Final Portfolio

Process: I gathered all my projects this past semester and combined them into one slideshow through powerpoint and slideshare.net. I went a found textures on texture.com a black textures. I choose to do black because a lot of my pictures have black in them so I felt like it would look good. Also I felt like black looked very classy and professional. Once I added all my pictures, I added a title slide with my name and then a conclusion slide to wrap it all up. I kept the fonts consistent throughout the presentation and used a contrasting font on the front and last slide. I hope you guys like it!

Critique: I was critiqued by Rachel Pearson and April Bethea on the class facebook page this week! They suggested that I possibly make the background lighter since my pictures have black in them. I tried it out but decided to keep most of the slides darker. Also they pointed out that the line was touching my text, the picture for typography was too close to the ground and that I need a contrasting font. I did all of these changes and felt like they really helped the look of my portfolio.

Magazine Spread Final Project

The first thing I did when starting my project was my sketches and then I decided which one I thought would work best with my images and text. After I decided which sketch, I created my shape map on Indesign. I inserted my color scheme, text, and images and formatted it until it looked the way that I wanted it to. I had to work a lot with text wrapping but it finally came out the way that I wanted it to! I hope you guys like it!

Here is my final Project. It wasn’t exactly like my sketches but I really like how it turned out! I kept most of the sketches but arranged how title and smaller images. This project brought so many creative ideas to me and I loved every second of it! This was probably my favorite project of the whole semester. Indesign was a ton of fun to work with and I love how my project turned out!

Critique- I was critiqued by Shay Sookhoo, Jaclyn Stephens, and Shawdee Snow on the Class Facebook Page. They suggested that I change or get rid of the church stamp because it feels weird and out of place. I ended up finding a png of the church stamp which I felt like it made it look much better. Jaclyn suggested that I make both sides white. I tried it and decided that I liked the contrast of the white and yellow. Shawdee also suggest bringing the guy on the rope over but I struggled with alignment with the text and the rope so I wasn’t able to move it over very much but it was a great suggestion!

Fonts: Body Text: Sylfaen- San-Serif, Title: Master of Break-Script.

Images:

http://u.slimg.com/smartertravel/gallery/cover/originals/stm52161ca204fd820130822.jpg

http://texturesofnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/10-24-13-Texture-8.jpg

http://www.clker.com/cliparts/p/d/x/s/2/z/repeller.svg

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+church+of+jesus+christ+of+latter-day+saints+png

Magazine Spread Draft

The first thing I did when starting my project was my sketches and then I decided which one I thought would work best with my images and text. After I decided which sketch, I created my shape map on Indesign. I inserted my color scheme, text, and images and formatted it until it looked the way that I wanted it to. I had to work a lot with text wrapping but it finally came out the way that I wanted it to! I hope you guys like it!

Here is my project so far!

Fonts: Body Text: Sylfaen- San-Serif, Title: Master of Break-Script.

Images:

http://u.slimg.com/smartertravel/gallery/cover/originals/stm52161ca204fd820130822.jpg

http://texturesofnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/10-24-13-Texture-8.jpg

http://www.clker.com/cliparts/p/d/x/s/2/z/repeller.svg

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+church+of+jesus+christ+of+latter-day+saints+png

Web Page Layout

Process: I started with my sketches and worked hard on finding a layout that was asymmetrical but I still wanted two sides of my website! I found a layout that I really liked and then I picked a company! A&W stuck out in my mind and thought it would be fun so I gathered pictures and information and created my shape map. I added my grid and then I added my content and changed all the colors and sizing and typography. My audience is for mainly anyone living in America and anyone that likes A&W or wants more information on their rootbeer and products. My message is to advertise A&W and promote their products as the best!

Critique: I was critiqued by Mary Ann Galli, April Bethea, and Christina Carrick. They gave me advice in changing the color of my heart, trying to find more visual hierarchy, to change the side bar to be less standing out in either size or colors. Also they told me that my twitter symbol was too big. I changed the heart to match the straw color and changed the size of the twitter icon. I all changed the size of the shapes on the right side. I really like how my final project turned out!

Color Scheme: Monochromatic- I used orange with lots of different shades and tints in order to create the brown and light brown color. I also used black as a major color scheme.

Fonts:

Rockwell Condensed Bold (Serif-Modern)

Goudy Old Style (Serif-Oldstyle)

Images:

http://awrestaurants.com/sites/default/files/attachments/2015-float-14oz.png

https://breadetbutter.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/byrons3.jpg

Movie Poster Project

Message/Audience: I love chick flick movies so I decided that I was going to create a love story movie. My audience targets mainly young female adults/teenagers. My poster gives the main idea of my movie and the summary of the story line is at the bottom. My plot is I return home to find love and end up falling for two guys which leads me in the end to stop both relationships in order to find myself. My movie is a feel-good movie that leaves people wanting more of the story at the end of the film.

Critique Report: I was critiqued by Megan Sutherland and Mary Ann Galli on facebook on Tuesday. They suggested that I move the Love over to follow better. Also to get rid of the center alignment in the small text at the bottom. Mary Ann suggested making the red match the orange leaves better. I followed all of their advice by changing the title a little bit and only centering the Coming to Theaters part instead of all of the text. I wasn’t able to find a red color that matched better but I really like the red color I choose because it makes the stop sign and the necklace I am wearing pop out.

