention back to the presenter.” Then, I tried to do that to my slide, making sure that the audience should be able to get the meaning in a very short amount of time. Last but not least, presentation zen stated that, we should make our slides visual, it should be one slide/one point, we should make type big, contrast rules, and have a visual theme. There are a couple more, but I took out the ones I used and the ones I thought were important. Presentation zen gave me great ideas that made me make a very simple and professional slide. I knew that following presentation zen will eventually lead to great consequences. Thank you!

I would firstly like to discuss the reasons why the images are placed the way they are. I actually wanted to create a little bit of a depth effect (this is also why I choose the black background). I also took some advice from the Zen website provided to me which included one slide one point, contrast rules, and making it visible. I wanted to make something that makes the viewers take a double look and wonder why I created it and why are there so many odd photos, what’s the meaning?. While I would prefer viewers to use their own creative skills to find out the meaning of the slide, as with most slides the theme is pretty obvious from the first glance.  

         While positioning the images I also considered my theme and decided it would be best to position them in my opinion in the most descriptive and emotional way possible. The reason for the creature in the background that looks like a demon is actually there to symbolize me! Me being extremely antisocial I usually just sit in the back of the class quiet and observing my classmates. Finding out what they’re really about so I can know what i’m getting myself into if I do decide to talk to them. The reason why I put the bee so close is to symbolize my more playful and silly side for if I know you well this is what will be displayed by me most of the time. Now, you’re probably wondering about the door with the curious child looking in it up in the top left corner. That was meant to be far away, as I mentioned above i'm extremely antisocial and even my friends that think they know me actually have no idea what i'm truly about. They usually take my kindness for granted and one day they may see me change and stay that way for as long as we're friends.

          Now, you’re also probably wondering why I choose such odd images to create my slide. As I said in the second paragraph, the bee is there to symbolize my silly personality but also because i’m a huge fan of the subject Entomology. The door with the excessively nosy child as also mentioned in paragraph two is there to represent my true personality which is locked up and will remain in its cell until I find the right people to expose it to. And finally, the reason for the demon are numerous. One being the fact that people never tend to notice me and by my actions/hobbies being different from others really just make things worse. So instead of finding someway to change myself I sit back and see who I believe would make a good associate.

Hello, my name is Shyann Davis. I made my Me magazine based on only a few things but I hope you can see it. I have based it on line, value, color, and rhythm. With line I lined all of my pictures together to it could look pleasing to the eyes and not to everywhere and confusing. With value I kept it simply black and white to be, well simple. But I didn’t just want the same black and white color so I put some lighter blacks and more brighter or dirty whites. The color I wanted was black and white but I also wanted pop to it so I added a bit of color by adding the question mark. And lastly I wanted rhythm, but also wanted to mess with the rhythm. I wanted the rhythm to be the same but have one difference in my pattern.