Final Project

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Final Project Design Rationale

This is the last ever project for this class!! My final presentation is a slideshow on my passion for swimming.

• My first decision was to decide what topic I wanted to do. This was hard for me because I did not know what passion of mine that I would be willing to discuss. Eventually, with time and projects from other classes coming closer together, I decided to do swimming because it was simple and something I could manage in a short time.

The storyboard for the project and my written script were easy, but finding the pictures was hard. I had to find suitable images that went with the script. They had to be specific pictures from flickr.com or other reliable websites and they had to be JPEG files without having a tag to the site I recieved the pictures from. Eventually, I found my pictures and placed them in the order I wanted.

• What I am most proud of is the music that plays in the background. In the beginning, I used a natural sound called "Ocean Waves." I downloaded the sound effect from FreeLoops.com into Audacity and cut 30 seconds of it. When "Ocean Waves" are played, there are 3 quotes that people can read that is related to water and swimming. After 30 seconds of this sound, I used a combination of an instrumental song and narration for the rest of the presentation. The song I used was called "The Water Song" by Medwyn Goodall. It is an instrumental song that reflects the cool and calmness of water. Over this song, I used the narration that I made. It took me a couple of tries, but I had a take that allowed the pictures to be seen, the music can be heard in the background, and the narration isn't rushed.

The biggest problem that I had in the entire project was uploading it onto my blog. I followed the instructions that I was given to upload my presentation on filezilla or webng.com, but I could not neither connect to the server through filezilla nor display the slideshow on webng.com. On my PC and on the Mac computer, I could not get the slideshow from either source. Instead, I used Slideshare.com to get my presentation onto my blog because I knew how to do it from before and I knew I could do it on either a PC or a Mac. My presentation does contain music and the transitions are automatic, so that is a good thing. All of my information on this entire project is in the North Campus Folder on the Mac computers.

• If I did anything differently, I would do something different with the background of the slideshow. I think the background is too similar and the continuance does not make the presentation stand out. I would also change the title of the presentation. I accidently left the storyboard in the title where I should have removed it.

BiBi Card

In Design Version Side 1

Quark Version Side 1

Quark Version Side 2

BiBi Card Design Rationale

Out of all of the projects, the BiBi Card was the most stressful. This project was a BiBi card on a Cosmopolitan magazine October 2009 issue.

• One of the big problems that I had was on Side 2, I had to draw all of the lines. It was annoying! I had to zoom in to 200% and draw 22 big lines and 30 little lines. I just copied one of each and pasted them into the next pattern that was on the card. I hated doing it so much, but the lines were important to put on the card.

Another problem I had was getting the shadow behind the Cosmopolitan picture with Quark. At first, I uploaded the picture like I did with the Nightwish poster. However, when I tried to use the shadow, I kept shadowing the entire card. Instead, I dragged in the picture from the desktop right into Quark. I was then able to get the shadow just behind the picture alone.

• Out of the three cards that I did, I believe that the one I did in InDesign was the easiest. I got all of the things that I wanted onto the card with no problems. However, when I printed out the cards, I prefered the look of the Quark version over the look of the InDesign version because the InDesign version had a neon yellow background and I liked the basic yellow background on the Quark version better.

I do not know why the Quark Side 2 Card is smaller than the other Sides on the Blog, but I can assure you that they are all the same size: 5 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide.

• If I did anything differently, I would put the boxes in the Quark Version of Side 1 Card. I accidently forgot to put them in when I placed them on my blog.