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COMMUNICATING
WITH COLOR EXERCISE
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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 Mr. Honig
Date
2. —For each color slide:
Redesign Slide 1: Use the color name as
the title of the slide( Be creative in designing your title)
Web Site Slide 2: Research a web site that uses the color predominantly.
In the notes section explain why the color was chosen and its intended meaning.
Product/Packaging Slide 3: Find a product that uses the color
predominantly for the product itself or the packaging of the product. In
the notes section explain why the color was chosen and its intended meaning.
For Blocks 2 and 5
Cultural Meanings Slide
4: Add the cultural meaning of the color in two
different countries (other than the United States)
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
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Red
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Green
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Purple
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Orange
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White
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Yellow
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Black
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Brown
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Gray
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Blue
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CHARACTERISTICS
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Money, earthy,
nature, freshness
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Hottest of all colors, warmth, energy
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Power,
sophistication, depression
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Purity,
cleanliness, newness
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Youthful,
insecure, soft
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Earth, comfort,
reliability
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High energy,
excitement, anger, speedy
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Happy,
cowardice, luminosity
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Neutrality,
futurism, technology, dreariness
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Regal, spiritual, majestic
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Conservative,
trustworthy, calm
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