Power Point Presentation

For this presentation I was hoping to give my audience an introduction to John Mayer by making sure, first and foremost, that it was aesthetically pleasing in terms of pictures and organization. Although the layout was pretty much given to us by the specifications of the assignment, I spent a lot of time searching through google images of pictures that I felt would be the best representation of John Mayer. I thought the first slide would be best presented

with a picture taking up the entire slide. The picture I chose was a little dark and eerie looking, which I felt would be a perfect introduction to a side of john mayer people might not know about, and would be interesting to learn about.

I didn't find many things in this particular aspect of the project challenging. Although I had never made a comparison table on a Power Point presentation before, I found it helpful and interesting to figure out how to create my own.

At first, I struggled with finding the right

font to use for the title of the presentation. I looked online for free font which seemed to have more variety, but they all seemed similar to eachother and nothing stuck out to me as being the right font that I had been looking for. I finally settled on a font from the power point called impact and a cursive-like font for the title of my presentation. I felt these two fonts would bring attention to the contrast and balance of the writing with the picture.

I am most proud of the way the first three slides complement each other, in terms of pictures and graphics, I spent a lot of time trying to find a template that would fit into the theme of telling a story. The scrap book idea gave the impression of a life story which is what I wanted all along.

Poster

For this poster I wanted to capture John Mayer in all his different styles of music. I found four pictures that seemed to demonstrate the many sides of him and used photoshop to blend them all together. I was able to use what I learned from the previous project to make this poster. I used the layer tools and I played around with the hue/saturation tool to make the pictures less bright so that the text would still stick out and catch the audience's attention.

I started off with a semi boring poster that I made with the basics from quark express. I had a regular pink background and two pictures of john mayer and blue text. I was not proud of the first one because it was so basic and I felt didn't catch the attention of the audience I would want to take notice. I decided to add the yellow star with the message "free for students" because I thought it would catch students attention especially because John Mayer tends to appeal to a younger crowd.

I had trouble with using quark express a lot in the beginning of this project. I had never used it before and I wasn't sure how many effects I could do to make my poster look really unique. I decided to use photoshop for the background and that made all the difference.

I am most proud of the background I made on photoshop. I feel that my final draft is significantly different from the first few drafts I made in the beginning of the project. This shows the amount of work and metamorphous the poster went through before it got where it is now.

For the sound slide I decided to use the song "clarity" by John Mayer. Since the song has many different parts to it I wanted to capture every different part and have it flow into the next part. Although I had a lot of trouble making the transitions smooth.

when I opened up the program audacity I could not for the life of me figure out how to cut out just the right part without it sounding odd when it transitioned to the next part of the song. My computer would only let me delete and past together sometimes, so I kept having to resave and open up the program again and it would work. I was getting very frustrated and even tried moving computers to see if it was just the computer I had been using that was flawed. It was still giving me trouble but I made it work and I finally had gathered a minutes worth of the song that I felt had captured all the parts of the song. I saved it as a wav file and could not figure out how to open it using the sound slide program. I was in the computer lab with 9 other kids who couldn't figure it out either. Thats when I realized I had to open it from itunes and convert it to an MP3 file from there and then open it up through the soundslide. I was relieved to have it completed.

I am proud of the fact that I completed this project, and that I learned the basics of creating a sample of a song through the program audacity. I believe this will be helpful in the future and I could do a better job the next time.