Sublime Powerpoint

Sublime

In this particular project I was trying to portray a band from the 90's in a power point.

This particular project didn't face me with too many challenges due to the fact that I was already pretty comfortable with Power Point. The most difficult probably was just getting the timings right with slides and the music. I think, however, with a lot of practice I finally timed it well.

The only thing new to me in Power Point was actually picking the times you want your pictures and text boxes to come on the screen.

I really enjoyed the fact that I could pick a band that I have always had a great passion for. Even though I knew it would be hard to make the band look very professional (mainly because they aren't from the 2000's and they didn't have any high resolution photos on the internet) I still think I did a decent job making Sublime look good on the Power Point

I was definitely most proud of the music I made and how it relates to the Power Point. It took a long time to make the song sound like it is actually 60 seconds long, and it also took a very long time to make the timing at the ending coincide with the picture. I know in the end that to myself it came out exactly how I wanted to.

If I had more time I probably would have improved the chart because I know it was a little different than the rest of the slides.

• What were you trying to accomplish with your design decisions?
• What challenges and problems did you encountered and how did you solved them?
• What was new for you?
• What did you enjoy most about the project?
• What are you most proud of in relation to this assignment?
• What could you have done had you had more time?

Design Rationale Animation Poem

-In this design, I really wanted to get out the true meaning of the poem in visuals. I wanted each word to stick out in its own unique way and for the animations to come together well with the collage.

-For each word, (or sometimes set of words) I gave them their own unique animation. The word believe was supposed to stick out the most and I made it slowly glow and begin to be on the page. The word 'dreams' on the other hand almost floats into its position, somewhat like an actual dream. Future comes from above, to represent how the future is ahead of you. Each animation corresponds with its the different words. The collage also has its own uniqueness. Each picture is of someone who is very inspirational and has once followed their dreams to do something important in life. (For example: Rosa Parks, Neil Armstrong, Walt Disney) and they are all multiplied so that they mesh with the background. If you look close enough the background is actually a watercolor work of a path, to represent following your path to fulfill your dreams.

-What I found most challenging in this project was figure out how to get the animations to be unique find out how to actually do them.

- To solve this problem I actually found an online tutorial on how to do animations in photoshop. It was helpful and I feel like my font poem will be very unique.

-I'm most proud of how the animations of each font came out in the end. At the beginning of the project I thought it would take forever and it wouldn't even be worth it but I kept at it and eventually made a piece I was proud of.

- If I had more time I definitely would have made a few changes in my collage. Figured out how to do different, unique things with each individuals picture rather than doing the same thing to all of them.

Contact Sheet Rational:

In the first Row, we discovered the different resolutions in photoshop. In the first box, the resolution was fairly low, only 72 DPI. You can tell that it is poor quality because the picture is obviously much more blurry than the others. As I moved up and changed it to 300 dpi, it became more clear, as with the next increase at 600 dpi. Finally the clearest picture was the resolution at 1200 dpi. I learned changing the resolution of pictures can greatly change the quality in any work you do on photoshop.

In the second row, I tested formats/modes. It's clear that the first picture is black and white. It gives the butterfly a very elegant look to it. The next picture is duo tone, where you pick a few colors and it makes almost a hue of these colors and can drastically add effect to the final outcome of a picture. For example the butterfly was changed to a very greyish red orange and almost makes the image appear to be old. In the third box is the normal picture that would appear on the internet in RGB (Red, Green, Blue). It looks very normal and is the general standard for photoshop. Finally in the last picture is CYMK color, which is basically like the secondary colors in photoshop. The butterfly appears very bright and colorful. For the picture of the butterfly it deffinetly adds the most appeal to the eyes.

In the third row on the contact sheet, I played around with Orientation. The box closest to the right is the regular landscape from a picture I retrieved on google. It is rectangle and the lengths on the bottom and top are much larger than that on the sides. In the middle box, I cropped the image to form a perfect square. Each side is the same length. Then in the first box on the left i cropped the image to create a portrait, which is the opposite of the landscape. In this image, the length of the two sides is longer than that of the length of the bottom and top. Each picture has its own unique quality and should be used according to what focus of the picture is.

In the fourth row, I tested Framing out on photoshop. The first picture is obviously on the right and is of a small buliding with a cocola sign to the right. As the pictures move to the left I frame each of them and without changing the size of the image, I keep zooming in until it is eventually only on a large picture of the cocola sign. The images are not tampered with or stretched in any way, they are simply zoomed in on a particular item in the photo.

In the fifth row, I used framing again to play with the content in a photo. I started off with the picture of the windmill on the right. Each picture to the left is framed to be more zoomed in than the last. Finally on the left picture it is so zoomed in that you can't even tell what the image actually is. It looks more like a fence than a windmill.

Finally in the 6th row, I used different filters to create different purposes for each image. I used a picture of the joker from Batman. The First picture (starting from the left I used a neo glow filter and made the color purple becasue the joker was always related to purple and green colors. It give the image a very eerie look and also goes well with the white makeup on his face. The next image I used a water paper filter, which may not be very joker-esqu but it deffinetly was a unique effect to play around with. It makes the picture obviously much more blurry but it also gives in a somewhat glossy effect and makes the colors lighter and brighter too. The next image I used "Ink Outlines" filter. It added darker inky looking lines and deffinetly made every dark feature in the joker stand out even more. The final image was just the one I started out with, or the journalistic view of the joker.