House Style Project Analysis

After viewing our class presentations, I learned a couple of things with regards to what I need to do when designing my end-of-year magazine and presentation.

Firstly, my presentation will look much better if I match the color and design scheme of my presentation with my magazine's house style. I feel this would pair especially well if I focused on the psychological effects of certain font and color choices I made in my magazine, which is something most groups didn't do. Groups which didn't do these two things tended toward less sophisticated analysis and PowerPoint presentations which appeared more amateur. In general, analysis should also be coherent and purposeful. One group's presentation sounded like a schizophrenic had just free-versed a bad poem he wrote and was now elaborating on his own poem like it wasn't word salad but instead something really deep. This is the opposite of what I want to do.

Finally, I noticed it is usually better to focus on the analysis of visual graphic choices and the use of specific words rather than the deconstruction of whole phrases and making subjective interpretations on your magazine images' connotative meanings. The latter is usually more difficult and mostly unnecessary.

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