Horses

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When I began to make my final project I decided that the main message I wanted to construct my project around was horses and how helpful they are to children while growing up. I decided to in addition focus on horses helping children with attention deficit disorder and autism. When selecting images I wanted to show how happy children are when working with horses and show how people and horses can work together.
What I found challenging about this project was to edit my music and voice over. It was a lot of trial and error to get the mix of music I needed. I spent a lot of time mixing the 30 second clips to hide the editing. I also tried many different combinations of volume on all the tracks that I used so you could clearly hear everything.
One problem that I ran into was that a lot of the sound clips of horses neighing or running were in the wrong frequency so when I put them into audacity track they were too quick and didn't sound like much of anything. To fix this problem we recorded the sound on the computer to make sure it was at the same speed as the others so that I sounded right with the other clips.
In this project I am most proud of the slides as a whole. I think that once everything came together they worked really well. I was able to time the images right and they helped bring clarity to the narration. I think the images also worked with the music and theme really well to make one whole meaningful product.
If I had more time to work on this project I would have done two different songs. I like the song that I used but if I had more time I would have found another song to finish the presentation with after the horse running sound. I think it is still good with one song but two would have been more entertaining.

When creating the bind in-blow in cards I had simply to try and recreate the original card that I found in Cosmopolitan magazine. I found this project very challenging. The first problems that I ran into was how to make a triangle. In the card their is a red triangle in the bottom left side. I could not figure out how to make a triangle in either program. I finally gave up trying to use the cut tools in Quark and Indesign and moved on to Photoshop. In photo shop I made a red square the size I needed. Then I rotated the square45 degrees and cropped one half out to make a square. I then needed to use then magic eraser tool before I could save it as a jpg and insert it into my documents.
This is where I ran into another problem. In Quark when I inserted the triangle it would only be imported the size that I made the box around the area so that took some work to get the size as close as possible. Once I finished the project I went to open the document in the maclab for class and the program wouldn't open the document with the triangle. Mt solution was to simply redo the whole experience again.
Because I had so many struggles this would have to be my least favorite project. If I had more time there are many things that I would improve on. In the triangle there was text with a dropped shadow. Unfortunately, I could not make my text look the same. In Quark all of my images are blurry, If I had more time I would have found a way to make them more clear. Finally I would have taken more time to size the cards when I was printing them. They are all different sizes but when I created the documents they were all the same.
In this project I was most proud of the main text that started with "Limited-time". I think that the text was accurate and looked most like the original. I also found this section the easiest to complete.

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