Fonts- Love and Trust (Decorative), SF Movie Font (Sans Serif), and Felix Titling (Serif-Oldstyle)

Images:

I took the image of myself and the stop sign.

Background- http://www.socwall.com/images/wallpapers/37762-2560×1600.jpg

 

Perspective of Twelve

For this project, I decided to take 12 pictures of a piano with many different angles. I was very happy with how it turned out. For the first image I took a picture of the piano and a picture of the Yamaha and I blended the pictures together on photoshop in order to make it look like the Yamaha was sitting on top of the piano or in another perspective “play the keys.” I increased the vibrancy and clarity and a few other minor edits. The second image of the pedals, I took a picture of the bottom of the piano texture. and overlapped it on the photo. I chose the darkening setting so it only showed the effect over the pedals. I added a vignette around the edge and a made a few other minor edits. The last picture of the keys, I also added the vignette and decreased the saturation to make it look black and white. All the other photos I edited and put a few blended techniques on and then I designed them in a collage on photoshop.

Critique-

I was critiqued by Emily and Megan. They liked the layout of the collage but suggested that I change the typography or the color of the word piano, so I did that. They also suggested maybe lightening some of the photos since some of them looked really dark next to other ones. Some of the cropping was also a little awkward which I considered and changed to make it look better.

LFC Photography

Outdoor Light

 

Indoor Light

Foreground

Background

Two Thirds

Leading Line

The outdoor photo I went exploring outside my apartment complex and house this adorable cloud. I loved how the light looked on the left side of the photo. The sky is super important in that photo. The indoor photo was my favorite picture. I put the flower by the window and created a great shadow behind it to emphasize the natural light. I edited it a little bit but the way I positioned the flower helped me capture the light I wanted.

The foreground and background took quite a few tries but I finally captured the foreground and background of the nail polish and the nail file in the background.

The church captured my attention and with the landscape and the tree there are distinct lines that follow the 2/3rd’s rule. The church’s steeple being the very center point. The leading line was the hardest photo to capture. I took of picture of my sister, it turned out a little more awkward looking than I wanted but it still captures the concept and the bench lines help lead the composition focus right to her face.

I downloaded lightroom and changed the saturation and exposure on all of the photos to make them pop more. I did a few other edits on each photo based on what I thought each photo needed. I added the watermark and changed the size in order to export them! Super fun project!

Social Media Marketing Project

Company: NFL (National Football League)

Objective: Promote the Super Bowl and give information about scores and recaps

Strategy: Create a Instagram account to share super bowl photos and information. Run a contest where if you like a particular photo and tag a friend in the comments, you enter the chance of winning two VIP tickets to Super Bowl 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I created this project for the NFL in hopes of promoting the Super Bowl and giving people a chance to enter a contest. I choose Instagram because I felt like it would be a good way to get fans involved and also hopefully boost super bowl tickets.  I picked a contest tragedy because it will increase the followers of the account by all the tags on the photo as well as give one of the fans awesome tickets to next year’s game. The overall message I wanted to portray was that the Super Bowl is super exciting. I wanted to give a message that the NFL loves their fans, followers, and supporters as well as the Super Bowl. My main audience is for males but also anyone interested in NFL Football or the Super Bowl.

Process: I used word to create my project. I found pictures I wanted to use and then downloaded specific fonts from NFL websites in order to get the Sport’s feel I wanted with the typography. I designed how I wanted them to look and then placed the typography over top the photo. I then created a post and included hashtags that unified and identified each post. I uploaded the pictures to Instagram and then screenshotted them in order to display them here.

Critique: I received a critique from April Bethae, Shawdee Snow on Tuesday on Facebook! I also received a critique from Sister Petersen! They suggested that I make the pictures less busy and focus more on the words. They suggested I fix some of the alignments and make the words easier to read. They liked my hashtags! Yay! I followed their advice and made solid background behinds the words instead of the words just on the photo. It made it less busy and made it more focused on the words. I also worked on creating a better theme throughout my pictures with the colors and the fonts

Images Sources

http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/1000*667/3425-FBN+BRONCOS+PANTHERS+38.jpg

http://newenglanddairycouncil.fueluptoplay60.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FieldBall032.jpg

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kfsn/images/cms/1172474_1280x720.jpg

https://localtvwjw.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/superbowl.jpg?w=400

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160207224407-40-super-bowl-2016-exlarge-169.jpg

Font: Denver Broncos Custom- Decorative

Font: Sports EA Sports- Decorative

 

7A Magazine Spread Content

For this magazine project, I will be creating a two-page spread of an LDS magazine article in the New Era. For my magazine spread story, I chose to write to an audience of teenagers since my own story took place when I was a teenager. I’m focusing on the people who have fears and the blessings that come when they learn how to face their fears. I wrote about my experience at girls camp a few years go. I told how I was terrified to repel down a tall mountain but Heavenly Father gave me the strength, courage, and comfort I needed to get down the cliff. It relates to my audience because everyone has fears of what is to come but trusting in Heavenly Father can get you through any situation. Here is my story and the images I want to use.

