Picture Season - Part 2
A Season in Six
Directions for creating an artistic slideshow

Goal: By using your pictures that you created in the Picture Season - Part 1 project, you will create a storytelling slideshow. Through the ethical use of a variety of media and formats, you are going to share and communicate your thoughts and ideas.

Directions:

  1. First, we will launch Microsoft PowerPoint.
  2. You will create 10 slides; a title slide and nine additional slides to hold your pictures; for slide 1 you should choose Blank, and for slides 2-10 you should choose Title and Content
  3. On your title slide be sure to include:
    1. The title: Fall - A Season in Six (If you have one of the other 3 seasons, substitute the word 'Fall' for the correct season.)
    2. Your name
    3. A colorful background - click on the Design tab and use the pull down under Background Styles - select Format Background to add a colorful background
  4. For slides 2-10, you will need the following on each slide:
    1. One of your manipulated pictures - by clicking on the 'Insert Picture from File' button, you can add your saved Pictures
    2. The original photo - you can make this photo the smaller one of the two. Be creative in your placement and design.
    3. In the title space describe your picture with a sentence that has ONLY SIX WORDS!
    4. Although your picture(s) will take up most of the screen, you still need to put a professional looking background on each slide.
  5. Add slide transitions -
    1. Click on the Animations Tab
    2. Locate where it says 'Transistion to This Slide,' and you can choose to have different transitions on each slide or one transition for the entire presentation by choosing Apply to All
  6. Add custom animations - we are going to be very specific in our custom animations.  In this presentation, we only want the pictures to come onto the page - you may choose the type of animation.  We want the manipulated photo to come on first, and the original photo to come second so that viewers can compare the two.  Use these directions to help you:
    1. Animate your photos in the order you wish for them to appear.
    2. Click on the Animations Tab and touch where it says Custom Animation (a Custom Animation Window will appear on the right side of your PowerPoint window)
    3. Click on the item you wish to animate
    4. Click on Add Effect: Entrance to assign an entry effect to your item

Project Example:

Summer - A Season in Six (*This slideshow example does not show the Custom Animations)

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