Monday, March 29, 2010

Beatles Powerpoint



• What were you trying to accomplish with your design decisions?

I wanted to create an exiting powerpoint that went with the feeling of the beatles music. I wanted to have a bright color pallet, but at the same time nothing too crazy, because thats how the beatles music was.


• What challenges and problems did you encountered and how did you solved them?

On the facts slide, dimming the previous fact was not working at first. I don't know if it was a problem with powerpoint software, or if i had a setting on the wrong thing. After working at it for a bit and getting frusterated, i started from scratch and that seemed to work! I also got lots of feedback from the class on fonts and font colors which helped on my final draft. I had never used audacity, so that became frusterating but after playing around for a while i got it down pat!

• What was new for you?

Basically everything was new for me! I have used powerpoint before, but hadn't used it for anything intrecate. I had never used the dimming effect, the opacity setting, or any mp3's in powerpoint.

• What did you enjoy most about the project?

The end product was a great feeling of success. Its nice to have music in the background. It made the slides a lot more exisiting. I enjoyed just learned about new aspects of powerpoint so now i can use it in other classes and impress everyone:).

• What are you most proud of in relation to this assignment?

I am proud of the end result. I am glad i got the slides to go along perfectly with my fade in and fade out of my mp3. It's nice that i learned how to use audacity basically on my own and dealt with my challenged without asking anyone else for help.

• What could you have done had you had more time?

If i had more time, i probably just would have gone over the slides to see what i could have changed to make it even better. Maybe i would have changed some of the colors to go along better, and looked deeper into fonts.

Monday, March 8, 2010