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Reflection on Q2 Media Fluency
What I learned from last class was to make everything big. Make the picture big and the text big. It will make the audience contrast between the two baseball players. Then I learned that you can use the magnifine glass to see if the color of your text is the same color or are they different. I also learned that when you do alpha try not to make any part of your picture that you need disappear. The reason why I change the pics is because the other pic with Cole Hamels is too hard to use alpha to make it disappear. Ms. Hull said "try to use alpha without whipping out anything that you need". So I try to fix that and I fixed it. I also adjust the color in the text to make it match.
Dylan Long Media Fluency Q2
I made the changes (which were taking out all the extra images and effects on those images) because of the feedback Ms Hull gave me. Those images were not needed and were distracting.
All about ME slide
In this Slide I choose these images because I feel they represent me. Such as the Atom image in far right corner. I choose this because i enjoy science. I also choose the Playstation icon because i enjoy video games. In the Middle I wrote "live life to the fullest" that is just one of the mottos i live by. The second one says "Be yourself no matter what". I wrote these mottos because they help get through my daily life. On the right and left corners at the top are my favorite music groups. Also the image on the far right top corner has money and hearts, something I also base my daily life on. The other images are just my favorite stores to shop at when I am at the mall. To top it all off I wrote Science leadership academy in fancy to show how much I love this school.
Shopping slide
The way I made my slide was to make people look. The pictures represent stores I like to shop it and they way I arranged them was in a collage form, I chose this because I liked they way it looked, and it’s very creative. I let some of the pictures over flow off the page, I got the inspiration from seeing the IKEA bill bored. I did not really have a color seam because I just did not think it would look right the background ties it all together.
Betty Louis: Q2 Media Fluency
Of
course just by looking at my slide you obviously can guess that I LOOOOVVEEEE
Christmas! I choose to put on my slide the subject of Christmas because it my
favorite holiday of the year and one of my upcoming events that I am really
excited about. The big words that I put in my slide represent that first few
words that come to mind when I think of Christmas. The main word I put in the
biggest size is family because for me it is the whole point of Christmas. I
used the colors red and green because well as you all know they are the main
colors of Christmas. I also put pictures of me with family/friends from past
Christmas to show you what I look like and to also have a connection to the
words family and love in my slide. In doing this project I have learned many
things such as how to make the slide eye-catching to a point where you just go
“that is just more than great!” You have to make it simple but not to simple
that it seems baby-ish. Just simple enough for each and everyone of the
audience to understand what you are trying to present to them. You must also
make it seem fun and colorful with NOO paragraphs or long bullet points. With
stuff like that people are just going to walk away from your slide or turn the
other way. So if you want your slide or poster to be heard don’t do that. Put
lots of pictures of just one picture that you think and edit it to make it look
visual. Meaning it has be noticed that your eyes can’t stop looking or trailing
around it. Like making the text of your words really big. Use up practically all the space and
balance out the use of objects in that slide. Also “don’t be afraid to bleed”
meaning don’t be scared to allow some of the picture(s) in the slide to appear like
it come off the edge to make it seem like it can’t fit. That’s actually good because
with it looking like it can’t fit makes it seems like its really big and with
things really big allows the slide to be more interesting. All of these things
I did.
Mingxue Zheng: Q2 Media Fluency
During
the process of creating this slide I’ve learned many important concepts about
making an appealing, informative, and awesome slide. From various amount of
slide designing sources, I learned that the color and the art of words can help
people create a professional slide.
The most important aspect of creating decent slides is its attractive color that will captivate the audience. I use a contrast between two opposite colors. Such as black (in the background) and the bright color of the images and words, so the audience will desguised which things on the slide is more important.
The front and size of the text is also important. In my slide the text explains the central concept. Therefore, it needs to be in the biggest size (96pts) and the brightest color so it will not be masked by other images. As in the article, made by Zach Holman, he used text sizes that are as big as 300pts!
Slides should be in a condensed form, so the audience will not get confused of the information I want to present. As I read the article made by Zen, it states that it should be simple,repetitive, and visual. Nobody wants to read a paragraph! Also, in my slide, the positions and the line of the angle of the images guides the audience, what the direction they should look at.
It is important to present a slide that is clear, simple, creative, and visual. The most professional slides are made with images and plenty of empty spaces so it isn’t too overwhelming. So, I used the Rule of thirds and the empty space rule, my slide will be balanced.
There were some of the very helpful websites:
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/08/learning-from-the-design-around-you-ikea.html
Aaron Tang, Q2, Media Fluency
In this slide, I did it visual where people can just look at
the picture and less words. People can see what the picture is going to be
about. You notice that my picture of me is focusing of that. I learned that if
they were too many pictures in one slide, it would be too much for people to
remember what it will be. I am focusing on one topic/ picture of me about
photography. For the past weeks, I have been adding a lot of pictures, but at
the end I only did one picture. I chose my words bigger and bigger. The topic
of me is “photography” and the biggest text would be “Mr. Tang.” I came up with
that because it is about me and I bold it. This will let people read it easier.
