Thursday, November 29, 2007

Music Slide-Show

For my slide-show presentation based on one of my favorite artists I chose to present Lily Allen. She's a singer from England, with poppy up-beat tempos with less then orthodox lyrics for the type of music she plays. She sings about cheating ex's and how she enjoys seeing them cry. She talks about her marijuana smoking little brother, old women getting mugged, pimps and crack whores as well as shopping at the grocery store.For the first slide in my presentation I chose a black and white picture the best depicted Lily's Personality while the rest of the slide I chose a coral background with white writing. I felt this color scheme worked best with the other pictures later on in the presentation, and was very cohesive and didn't get draining to read off of.The second slide, I chose to do background information on Allen and her life experiences. I chose to make the background a performance picture of her. I altered it in photoshop changed the pixels, as well at saturted the picture this way making it easier to read off of. I altered the colors to make the main focus off your eye her pink dress and chose a black text because the white wasn't didn't flow as well.
The third slide i altered another performance picture and removed the texture from the picture making the colors alot more mundane and adding a link to the artists website for anyone who may be interested in finding out more information about her.
The fourth slide I did a comparison chart shows the differences between her and fellow artists from her country that she has recently been compared to in the public eye. I compared her age, town of birth and first single to those of Lady Soverign, and Amy Winehouse. The Side I chose a vertical mural of many pictures from different angles with the coral background with the white writing.
The fifth and final slide is the slide displaying all her track titles and time as well as her American Album cover. Again - I used the coral background and the white text to make the entire show flow together.
I found the most challenging thing on this project to be the tampering with the MP3. There were so many ways to get it done, but it was the hardest. This project in itself was very fun because you got to make a slide-show depicted not only yours but your artists personality.


http://www.medialab.rosandbox.org/ecomm2/dzicek_lilyallen/