Cobra Starship Powerpoint

Cobrastarship

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In my design, I was hoping to achieve a final PowerPoint presentation that was appealing to my audience but also creative in the way I presented the band Cobra Starship. I was hoping that the music I chose would help my viewer get a sense of what kind of band they were. I was also glad that by doing this project I got to expand my knowledge of PowerPoint because I feel so much more knowledgeable with the program.

In creating my PowerPoint presentation, I had to make various decisions that would affect the outcome of my project. One of the things that I had to decide was what music I would be putting in my PowerPoint. Since Cobra Starship isn’t really that popular I chose to use songs that I thought people would know better than the other ones. I also had to decide which pictures worked best for the slides. I wanted to put pictures on my third slide with the chart but in the end I decided it looked better to do one picture as the background and have the picture be dimed.

The most challenging thing of the whole project was the music portion. When we first used audacity I was having trouble putting the music together because I had gotten the music file from Limewire and it was bad. I solved this problem by having to download the song again so at that point I changed the song to a different one that I thought would be better. This new file was better and it worked when I combined the two songs together. Once the music was done, I had to make sure the music fit with the PowerPoint and ended at the right time. This part was hard because I had to slow things down or speed animations up to make the music sound right and look right with the slides.

I think I am most proud of the project as a whole. I was proud of myself that I could learn how to use a different version of Microsoft PowerPoint that had so many different features! I enjoyed it though because it gave you a lot of fonts and animations to choose from. I was happy that my project came out half way decent and my music eventually worked. Since we had just learned Photoshop it was good to be able to go back to that program and fix my photos.

If I had more time I would have worked on the music portion more. Because I had trouble with the music files in the beginning I wasted a lot of time on that, therefore my music wasn’t as good as it could have been. I would have really spent time on it and made it sound really creative. I probably would have also been more creative with the way I set up the slides. Once I spend more time on something I start to find more creative ways of doing things.

Font Poem slide show

I was hoping to achieve an end product that I felt was good considering I had never made a slide show movie before. I wanted it to look good and have the collage pictures represent my font poem and look creative. I think by doing what I did to the collage background it looks really good and aesthetically pleasing.

Some of the decisions I had to make when creating the movie was if I wanted to put my font poem words on my collage or not, or what kind of pictures I would put into my collage. I knew I wanted to use photos that were clouds or sunsets; pictures that would represent words such as imagination and dreams. I had to decide if I wanted the collage to just be pictures or have color to it. I choose to have my collage have a white transparent color over the collage that was light enough that you can still see the pictures of the collage.

Choosing the pictures for my collage was challenging because I wanted to choose ones that best represented my poem. One problem I encountered was trying to put all of the words from my font poem onto the collage. For some reason one of my words were invisible so it wouldn’t show up when I tried to put it over the collage. This created a problem for me so I decided to not put any words on the collage.

It was also difficult trying to upload the movie because it was a new program to work with. By the end of the class we did not have our movie posted but we all had accomplished one step of the process. It taught us how patient we have to be when learning something new that we might not get right away.

I am proud because I am expanding my Photoshop knowledge and learning new skills on the program. I don’t think my font poem movie came out horrible and I’m happy how it came out. I knew I wanted some of the pictures to represent the words in my poem and I think I did a good job at creating that. If I had more time then I might have positioned my collage photos in a more creative way.