6A Slide Project

 

Talk: ‘A Prophet’s Counsel and Prayer for Youth,’ given in 2001 by Prophet Gordon B.  https://www.lds.org/ensign/2001/01/a-prophets-counsel-and-prayer-for-youth?lang=eng

Speaker’s Outline: A Prophet’s Counsel and Prayer for Youth

1. Threshold of your mature lives

•      God will not forsake you if walk in His path (Slide 1)
•      Fortunate to be alive
•      Counsel: You get the “A’s” I’ll give you the “B’s”

2. Be Grateful (Slide 2)

•      Say thank-you
•      Be grateful for opportunities, friends, family, Lord
•      Spirit of thanksgiving guide and bless you
•      Work at it; yields wonderful results

3. Be Smart (Slide 3)

•      You need all the education you can get
•      Train your minds and hand to become influences for good

4. Be Clean (Slide 4)

•      Your body is holy
•      Entertainment, Language, Piercings, Tattoos, Pornography, Drugs, Chastity
•      Choose friends wisely

5. Be True (Slide 5)

•      Be Loyal
•      Covenants: Baptism, Sacrament
•      Walk in Faith

6. Be Humble (Slide 6)

•       No place for arrogance, conceit, egotism
•       “… the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand.”
•       Teachable

Message: To encourage young woman to stay on the Lord’s path and chose His ways through six simple choices. Be grateful, smart, clean, true, humble, and prayerful.

Process: Many hours later, I found quality images that matched my color scheme fairly well. Not an easy task. I used those images to create slides that had a simple look, that would be easy and calming on the eyes. I used the eyedropper for color, I rotated a number of images to be looking toward the text for better flow. In addition I cropped and adjusted the images to avoid them being centered. As a repeating element I used various weighted, colored lines; both horizontal and vertical.

Color Scheme: Analogous. Shades of Blues and Pinks (pinks are created with purple and red), Cool side of the color wheel, calming. Used eyedropper to match some of the colors in images.

Audience: Young Women ages 12 to 18 years of age.

Font: Sans Serif: Lucida Sans Unicode.

Critique: My critiques are listed below. Although, I tried to use the ‘eye dropper’ to match the colors in the images, it backfired and many of my comments were to match the colors by slide not image so I made those changes, choosing a darker pink like suggested. My favorite critique was to switch between colors for the text box and font color which I did. I also added more repeating elements with weighted lines to add more variety.

Judy Daines I love your slides. I think the first slide has similar color palette (balloon) with the picture than the rest of the slides and that was the only thing that I might change. Beautiful talk. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have many talks that are the same. This was a significant talk that have touched so many of our youth in our church. Great job.

Shelley Guthrie Tiffany This is awesome! I love the bright, happy colors and uplifting images. Each is relevant to the point being made. Your theme is consistent. Great job!

Shelley Guthrie Tiffany Prayerful is the only one where the text is inside the image. Maybe consider putting it in a vertical text box along the left area, if possible, so your words are all in the left?

Dee Selph Wightman Try putting your slides in an album on our class page. That should work for getting them all in your post.

Cheryl Meinen Also noticed that grateful is greener looking than all the blue slides.

Connie Stanford Chatelain So far, the only suggestion I have is that the “prayerful” slide has the words by the image and all of the others have the word on the left.

Instructor: Kristen Newby Larson. Excellent images. Color scheme good. Two different pinks; darker pink better. “In general, I like.” Add a little more variety; not just left, try right or bottom. Consider switching between colors for the fonts and text boxes.

Images:

Slide 1: ‘Stay on HIS Path.’ Two little girls walking on path. https://hdwallpapers.cat/wallpaper_mirror/clouds_sunset_landscape_path_sisters_girl_hd-wallpaper-1810454.jpg

Slide 2: Grateful. Girl with pink balloons.  http://blog.novakdjokovicfoundation.org/media/2014/11/girl-with-balloons.jpg

Slide 3: Smart. Girl with magnifying glass. https://www.promiseprenatal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/How-to-Help-Your-Child-to-Love-Learning.jpg

Slide 4: Clean. Girl with umbrella in rain. http://spiritualityhealth.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/gratefulrain.jpg?itok=pjklvBIi

Slide 5. True. Christ Baptism. http://iccwatertown.org/Portals/0/JesusBaptism.jpg

Slide 6. Humble. Dirty hands holding flower. https://khfirdavs.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/humble_gift_by_marielliott.jpg

Slide 7. Prayerful. Girl with hands folded in prayer. https://trivedimasterwellness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rsz_depositphotos_6469790_original.jpg