Poster

For the background, I took a photo off of Google, resized it, and added the dry brush filter. I dragged it into Quark and resized it again as an image. I then added two back rectangular boxes to the poster to fill out the rest of the background. I added AAchen Bold font using the textbox for the Nickelback title and used blue font because that style is most often related to this band. In font styles, I chose a gray shadow for the Nickelback title. I used Charlemagne font for the Live word and tilted the word while the text box was selected. For the two bottom texboxes I used bright blue Apple Casual font to grab the reader's attention. I also tilted the texboxes and added a 4-point solid frame. The StubHub icon was taken from Google, edited in Photoshop, and transferred to Quark through image import. I also placed a cutout filtered photoshop stage picture in Quark and then changed the opacity in Quark.

The difference of layers between Quark and Photoshop was confusing and sometimes made it difficult to add images. I have never used Quark before, which made it extremely hard because I basically had no idea what I was doing. I had the most trouble with importing images into Quark. Sometimes when I put images on my poster, they would cut out a spot on my poster or wouldn't move beyond a certain point. I'm most proud of my filtered Nickelback photo.

PowerPoint

For the first slide, I began by adding effects and styles to the title of the slide. I used an attention grabbing font from WordArt and then added a reflection effect and a scroll in effect, both of which I am most proud of. I placed the band picture as the background, but had to crop it and resize it many times so that font didn't cover the image. I used the wipe right transition on slow in every slide. The second slide I had some difficulties with because I could not figure out the timing. I used a standard, legible font and scattered the phrases surrounding an artistic filtered photoshopped image with a border, which I am most proud of. I then timed each phrase to fade in and out individually and to then come in at the same time at the end by using the custom animation. For the next slide, I had to make the main album image more transparent so that the song names could be read. I then added in a few more album covers and transformed then into grayscale so as not to take attention away from the main album cover. I surrounded all the albums with borders. The next slide was the most difficult to create. I used a seperate table for each row so that I could have each row fade in and out individually. For the last slide, I faded out the background.

To create music with my slide, I took two .m4a song files from my computer and transferred them into iTunes on the lab computer. I then transformed each song into a .wav file using the advanced tab and dragged the songs into Audacity. I took 30 seconds from each song and meshed them together. I selected insert sound from file in PowerPoint.

Animated Post Card

For the corpse collage, I mixed pictures of myself and pictures from the chapter 9 exercise folder together. I dragged each photo into Photoshop and transformed them into the right sizes using the free transform tool. I placed all the pictures on one document and selected hue/saturation. I clicked the colorize option and chose a pink hue because my font poem is about roses and a medium saturation. I did have difficulty creating the hue/saturation at first because I didn't realize I had to check the colorize option, which was responsible for the pink wash. I then selected the layer of each body part and varied the opacity in the layer toolbar so that it looked as though the different body parts blended together, but no so much that the overlapping couldn't be seen. I blended in a rose background from Google to represent my font poem.

For the animated font poem, I simply selected animation from the window toolbar. I then turned all the eyes off on all layers except the background layers. I selected the first animation slide and then turned the first word layer eye on. I selected duplicate selected frames and then turned the next word layer eye on in addition to the first and so on. After I was finished with that, I fooled around with the amount of seconds in between each word and developed my animated poem.

To transfer my font poem to my collage, I had to save my corpse as a jpeg and resize my corpse to that of the animated font poem by clicking constrain proportions. I then selected the corpse, copied, and pasted it onto the font poem animation.