Final Soundslide

Speech For Final Soundslide

Of the 44 official years in the NFL’s history, this past decade has provided us with some of the most exciting seasons and super bowls. Dynasties have risen then fallen, and records have been set then broken. Teams have come from nowhere and won their division to surprise everyone.

Most of the reason this decade has been so great is because of all the new talent coming into the league each year. Such amazing athletes make for a better, more exciting game full of more great plays. Coaches have also changed their styles and created new schemes to fool opponents. Every player in the NFL is a great athlete, but some are more than great. They’re legendary.

Here are a few of the reasons why this decade qualifies as a great time for football.

From 2001-2005, the New England patriots were a dynasty, winning the super bowl in ’01, ’03, and ‘04. In 2007, they were the first team to have a perfect regular season since 1972. They were consistently among the best teams in the league year in and year out, these past two seasons, have not been so great for them.

Peyton Manning is another major reason why this era of football is so great. When he retires, he could go down as the greatest quarterback ever. Not only does he have the ring on his finger, but he has the numbers to earn himself at least consideration for MVP every year.

Another such player is Ladanian Tomlinson. He has been no doubt the best running back of these past 10 years. This year, he eclipsed the top 10 in all time rushing yards, and he now ranks 3^rd all time in touchdowns.

Another amazing story is Brett Favre. After playing with the Green Bay Packers for over 15 years, he ends up joining division rival Minnesota Vikings. Near the age of 40, he wasn’t thought to do much, but is now having one of the best seasons of his career.

Now, to look at the current season. For the first time in NFL history, there are two teams undefeated after 12 games – the New Orleans Saints, and the Indianapolis Colts. Both teams have dominated all year, and seem to have great chances at continuing their win streaks into he playoffs where they can potentially meet in the super bowl for an epic showdown.

To talk about the Saints, in case you didn’t see last Monday, they thoroughly dismantled the Patriots on Monday Night Football. The final score was 38-17, and all the New England fans that were talking trash all week suddenly went silent. It was wonderful, and I loved every second of it.

Final Soundslide Rationale

With this Soundslide, I was trying to use images and limited text to get my point to show how the current decade of the NFL is so historic. I did so by bringing up several players and teams that are really a privilege to watch, and using appropriate pictures.

I found the most challenging part to be figuring out how I would get all the information/slides to fit into the 2 minute limit while still getting all my points across. I did so my just cutting down on what was said for each topic and only keeping the really necessary stuff.

I'm most proud of how I was able to do the Soundslide by myself this time. The first one really gave me trouble.

If I had more time, I guess I would have added some effects into the PowerPoint slides and transitions to make it a little more visually appealing.

Bi/Bi Card Rationale

With this assignment I was just trying to re-create the card that I had chosen. I did so by making it look as much like the original as possible.

I think i had the hardest time with getting all the fonts/font sizes correct. It was tough to find ones that were the same as the card's. I got past this obstacle with trial and error until I found the correct font/size.

I'm most proud of how I actually was able to do it. To be honest I didn't think I had a chance of completing this assignment coming into it.

If I had more time, I honestly don't know what I would change. I can't think of anything major I'd like to chance, and at the end of the assignment I was so just happy to be done with it.

Website Rationale

There was no real aim for this assignment, just to make a basic website for my favorite sports team, the New Orleans Saints. I did so by using several pictures and tables to represent the data I chose to display.

The most challenging part of this assignment was figuring out how to use Dreamweaver. I had only used notepad and other basic html programs in the past, so I had to disregard that knowledge since this program is completely different. I went about this problem by getting help from other students and just toying around with the program.

The thing I'm most proud of is that I made a descent looking and functional website about the Saints, because they're awesome.

If I had more time I would change up the headers and footers a bit, maybe get some different fonts in there, and possibly add a "highlights" page with videos to watch.

Brochure Rationale

For the brochure, I just wanted to make an cool looking brochure that gave some basic info about the New Orleans Saints. I did so by using their team colors (black and gold) and including information such as their team roster and 2009 schedule.

I had the most trouble with aligning everything and making all my text fit while still being readable and attractive. I had to constantly change positions and sizes to get it right, but I eventually did.

I'm most proud of how I got the hang of Quark - a program I had never used or even heard of before. I felt like I did a good job considering it was my first time using Quark.

If I had more time, I would decrease the amount of space devoted to the roster on the inside of the brochure, and add something a bit more interesting.

Soundslide Rationale

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With this Soundslide, I was simply taking the PowerPoint I had already made, and making it into a slide show. I did so by using the Soundslide program and combining the previously used slide show pictures and the song from it.

I found the hardest part to be editing the slides to go with certain parts of the song. I got by this problem by a lot of trial and error.

If I had more time I would have tried to edit the slide show so that the slides were a little more even in terms of length, which was hard to do because of the way in which I wanted the slides to transition.