ART 130: Introduction to Digital Multimedia
Fall 2010
PRESENTATION Project 2 - Quote Slides
DESCRIPTION
Making powerful images is central to telling stories, influencing people and communicating in and for organizations. When you successfully mix images with words, you’re really cooking.
DIRECTIONS
Using Adobe Photoshop, images from online search and/or your own photos if you have them, create a slide to illustrate the quotes below, as in the example from Garr Reynolds (of Presentation Zen fame) above. Pick 6 (six) of the 7 (seven) quotes below, then create 3 (three) slide versions for each quote. In total, you will produce 18 (eighteen) slides.
- “Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent.” Sir Ken Robinson
- “There are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world into two types, and those who do not.” Jeremy Bentham
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- “Hard work beats talent when talent won’t work hard.” VT Engineering
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison
- “Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt
- “Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be. Or if they have any to speak of.” Sir Ken Robinson
When considering how to illustrate a slide, you need to achieve a balance between text and imagery. This is a conceptual skill as much as it is technical. Pick appropriate images, or make them appropriate by manipulating them to get your point across. It is intentional that some of the quotes are open to interpretation. You may decide to influence a reader’s interpretation of a quote through your design.
Your slides should adhere to the following criteria:
- Include the quote itself. Yes, put text in your image
- Make your slides in image-ware (Photoshop), NOT slide-ware (Powerpoint)
- Create your slides as 800 x 600 pixel images with 72ppi resolution
- Save your slides as jpegs
- Make sure you create 3 versions of each slide –Yes, this requires some creative thinking
- You may manipulate parts of (or the entire) image to get your point across
- When finished, place all your images into a single Google Doc, properly titled and easily identifiable as yours (“ART 130: PRESI Project Two - bcapozzi”), and share with me from the Google Docs “Share” menu (bencapozzi@mac.com) just as you do your PLNs
RESOURCES
Consider that “less” is often “more.”
Don’t get caught up in the software attempting something to ambitious. Save that for later in the semester.
There are NUMEROUS guides to using Photoshop, many of them right in the Help menu of the application itself. You can also try PlanetPhotoshop.com or LayersMagazine.com.
If you’re uncertain where to begin, you may want to review Garr Reynolds’ guidelines on slide design below:
RUBRIC
You will be graded on:
Creativity | very creative and original solutions | fairly creative or original solutions | somewhat creative or original solutions | no creativity or original solution at alls |
Criteria | meets all project criteria | meets most project criteria | meets a few project criteria | meets none of the project criteria |
Craftsmanship | superior attention to detail and knowledge of tools and techniques | good attention to detail and knowledge of tools and techniques | poor attention to detail or apparent knowledge of tools and techniques | no attention to detail or apparent knowledge of tools and techniques |