For our final project, we decided to display a tri-fold with all different aspects of our visual communications class this semester. We are trying to achieve a beginning understanding of what this course entitles, and to give students who are interested in a visual communications major or minor a preview of what is to come.
We first created three pie graphs, all displaying the same data. We did this purposely to show what a good pie graph looks like, a decent one, and a perfect one. The three graphs display how this course, can help communications students better visualize and display their thoughts more clearly.
Next we decided to display a mind map, because we thought this is one of the best brainstorming activities. For the holidays we decided to display a mind map with Christmas located in the middle cloud. For interested visual communications students, this is an activity that will get their brains to start flowing with ideas.
On the far right side of our poster, we displayed a flow chart that gives detailed instructions on how to change your major or minor to communications. Not only does this give a detailed, straightforward set of directions, it also appears to be the last piece to be looked at. We decided to place it at the end, so that if students have become interested in a major or minor in communications, they will know exactly how to switch their major.
On the top left side of our poster we decided to show different type of bar graphs to show our persona the statistics about the program but also something else they will learn in this class. The statistics provided will help the student with how many people are in the program, how many are men and women and how many stay in the program or drop out of it later in college.
For this final presentation we sat down and brainstormed the many ideas that we learned in this class through the semester and chose the main ideas that stood out to us the most from the semester. When choosing the ideas we placed them in a controlled collage and then put the most important if the student would want to transfer at the end. We decided to put a giant mind map in the middle of the poster because we all thought that this was the most important idea we absorbed from the course.
My personal experience with this project was pretty satisfying. The first time my group sat down, we agreed that having a giant poster board with aspects of visual communications on it would be most appropriate. I think the actually design of how we laid out the different aspects was interesting, because the project ended with a flow chart that instructed the viewer to go out and change their major or minor to communications.
