Mini-Redesign

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Here is a copy of my original PowerPoint presentation:

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Here is the redesigned PowerPoint:

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This PowerPoint was created by me back in college as a presentation for Students in religious studies. As part of the requirements for graduation, I became an aid to one of my college professors. This involved creating presentations for the class and other material. This is one PowerPoint that I am particularly proud of. For the re-design, I followed several of the graphic design principles. One of the principles I followed was repetition, specifically the repetition of the font throughout the PowerPoint (oddly enough, the text for many of the slides changed when uploaded to slideshare, as well as text appearing in different locations). I changed the text on the slides the that introduce Judaism in Television and Judaism in Film, as well as the text that appears on both of the film slides. Now, the font is that same on all of the slides. Next, I followed the principle of contrast. The film slides originally used a red background for emphasis, but looking back it is now clear that the text did not contrast enough with the background, so for the revision I changed them to a white background. I also followed the principle of Alignment, meaning I wanted everything on each slide to be visually connected to everything else on the slide. Looking back, I realized that some of the text and images did not match the text properly. So, to correct this, I found new images to better fit the quotes being said, and in the case of the "Wish upon a Weinstein" slide I added different quotes from the episode to better match the images being used. Finally, to make sure that no one became overwhelmed, I followed the cognitive load theory of preventing redundancy. In the original, I had a number of slides that re-used a few of the same images. I chose to use them more than once because I enjoyed them, but now I notice that reusing the same images causes them to lose their impact. So, I found new pictures that better fit the slides, and in some cases I just deleted the more redundant slides since I had to shrink it to 10 slides for this assignment. Overall, this was a fun assignment, and I enjoyed finding new ways of improving upon one of my favorite old Power Points.