Final Project - Musical Band or Artist Show

You are to develop a slideshow dedicated to your favorite band or musical artist. This project can be a lot of fun if you are able to organize your thoughts well BEFORE you begin actually designing the slideshow.

Project Requirements:

1. Must have a blank slide before the intro and after the ending slide
2. Must have an introduction (Welcome to a Tribute to.....with by Your Name)
3. You must organize your show by band members/artist, albums, awards, singles, performances/concerts, and a photo gallery. If you wish to add any additional information, please feel free to do so.
4. Each section of the presentations should have a caption (text) that explains or introduces the different parts of the show (separate slides for each).
5. Must have AT LEAST 25 pictures either from the internet and/or scanned
6. Must have 3 DIFFERENT songs from the band or artist (this must come from a CD)
7. Must have transitions between every slide
8. At least 5 of the backgrounds must be customized (designed by you in Paint)
9. At least 5 of the images must utilize motion effects
10. Text effects must be included on every slide
11. MUST include a credits slide at the end of the presentation (second to last slide). Your Name, Copyright symbol, date, copyright information for the music that you chose. (You must include separate credits for each album/title of song you used.
12. Be sure to proofread and spell check.
13. Save the presentation in your MP4 folder as Music Tribute.

This project is worth 60 points. You will be deducted 5 points for each step not completed.
Have fun!

Final Project - Room Layout

Today you will be starting the second to last phase of your final project. You will be desigining a layout of the room where you will be dancing, eating, and having fun!

The following things must be drawn and utilized in order to receive full credit:

• Tables labeled with table numbers
• Band/DJ location
• Bar/Beverage location
• Food stations (choose 4 from the following: Meat station, Fish station, Vegetarian section, Italian food station, Chinese food station, Mediterranean food station, American food station, Mexican food station, or Indian food station.
• Buffet and/or Dessert Table
• Dance floor

Every table/station MUST be labeled accordingly. In addition, you must utilize the following features of OpenOffice Draw or Publisher:

• Basic shapes
• 3D
• Shadow
• Fill color
• Line color
• Line styles

This part of the project is worth 25 points. Save as Room Layout in your Final Project when finished.

Final Project - Business Letter

Today, you will be completing the third part of your final project, the business letter. You will be using the letterhead that you designed last class and typing your letter on the letterhead. Follow the instructions for formatting the business letter carefully and be sure to PROOFREAD!

Requirements:
Use today's date
Address the letter to the person and establishment where you wish to hold your reunion.
Include a salutation (greeting)
The letter MUST include at least three paragraphs of 4-6 sentences each.
1st paragraph - Introduce yourself, your title (family member of _______ family). Also, explain your reason for writing. (Explain that you are planning a family reunion and that you are considering holding your reunion at their venue).
2nd paragraph - Provide a detailed description of when you would like to have the reunion. Also, ask if there are any activities or events that would be held during the specific time. In the same paragraph, request date availability and pricing information. You want to find out when they have available open times and what price it would cost to have it there. This will be your longest paragraph.
3rd paragraph - Conclude by thanking them for considering your request and that you hope to hear from them soon. Restate that you have requested date availability and pricing information. Also, tell them where you can be reached with a phone number and email.
**This letter should not exceed one page. Be sure that each of your paragraphs includes 4-6 COMPLETE and FULL sentences.

Alphabet Show

For this project, you will be creating a multimedia presentation using ProShow Gold, that helps a young child learn the letters of the alphabet.

**First, you must create a new folder in your Multimedia folder called Alphabet Show. Then, create a folder inside of that and call it Pictures. You must save all of the pictures for this show in that folder.
You will complete this project in three parts, Parts 1 and 2 are below. My recommendation is to print these instructions and check off each step as you complete them. This will ensure that all requirements are met and that the presentation is completed successfully.

Part 1

Step 1

1. Choose an appropriate theme (Disney, Cartoons, Fruit, Vegetables, etc). This theme must be something that children can recognize. Nothing that could scare them. I MUST approve all themes before you get started.
2. Use Google Images to find appropriate pictures for each of the letters in the alphabet (This is a total of 26 DIFFERENT pictures, for example, a picture of an Apple to represent the letter A, a picture of a Banana to represent the letter B, and so on...)
3. You MUST include a separate document to list the URL's for each picture.
4. Open ProShow Gold and go to File > New. In the folder list, find your network folder. Locate your multimedia folder and open your pictures folder. In the timeline, right click on the first slide. Select Insert > Blank Slide. Double-click on the same slide to open Slide Options. Click on the Backgrounds icon. Choose a background color that you would like to use for your blank slide. Click DONE.

