We planned to obtain our information form the Internet mainly, sometimes we looked through books by researching in the library, and we borrowed books that could give us some information.
Method
I created my database on Microsoft® PowerPoint, I could make Graphics animate, I could also add sound to the animation.
When I accessed PowerPoint a small window came up asking me how I wanted the layout to be for the Presentation, I chose the blank one with only a Text box for the title.
I used size 16 in the fonts that gave information on the cars, for the title’s I used size 48. I used mixed colour backgrounds, I chose two colours to mix and I set them appropriately. To make sure our presentation was not too boring we chose two colours of which matched the car make for the background. We also colour coordinated the Action buttons of the slides to make it look more attractive.
I used Images of cars standing alone and still, to show what they looked like at normal view.. I also used animation so people won’t have to only listen to me and what I said. I used hotspots or Hyperlinks to take me back to my Contents page, so I could go to the desired page quickly. I also used Action buttons, these buttons helped me to get from one slide to the next, or from one slide to the previous slide.
I also used sound to make my presentation better and more people will be interested, the sound involved used sounds that cars would usually have something to do with, such as ‘Drive by’.
Also to make our presentation better to listen to, we used different sound effects, and we controlled them so they were done in an order e.g. first we done ‘Drive by’, then ‘Whoosh’, then ‘Lightning’. We kept doing them I that order, which made our presentation look more worked on and more neater.
To do Animation, I right clicked on the back ground of the page I wanted to custom Animate, then a small window popped up asking what I wanted to Animate, what I wanted to animate, from which directrion I wanted the animation to come up, either animate by word, letter or paragraph, or add sound.
There was also a tab in the small window that gave me the chance to do my timings
To test my presentation I pressed F5 and the presentation took up the whole screen, and showed me what it would look like in my actual presentation.
Results
This is a screen print of all of my slides in one screen.
This shows my work and how controlled it was. Our group work helped in this particular idea because we especially needed the slides to match so the presentation could be seen and understood easier.
Evaluation
As a group member I have contributed to the group well. I have completed my slides successfully on my own, and I helped my group members with some of their problems. I also helped to create some slides and I got some information for each of the members.
As a group we could have made some improvements, some to the presentation and some to the group organisation. One improvement we could have made was to make the group work fully together; giving our own ideas and coming up with something that all four of us thought was excellent. Another Improvement could have been that we should have previously designed our slides so that we could all come up with the same slide designs and so that we did not get mixed up with anything. A final improvement that I think we could have made was probably to put some small videos into our slides so that people could get a better feel of what we were presenting. Some problems that we had were the setting of the different slides, some of the slides were set out much more differently than all of the other slides, so we solved that by putting everyone’s slides together and making improvements there, this was done with the whole group together.
We believe our presentation has met out target audience’s needs because we included much information about the cars we involved in our presentation and we have a script that tells as much as people would want to know about cars.
To keep our work safe and accurate we saved part of it in each of our server addresses, we also kept our own copy of work on a disc each, and we also saved our work onto our servers.