I learned that adding small text will let people see harder and the slide will
be boring. The bigger the words are, the better it is. Also, the words of the
colors are blending with my camera and my sweater. It gives people the visual
of repetitions. I have learned that people like to match with the same colors.
For example, many people match colors with their clothes. So matching with
color helps. The background is dark, while the text colors are brighten. The
bright texts would help it shine. I put the cameras on the sides and bleed off
because it gives people overwhelm and more professional. The bleed off pictures
seems cooler. The slide has some empty spaces so my slide which it doesn’t have
to be tacky. Also I chose the colors of the camera to fade away because it is
part of the background and I don’t want the cameras to be as important. I gave
my picture of myself a reflection and it wasn’t fading because it focuses the
topic I am talking about.
Reflection: What I learned from this project is not to add a lot of pictures in one slide. As people driving by billboards, some of them had fewer words and one picture. If there are so many pictures in one slide, it will be too tacky. Adding less word helps because I learn that making slide shows should be simple and it is better. I also learned that I want one picture to be focused instead of other pictures. During the research, I learn that matching with colors with the words and pictures is better. For example, people like to match colors with their outfits. I have nothing to change because I took almost every elements from the website I used to do my slide. I took my critical thinking to make my slide unique. The camera, I fade it; I don't want the camera to be on spotlight. The curve of the camera is facing towards the words so people can read it. I just want people to see the picture on the right. If I can do this project again, I would take all my knowledge from the website I learned from.
Pierce Luck ME- SLIDE
My life has a lot to do with sports so, I put all the sports I ever played in my life in this slide. My color scheme was for all the pictures of the sports to have a little bit of yellow. So I put my font writing really big and in yellow so it would go with the color scheme. In my slide I wrote " reach for the stars , all stars" because when I was younger I wanted to be some type of sports star and back then the sky was the limit. For the shape, I made sure all my pictures were generally the same size, so it won't seem as if one sport was more important then the other. For texture I wanted to make it clear that I love and have played all different types of sports. Also, I want to be some type of sports star so I wanted to make it clear that the sky is the limit.
Lisa Kang, Q2, Media Fluency
I positioned all the pictures and text so that when you look at them, your eyes will follow them around in a circle. I used green, yellow, and red for the colors, but I picked a bright shade of them. I used these colors because they are vibrant can catch your attention. The colors are not that close on the color wheel so that it would be easier to read the words. Another thing I did was made the title really big so that it stands out. I also made the "me" in the title bigger than the rest of the words in the title because the slide is about me. For the two pictures I outlined them in yellow so that they would stand out more. I shadowed all the text and pictures so that it would look like they are popping out of the background. I put the picture of the lion on it because lion dance is apart of my life. Also for the picture of the lion, I chose a picture that has the colors red, green, and yellow in it. I tried to make everything big so that people can see it from far away. I left a lot of empty space and did not have may words on it.
Reflection:
Some changes that I made were make everything bigger and making the background a solid color. I made everything bigger because if the is a big space and you would want people in the back to be able to see it too and it makes things easier for everyone else. I made the background a solid color because at first I had it fading into a white color and that didn't needed to be like that because it did not match with everything else on the slide. Another change I made was take away my name and make the exclamation point green instead of yellow. I took my name away because it was really unnecessary since I had a picture of me already on the slide. When people look at my slide they can already tell that it is about me and there's no point in having my name there. I also make the exclamation point green because there was no reason for it to be yellow and it would just make people look there right away instead of looking at what is important. I learned that a good slide shouldn't have a lot of words and that making everything big. When things are big, they actually have to be super big and not just a little big. I also learned that the way you arrange everything on the slide really matters and that something that is pleasing to look at is when all the texts and pictures make your eyes rotate in a circle. I also learned that having pictures bleed off of the page makes the slide look more interesting instead of having the full picture there, which makes everything look boring.
Some changes that I made were make everything bigger and making the background a solid color. I made everything bigger because if the is a big space and you would want people in the back to be able to see it too and it makes things easier for everyone else. I made the background a solid color because at first I had it fading into a white color and that didn't needed to be like that because it did not match with everything else on the slide. Another change I made was take away my name and make the exclamation point green instead of yellow. I took my name away because it was really unnecessary since I had a picture of me already on the slide. When people look at my slide they can already tell that it is about me and there's no point in having my name there. I also make the exclamation point green because there was no reason for it to be yellow and it would just make people look there right away instead of looking at what is important. I learned that a good slide shouldn't have a lot of words and that making everything big. When things are big, they actually have to be super big and not just a little big. I also learned that the way you arrange everything on the slide really matters and that something that is pleasing to look at is when all the texts and pictures make your eyes rotate in a circle. I also learned that having pictures bleed off of the page makes the slide look more interesting instead of having the full picture there, which makes everything look boring.
Dylan Long - Q2 Media Fluency
Dylan Long
11/23/11
Tech Script
In this slide, I used what I learned from the articles provided by Ms Hull. I learned to keep it simple, don’t use anything that is distracting the audience from the topic, and get the point across rather quickly. I think I did a pretty good job with using that knowledge and applying to my slide. I posted my name, lots of pictures of things that describe me and that I do, and my favorite quote.