Step 2

1. Using the blank slide that you created in #4 of Step 1, double-click to open the Slide Options. Choose Captions and type the following: Welcome to (Your name's) Alphabet Show (If you want each word to have its own text effect or appear in a different location, you must type each word individually).
2. Select a font style, size, and color. Since this slide will only contain text, make sure it is large enough. Also, be sure you can see the text over the background color that you chose.

Step 3

1. Insert a new blank slide after the first.
2. Double click on the slide to open the Slide Options and choose a DIFFERENT background color.
3. Then, in the Captions section type: Let's Learn Our ABC's!
4. Repeat #2 above.

Part 1 is worth 30 points. For each step not completed, you will receive 3 points off (this refers to the numbered steps).
Part 2

Step 1

1. After creating your first two introductory slides, create an additional 27 slides with DIFFERENT background colors. Be sure to create a blank slide first before changing the background colors.
2. Beginning with Slide 3, type: The Letter A. Continue through the rest of the slides and type The Letter B, The Letter C, and so on....until all slides contain this information.
3. Create a DIFFERENT text effect for each slide. You MUST have the text Enter and Exit the screen with an effect.

Step 2

1. Next, add the remaining text to each slide. This text must be a seperate text entry. In Slide Options, go to Captions and use the (+) to add another SEPERATE text entry. (This will be the name of the image that represents the letter. For example Ariel, Bambi, Cinderella, Dumbo.....). Add a text effect to this text as well.
2. After all of the text has been added, begin adding the images to each slide.
3. The pictures CANNOT take up the whole slide. The images must be resized so that the text is not covering any part of them.
4. Lastly, add a motion effect to each of the images.

Part 2 is worth 35 points. For each step not completed you will receive 5 points off.
Part 3
Step 1

1. Create your conclusion slides. In the timeline, right click in the first empty slide and select INSERT > BLANK SLIDE.
2. The third to last slide should say "Now you know your ABC's"
3. The second to last slide will have "Create by Your name, Block #, and your picture
4. Last slide will either say "The End" or it can just be a blank slide.

Step 2

1. Be sure to check and make sure that your slides are timed for at least 4-5 seconds each. (This will change once you add music)
2. Find 3 songs that you would like to use for your show. These should only include a section of the song, not the entire thing.
3. Record your 3 songs back to back in Sound Forge XP.
4. Save your sound file.
5. Sync Show to Audio. **It is OK if the slides change to a different duration than before.
6. Create an executable file.

Part 3 is worth 20 points. For each part not completed, you will receive 2 points off.










This project is due on April 23.

Team Fundraising Spreadsheet

Create a new spreadsheet in OpenOffice Calc. Below are the instructions for completing this activity:

1. Type TEAM FUNDRAISING DRIVE in cell A1. Merge cells A1:G1.
2. Type Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, and TEAM TOTALS, respectively, in cells B3:F3. These are your column headings. Format them appropriately.
3. Think of four team names and type them in cells A4, A5, A6, and A7.
4. For each of the teams, provide an amount that they raised for each week. (Refer to example below). These MUST be different for each team!
5. Type WEEKLY TOTALS in cell A9 and type TOTAL AMOUNT RAISED in cell C11, merging cells C11 through E11. 
6. Type a formula in cell F4 that calculates the amount raised by each team. Use the fill handle to copy the formula.
7. Type a formula in cell B9 that calculates the amount raised by all teams during each week. Use the fill handle to copy the formula.
8. Type a formula in cell F11 that calculates the total amount raised by all teams.
9. Select cells A3:E7. Create a BAR CHART to display this data.
10. Give it the title FUNDRAISING BY TEAM. The X axis should be labeled as Amount Raised and the Y axis should be labeled as Team Name.
11. Add data labels to the chart and choose 'show value as number'

Save the spreadsheet as 'Team Fundraising' in your spreadsheets folder.

Activity provided by: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/ogp/training/downloads/mod6_create_your_own.pdf