Band PowerPoint feat. Safteysuit

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For this assignment, I was hoping to put together a PowerPoint with transitions that made the slide show fluid and seamless. I also wanted to work to get the music as close to perfect as I could manage when I blended the two tracks.

I chose to do my PowerPoint on the band Safetysuit because it was a band introduced to me by my sister. Since then, Safetysuit has become one of my favorites. I chose to do my project on them because I wanted to introduce new music to the class, and I didn't think my classmates knew who they were prior to my presentation.

The most challenging part of the assignment was cutting and blending the two song tracks on Audacity. I'd had absolutely no experience with the program, so it was a learning process. Another difficult aspect of the assignment was getting the timing of the slide show just right in PowerPoint.To move past these challenges, I simply had to spend time in the lab working with the two programs and doing more than one run-through of the show in order to tweak mistakes.

I am most proud of the photos in my slideshow. I was able to find some really crisp images of the band online, and the color theme I chose for the slide show came from these photos. I think everything blends together really well.

If I'd had more time to work on this assignment, I would have spent more time with Audacity. I might have tried blending more than one track or choosing different tracks for the Powerpoint presentation.

Animated Font Poem

With the animated font poem, I was hoping to achieve something cohesive and effective. Because I am new to the Photoshop program, I was a bit anxious when I started the animation phase of this project. As a result my animation is pretty basic, and my collage is more artistic. I caught on to photo-editing rather quickly, so I was able to go farther with my collage.

I chose to keep the layout of my font poem the same because of time constraints. It would have been difficult to map out the words in an entirely new way (that I was happy with) in a short period of time. Because my quote is by fashion icon, Coco Chanel, I chose to take images of other fashion icons I admire. People, characters, and styles that are unforgettable. Carrie Bradshaw and Audrey Hepburn are some of those featured.

Challenges I faced, besides my initial fear of animation, was laying out the collage so that the photos could be distinct while blending together. To get the desired effect, I worked with the opacity and placement of each layer. Putting one layer before another definitely had an effect. I also used the background tool to crop out parts of images I did not want.

I am most proud of the end product. I was very uncertain going into the animation/collage project and I was surprised to be happy with the outcome. I am especially happy with my collage. The images look good together. Also, the collage is reflective of my personality because I love fashion and old Hollywood.

If I had more time to complete this project, I would have experimented more with animation and color choice. I think that maybe I could have had images from the collage come in one at a time instead of altogether at the end. I also think maybe I should have chosen a different background color. All of these changes and more could have been done if I'd had more time.