Color Exercise
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COMMUNICATING
WITH COLOR EXERCISE

 DIRECTIONS:  In the two columns below are a list of colors and a list of characteristics. 

 

PowerPoint Exercise:  Your task is to redesign the Communicating with Color PowerPoint :

              1. —Redesign slide one.  Use your own background and include the following information:

Name
Multimedia Presentations
Block ?
Ms. Kohmuench or Mrs. Mazza
Date

            2. —For each color slide:

Use the color name as the title of the slide( Be creative in designing your title)
Add the cultural meaning of the color in two different countries (other than the United States)
Create a background
Add picture(s) that represent the color

Click here for the Rubric

Sample Color Exercise

      InDesign Exercise:  The task of your group is to open up the InDesign document “Color Exercise” and do the following:

             1. —Show layers

            2. —Click on a color layer to make it active and click to show layer.

            3.—Change the transparency of the layer to 50%.

            4. —Type the color as the title of the active layer.

            5. —Type a bulleted list of the corresponding characteristics of the color.

            6.—Type a one word description of what the color means to you.  Use the Control Palette to angle/rotate the words.

           7.—Add a picture/graphic to represent the color.  Show half the pictures using Masking and Grouping and the other half using pictures in AutoShapes in PowerPoint and saving the pictures as tif files.

 

 

COLORS

Red

Green

Pink

Purple

Orange

White

Yellow

Black

Brown

Gray

Blue

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS

Money, earthy, nature, freshness

Hottest of all colors, warmth, energy

Power, sophistication, depression

Purity, cleanliness, newness

Youthful, insecure, soft

Earth, comfort, reliability

High energy, excitement, anger, speedy

Happy, cowardice, luminosity

Neutrality, futurism, technology, dreariness

Regal, spiritual, majestic

Conservative, trustworthy, calm

 

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