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.