Poster Design Rationale

While creating the poster I was trying to promote my event while emphasizing the disco theme, with a slightly humorous approach. I did so by adding the text "Bell Bottoms!" to the poster, to go along with "Disco!" and "Open Bar!" to grab the viewers attention, make them laugh, and check out what the event has to offer.

I found the most challenging aspect of this assignment to be finding the right spots and sizes for the texts and picture. I found it difficult to include everything I wanted to say/show and then organize it in a way that was appealing. I just kind of fooled around with the texts, tried organizing them in different ways until I found something that was spacious and attractive.

There's not really one key thing I'm the most proud of, I'm just happy with the way my poster turned out. I believe I effectively displayed my event, held the disco theme, and added a bit of humor. I know disco isn't popular anymore, but I feel my poster would still catch several peoples' eyes and at least make them laugh - making them remember it.

If I had more time, I think the one thing I would have done would be to give a more attractive background, or maybe just add a few minor graphics to the poster itself. I'm happy with how it looks, but a non-solid black background could have done some good.

PowerPoint Design Rationale

In this portion of my project, I wanted to create an entertaining PowerPoint presentation on the Bee Gees and their prominence in the disco era. I chose a song that I knew most people would recognize, whether they knew it was by the Bee Gees or not, so they would be able to relate to it more.

I found the hardest part of this assignment, by far, was to time the transition of the slides, pictures, and text with the music being played. I overcame these challenges by frequently adjusting the transitions so that they went accordingly with the correct part of the song.

The thing I'm most proud of from this assignment is how I was able to time the slides and effects to go with the rhythm of the song. It took a lot of trial and error, but I was able to figure out the timing and use the transitions effectively.

If I had more time, the one thing I'd do would be to cut down a little bit of the information on a couple slides, so there would be a few extra seconds to read each slide. I had to keep it like it was so the timing with the music would work, making a few of the slide transitions come a little too soon.