Story: Faith Overcomes Fears

There are not many things in this life that I looked forward to more than summertime. Specifically, the one week during summer where I sang my heart out, grew my testimony, and bonded with all the other girls in my ward. Girl’s Camp was always one of my favorite weeks. My excitement before my third year at Girl’s Camp was no different from the rest except that year I was filled with excitement and fear. I knew it was my year to do something different than the normal hike on Wednesday. All of the third year girls were required to go repelling down a two hundred and fifty feet mountain. I was terrified, to say the least. Before going to camp, I spent a good majority of my time thinking about how I could get myself out of it. I was scared and told myself that there was no way I could do it. Not only were heights one of my biggest fears, I did not have the confidence or trust that the professional who would be belaying me would get me down safely. I was already convinced I could not do it.

I felt like I was waking up to a nightmare as my leaders shook our tent to wake us up on that Wednesday morning. Could I pretend I was sick? I knew that no one would believe me so I got up on that early morning and started getting my stuff together. I was still secretly hoping that once I got there, they would not really make me do it. We arrived at the cliff and I was a million times more scared than I was before. I started walking up the trail with all of my friends and tried to convince myself that it was not really that high. It was really steep walking up and before I had even realized it, I was already almost to the top. The biggest mistake I made was turning around and looking back. I had two options at that point. I either had to face my fears and repel down the cliff or embarrass myself by sliding all the way back down since it was too steep to walk. In that moment, my heart knew what I had to do. I was overcome with comfort and knew that I had to put faith in my Heavenly Father that He would help me make it down safely.

I put on all my ropes and very hesitantly turned around to repel down the mountain. The professional told me to take a step back. At first, I thought he was crazy. Here was this man that I did not know, telling me to take a step backward off of this cliff. The thought again came to my mind, have faith. I stumbled getting down the first part of the mountain but about half way down, I had finally gotten a hang of it. My feet finally touched the ground and I could not contain my joy. I had conquered my fear and nothing felt better than that very moment.

I did not particularly enjoy every second but I was so happy that I was able to overcome my fear. I learned four important things that day. The first thing is that I do not like repelling. The second thing I learned was that Heavenly Father never leaves our side. He was with me the whole way down the mountain. When we need him the most, he is always listening and comforting us. The third thing I learned that day was Heavenly Father really does strengthen us. He turns our weaknesses into strengths. Heavenly Father gave me the strength and courage that I needed to make it down the mountain. Without him, I know I would never have made it. The last thing that I learned that day on the mountain is that you cannot have faith and fear at the same time. Always let your faith overcome your fears.

Sketches

Images

Image Sources:

The first image is my own.

Shoes- http://u.slimg.com/smartertravel/gallery/cover/originals/stm52161ca204fd820130822.jpg

Slide Design Project

Speaker’s Outline

The gospel inspires guidance in Young Adults

• We need to tighten our grip on the rod that leads us back to Him.
• Now is the “day of choosing” for all of us.
• Mission, education, marriage, career, and service in the Church will shape your eternal destiny.

How the Young Adults can stay on the right path

• “fly right” in the gathering storms of the last days.
• By this shall you know, all things … pertaining unto things of righteousness.”
• Pay your tithing and then save as much as you can
• Obtain part-time employment in order to help pay your own way through your education. This will require some sacrifice”

Guidance in meeting the challenges of the world

• None of us marry perfection, we marry potential
• Dating and marriage are the gateways to the final destinations
• Only your faith and prayers will cause you to lift yourself and have the mighty change of heart.
• What choices do I need to make to stay worthy?

Process

I picked my favorite talk from General Conference back in October 2015 given by Elder Robert D. Hales. It is titled “Meeting the Challenges of Today’s World.” After I read my talk, I picked out the important words to me. I then searched different titles and key phrases  in google to find pictures that matched my words. The theme I wanted was the orange sunset silhouette look to my pictures which I think I accomplished pretty well.  My audience is for young adults since that is what my talk applies to. My slides teach young adults about how to face the challenges of the world. I wanted to show the message there are many blessings that come from staying on the Lord’s side in all the challenges thrown our way. I used bright designs, with high contrasting colors, and textured landscapes. I used a complementary color scheme with orange and blue. I sketched out how I wanted to include the text and created a repeating element of a flower and put it all together in Powerpoint!

Critique Report

I got a critique from Sister Peterson in the critique video where she told me to make sure one of my images wasn’t stretched out. She also suggested that I changed the space of my repeating element in some of the slides to make it more visually pleasing. I got a critique from Racheal Pearson and Micheala Belbin on the Comm Class facebook on Wednesday. They suggested that on my slide four, I make the words more bolded or change the color so that they stand out more. I followed most of the advice given, but I couldn’t find a design that I liked of the words to change them to make them stand out more so I left them.

Link to the talk: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/10/meeting-the-challenges-of-todays-world?lang=eng

Fonts: Love & Trust: bold (Decorative)

Links to images: Bike, Airplane, Leaves, Education, Mountain , Temple, Flower, Boat,  Girl Hair