Poster Creation.

Over the last three years my mother has run and directed the local pantomime club and I have had to make multiple posters for both the audition and actual show.
A selection of these posters can be seen below:

All the posters were intended to provide their audience with information about an event whilst being eye catching and visually stimulating in order to draw them in when it was pinned to notice boards and around the local area.
They were all created using publisher and then converted in to a JPEG format to be sent to both the printers and sign makers. When creating the posters I wanted the event to look fun and inviting to all ages, using visual clues about the story line e.g. the mirror and apple for the story of snow white and the hat and pirate ship for peter pan. This idea was developed through trial and error, I had made many different variations of the first poster (snow white) and decided that the one that did not have photographs of characters on provided the audience with a clue as to what the story included whilst looking simplistic and colourful was the most eye catching. Once the peter pan poster was published I was emailed on multiple occasions with requests to do poster designs for other local club, which due to other working and university commitments I was unable to fulfil, although the feedback and praise received for my work was greatly appreciated. When making posters for future shows I followed a similar format due to the outstanding feedback I was given.

Photo Merging using Enlighten.

Enlighten is an application that allows you to edit photographs by manipulating and merging them together.
I started with the two images below:

My aim was to merge these two images together to make my puppy look almost ghost like within the the foggy tree tops. I went to the merging tool and selected the photos I wanted to layer, choosing their colourings so that they would look as seamless as possible when the merge was complete.

I then set about erasing the areas of the top image (puppy) that I did not want to be present.

The outcome:

 

I was happy with the outcome, other than the bottom right hand corner and the shape and size of the image, as it would not be compatible with some social media formats. I then cropped the image to make it the desired size, and remove the bit I am not happy with.

The end result:

 



 

Prezi presentations.

Prezi is an online resource that allows you to create interactive and creative presentation that take their audience on a journey. Prior to this practice presentation I had never used prezi before, although I found it relatively easy to use and the outcome to be far higher quality than if I had made it using software such as Microsoft PowerPoint. In future presenting I will definitely be using this software again.
To begin this practice presentation I chose one of the ready made templates, although it is also possible to create your own templates that you can save for other presentations in the future (I did give this a try by could not find anything that I wanted to use as my over all theme). I chose the world map template, adding both a title and my name:

 

As this was a premade template all the text boxes and the path that the presentation too was already set, although I changed its path so that the presentation would go from right to left rather than the original left to right, mainly just to test out what the software could do and  how much control I had over the journey the presentation took.

Following this I set about filling in the interest areas:


 

As this presentation was simply to test my prezi abilities and test out the different ways in which it can be used I simply added some facts about each of the areas. Upon reflection i think that this software could be a valuable resource for all teachers or presenting professionals as it creates a mood board style presentation that can be travelled around rather than the standard flick through of slides. 

If I was to make another Prezi presentation i think that i would create my own original template that relates to the particular topic being presented, as it would make this process more creative and individual. 

Blogs.

Evidently from the format of this E-portfolio, I am able to create and design a blog. This particular blog was created for the soul purpose of displaying and commenting on my own creativity with technology. I chose the theme image and colours to represent this purpose and made the blog original by not using one of the current blogger templates.
Alongside this blog I actually have my own personal blog where I upload my thoughts and opinions about elements of day to day life, that I have created using the same layout but a very different theme due to the very different purpose.
As you can see from the screen shot below:

 

Both the name of the blog and theme represent a very different purpose. This blog is used as more of a scrap book and is very informal in both the language used and the over all doodle design. My other blog is also much more public than this one, currently having over 1200 views since its creation. With this only having 20 since going live in January 2016.



Video presentations.

During the course of this academic year i had to create a video presentation for one of my other modules.
I began by creating a standard PowerPoint presentation that contained all the information required for the assignment, ensuring that I had both a space for the video to be imported as well as making sure that the theme was consistent throughout.
Below is an image of the PowerPoint creating process:

 



After creating the PowerPoint I downloaded a software program call Camtasia. It allows you to video and voice record both yourself presenting and whatever is currently on the computer screen, whilst also facilitating the editing of each project.
Sadly, my trial of this software has expired which means that I am un able to show this process via screenshots but the end result was an MP4 video that incorporated both my PowerPoint presentation, as well as the ability to see and hear me present the information on each slide.
This is demonstrated below:

Augmented Reality Aura.

During a recent workshop we learnt how to create an Aura or augmented reality action.
The aura I helped to create (within a group of 3) was aimed at teaching primary children about the letter E. We began by creating a "start here" aura that included a video of the instructions for the treasure hunt section of the activity.
Below is a photo of the video instructions being recorded:

We then moved on to finding animations of objects or animals beginning with the letter E that would be added to the aura's for the children to find and attempt to spell.

After all our animations (Elephant, Eyeball and Earth) were chosen we searched for trigger images of the letter E around the building. My job as part of the group was to complete one of the 3 aura's we'd created, selecting the animation we had chosen and adding it too the trigger image, before naming the aura.

Below is picture evidence of this process:



Once this process was complete, the aura I created worked and was able to be discovered when the device was hovered over the correct area. A problem we did encounter with this trigger image was that as the light reflected off the lettering on the sign it would make it harder to discover the aura.

Below is an image of the working aura:

Photo Editing.

Within today's technological world there are many ways to edit photographs, the most common professional editing program is Photoshop, whilst many also use social media applications such as Instagram.

 

 

Above is an image I have edited using an application called logic. It is photo's that I have taken whilst on a holiday to Lapland during Christmas 2014, that have been cropped and arranged together into a collage.

 

Audience and Purpose-

The audience for this image was my own friends and family, as it was to be uploaded to my own personal social media accounts. Its primary purpose was to serve as a way to reflect and  look back at the previous years adventure.



Analysis-
In my opinion this image fulfils its intended purpose and is appropriate for the target audience. The main consideration when creating this image was with the colours of each image and laying them out in order to have a balance of light and dark rather than blocks of dark/ light colours. If I was to recreate this image I think that making the image black and white or greyscale and having a pop of colour within the boarder, could make this image more eye catching and would be a bigger contrast to the original images.