Blog post: Week 8 Post: What are you making? How are you making it? Why are you making it?


I saw this on YouTube while surfing and thought it was really inspiring!  First of all I really like the song playing in the background, but the message is unique.  I love how they were able to pull types of advice together and draw pictures to resemble them.  They all go together very well and are true for life! Ideas like "Finish what you start" and "Don't be afraid to fail"  are all very applicable in everyone's life. 


My sound slide is going to be based around a year in pictures.  I plan to take a bunch of pictures and add songs that relate well to them (small snip-its, so that a few songs can be heard).  It is a family tradition to have a year in pictures every year which my aunt makes -- we all sit down on Christmas Eve with family and friends to watch it!  It's a great way to remember the events that happen and it is something that will last forever. I'm plan on using imovie, but this is only my idea right now! I want to incorporate ideas from our Presentation Zen book using ideas such as the rule of thirds and how things fall into place ( whether they spin or zoom in at the end on one single point ). :)

Creative Graphing

Blog post: Design an engaging data display/infosthetic. Use any means to create the display: pen and paper; Graph Jam, Word; PowerPoint, Keynote, Pages,Gapminder Desktop.

Needless to say,  when I read this task I was nervous.  Never have I ever... created a graph online.  How was I going to do this?  But thankfully, our teacher provided us with links.  I was able to go to this site and pick exactly what kind of graph I wanted to make -- a venn diagram obviously from the image below.  Then I had to chose the colors I wish to work with, purple and pink seemed to work well together (girly just like myself). Then I had a choice: do I chose data? or do I chose a fun saying? I decided to use a fun quote.  Specifically one by John Lennon.  This is the results:

"Love is the answer, and you that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow."

What a powerful thought.