Six Flags Brochure

Six Flags Brochure Design Rationale

My brochure is based on the amusement park Six Flags New England.

What I liked most about my brochure were the colors and fonts that I used. The background colors I used were yellow and light bue because they were bright and cheery for the amusement park. I used a gradient feather tool on both colors so that when they joined together, there would be white in the middle. For the fonts, I used "Futura" size 36 for the headings and "Hobo Std" size 18 for the subtext. I wanted the readers to feel a sense of fun when they read the brochure because Six Flags is a fun place to go to.

• What I found most difficult about my brochure was knowing what to use as information. I knew for certain what to do with the cover and what to say about each of the different activities within the park. However, I did not know what to do for the remaning two panels. After much thinking, I settled with a list of summere events on one panel and a basic map on the other panel. I was contemplating whether to actually list the directions with the map, but I found out that there were many ways to get to Six Flags New England and there would not be enough room to list them all.

For the pictures used in the brochure, I sized them to fit in the panels and rotated them to give the picture an edge. If necessary, I took the pictures in Photoshop first and edited them with the magic eraser or size change before I placed them onto the brochure. I also applied a shadow technique on all of the pictures I used to make them stand out to the readers.

• The problem I encountered the most was finidng the right font for the brochure. At first I used "Palacino" for the headings and "Myriad Pro" for the subtext. However, I did not like the result of it, and all together, the brochure did not flow well with the fonts. I looked around the different fonts until I found the fonts that that I used ("Futura" and "Hobo Std").

Nightwish Concert Poster

Concert Poster Design Rationale

For my poster, I did it on the band Nightwish.

What I liked most about my poster was that my image was large and blended with the background. I used Photoshop to drag my picture in and used the magic eraser to get rid everything except the band. Although there are a few spots that disappeared on the band members, I think the picture turned out good.

• However, I do not think this poster was the best assignment that I did. I thought the background was boring and did not stand out. Yes, my background is colorful and shows the styles of black and purple, but nothing stood out on the poster. I could not find a wayto make my poster stand out.

What I found difficult was the placement. I decided to use a "Z" style, but at first, everything ended up in the middle. Then I moved some things around, but I was told that some of my placements should stand out more and the important information should be at the top. In the end, I obtained a "Z" style format for my poster starting with the name of the band and ending with ticket information.

• Overall, this is not the best assignment that I had done. I am upset with the background, the lack of more than two colors, and the sight of more words than pictures, There are many things that I wish I could have done, but I did not have the time to do it and I do not know what else I could have done.

Music Powerpoint

Nightwish With Music

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Music Powerpoint Design Rationale

My Music Powerpoint is based on the band Nightwish.

What I liked most in my Powerpoint was the background. The purple and little white went well with the band's mood and music style and I loved the color. The white words also went well with the background as well as the light purple that changed the white words after the respected time frame. I also liked the transitions that entered the pictures and words. They were really cool and made the Powerpoint flow. The transition of hiding the phrase after reading it went well because the white text changed to light purple and matched my background. It was still readable but did not command the full attention.

• I also liked the music that I edited. I took me only 1 hour (or less) to completely make a 1 minute song out of a 4 minute song. My song, "Amaranth," had mostly instrumental in the beginning and lyrics afterwards. So I took the beginning of the song and the absolute end of the song to make it 1 minute. My band is not only about the lyrics, but it is also about the music. That is one of the reasons why I like Nightwish.

What I found difficult with my Powerpoint was the hyperlink. I never knew how to do a hyperlink. I had tried many ways to make my sources into a hyperlink, but I could not find a way. On the last slide, I used my pictures and the sources I used as sources.

• Besides my hyperlinks, I found that finding interesting information for my band was hard because I did not know what was interesting to college students. Sure I could find a lot of information on my band, but it was hard to identify which information was good or bad. In the end, I picked the information that I thought was good and used it in the presentation. As the due date became closer, I did not care what other people thought about what they read.
  

