Multimedia Skill

PAAS-206

Last year I took PAAS206 as my elective course. The course is mainly about comics of Asia. In the middle of the term, I presented a Japanese comic named Ajin Demi-Human. Here is my original ppt. When I am doing this assignment, I realized that I should take a look at it and think of what I can do better to increase readers’ interest when reading it. I tried to make it into an infographic, but I didn’t have a good idea to make it, so I redo the PowerPoint instead, and this is the result.

In my old presentation, I used too many words and too few graphics to demonstrate my points, so I rethink my design and try to cut down as many unnecessary words as possible to simplify my wording in the PowerPoint. Instead, I put more graphics from the manga, letting readers feel the tension from the graphics themselves. I try to make my presentation more like a storytelling presentation by introducing my points step by step.

EDCI335

I did try to make an infographic of my other course’s assignment, here is the result(I know it is quite bad, but I am posting it in case anyone wants to see it).

And for the actual infographic I made for EDCI 335, I tried to use only two colours to make the page look more simple, but somehow it came out bad. However, I think it gets better on the second page, I felt better explaining my ideas on the second, I tried to minimize my wordings to make it looks simpler, but that did not go very well. I created some icons from the simple pattern I found on the web, I did not follow the storytelling method to make this infographic, I just simply suggest the easy way to practice Cantonese in this infographic.

Conclusion

In creating a simpler version of these two assignments, by using one of the methods I learnt from this course, simplification: I made both of the assignments simpler, with less wording to present the points, instead, I used more images for readers to combine their experience of words and images. with these improvements, I think that I created a better reading experience for my readers. However, I also understand that I still have numerous gaps to fill when it is about designing, In my infographic of Cantonese, I had a bad choice of word styling, poor colour choice, and sometimes wordy. I will keep improving myself so that I could eventually fix these problems.