Font Poem Animation Design Rationale

**Sorry that I do not have the actual animation up yet. The movie takes long to upload.**

In this project, I hoped to make a collage that had some relations to what the font poem said and meant. In my opinion, it was hard for me to find decent pictures to use for the font poem because some of the words did not have a visionary picture, and I had to go what I felt was right.

I have decided to do the collage with various landscapes. What I did was placed them first where I wanted them, and then I used the blur tool on the left side to get rid of the straight lines. I wanted the pictures to somewhat come together. Out of all of the pictures, there were three that involved water and the ocean.

• One picture was of the tides, and that picture actually went with the word "tides" in the font poem. I placed this picture near the area where the word "tides" is said to give it a natural feeling.
• Another picture was the entire background of the collage: a sunset purple color of the ocean at the foot of a valley of mountains. I chose this picture because I liked the color of the sky and how it reflected on the ocean. I thought this picture also gave some sort of a message which said that there is always some light in darkness. In my mind, light can parrallel happiness and darkness can parrallel sadness, and the topic of the font poem was about happiness, so I put it in.
• The final ocean picture was the opposite: a scene of the ocean at sunrise. It was a beautiful color of blue, that showed light breaking through the darkness in the distance, which gave the same meaning with the picture above. I placed this picture in the upper right corner near the word "Happiness" to show that happiness can break through sadness.

There were three other pictures that I felt contributed to the font poem with a similar meaning to the landscape ocean pictures I talked about before.

• The first picture was of a white star in a red background. This was similar to the light = happiness thought that I used the ocean pictures. I placed the picture in the upper left corner near the word "Happiness" which is similar to what I did for the sunrise ocean picture.
• The second was of light breaking through the clouds. Again, I believed that the light resembled happiness. Because the word "IT" refered to the word "Happiness" in the font poem, I placed the the picture near the word "IT" above the picture of the tides.
• The third picture was of a brain. This is the only picture that is not of a landscape and does not soley focus on the light = happiness idea. The main reason I used this picture was that at the end of the font poem, it described that happiness depends on the mind, so I used a picture of the mind to get that point across. The lights in the picture also demonstates the sparks of happiness that a person can obtain by using the mind. I placed this picture at the lower right corner where the word "MIND" is located.

What I found most challenging out of the entire project was getting the collage in its natural color behind the font poem. I easily merged the collage together and copyed it into the font poem. After I pasted the collage in, I moved the collage layer to the bottom of the order so that the words were over the collage. The problem was that after I moved the collage, the coloring were altered by the hues and saturation effects of the font poem. In the end, I had to remove the hue and saturation from the font poem and the coloring of the collage was normal.

When I finally got the collage behind the font poem, I realized that I had to change the colors of some of the words of the font poem. After I found out how to fix the collage coloring, I went back to the font poem and altered the colors of the words. Normally, I had the colors the way they were because of the hues and saturation effects, but now that they were removed, I could revert the words back to the colors I intended on using. However, I had to change some of the words to white or black so that they can be read over the collage.

I am most proud of how the animation time frame played out. I wanted people to easily read the font poem. I showed the entire font poem in a certain order so people can read the font poem in the following way.

• The font poem without the collage for 2 seconds
• The word "Happiness" for 5 seconds
• The phrase "is NOT a" for 5 seconds
• The word "MATTER" for 2 seconds
• The word "of" for 2 seconds
• The word "EVENTS" for 5 seconds
• The phrase "IT DEPENDS" for 5 seconds
• The word "UPON" for 2 seconds
• The word "the" for 2 seconds
• The word "TIDES" for 2 seconds
• The word "of" for 2 seconds
• The word "the" for 2 seconds
• The word "MIND" for 5 seconds
• The font poem with the collage for 5 seconds

If I had more time on this project, I would have edited the size of the background collage. When I started the project, my font poem was the required 640 x 480 pixels/inches. However, when I did my collage, the width size was different and smaller than I expected. Because of the time shortage, I was not able to fix the size to 640 x 480 and made the animation with the different width size. From my view, I think that was the only issue I had a problem with, and I did not have an idea to do something new.