Class Project 03 - Instagram Post

Alright, time for the next class project. Uh, we've learned loads of skills for the last few videos  and we're gonna wrap them up in this class project here. We are gonna finish off this one. We started with this early on in the course. That was one of the early class projects. If you haven't, you can rush and catch up.

Okay? And then I want you to just take it to the next level  with all the skills that we've learned. Okay? What are those skills? Okay, I want you to make sure there's a badge, okay? I'm calling this a badge and it's gonna have the thing  you're giving away with the text wrapped  around it all grouped, okay?

That's what I want you to do. So use  that curve text effects feature that we learned. I want you to group it just a practice. I want you to add a call to action sentence, okay? A CTA or call to action is just,  we're trying to get people to do something. My wine, which is not great, is come  and see what the buzz is all about.

Do something like that. I don't mind what it is. It's more just an element that we can lay out here in Canva. I want you to play with lines, okay? One or more. I've got one there, got one there.

You can put yours wherever. I don't mind. Just play around with them. Graphics. There's two kinds of graphics I want you to add. I want the animal that you were given  during your brief and then something else.

So that's my animal. That little house there  with a heart in it, I've used for the address. Okay? That's a graphic. We've got lots of graphics all over mine, a minimum of two. Your animal and something else.

And as many as you like. Okay? Add the address on it as well. And I want you to experiment with  what we did in the last project. Okay? I want you to get good at this.

I want you to duplicate the page  and then play around with the color palettes and font sets. So, uh, in this particular view,  remember we've gone from scroll to thumbnail. It's up to you. Uh, it's a little not harder but different. Um, so a look, scroll view. You've got these like duplicate the page option.

If I go to thumbnail view, it's in this  like little flatout menu. I can duplicate the page game I already played with one. And then I want you to go in here to design styles  and have a play around with color palettes. Let's have a look. I'm just, I'm always amazed at like  how easy it is to kind of go through  and go, all right, let's try a different  color method or colorway. And you're like, oh look at this.

Some of them are terrible. Not down with that one. Oh, weird wasn't into it. Now I'm into it. Okay? But have a little look through here.

Experiment with it on a separate page. The same with the font sense. Okay, go through. It's gonna go and try. Ooh, that one's nice. You might have to play around with some  of the font sizes if you  like it, but you just wanna change it.

And when you finish I want you to kind  of either pick the one that you've been working on  or this remodeled one or combine them  but it's not the one that you feel like, I don't know,  it feels like the best option, the one you like the most. And then I want you to take a screenshot or export a p and g  and upload it to the class projects  and share it on social media. Now a little upgrade here to the class projects is uh,  giving feedback to other people. So at the moment, like, you know, try and get in there  and kind of give feedback on posts. It is tricky. Like there's literally, I don't know,  there's thousands a week getting posted now.

So I just can't keep up with everybody. So what we do is the social contract you signed up  for you didn't know is that when you post something you have  to give feedback on two other bits of work. That's how this works. I can't actually check  it, but I hope that's the deal. Um, we do it for two things is  that you love getting feedback, okay? And it's really important when you are being a creative  in Canva that  Communicating the feedback on other people's work is often  just as important as doing the work itself.

Being able to kind of articulate yourself,  practice using the words, trying  to work out why you like things that is super important. So go through post yours and then go through two others. And it doesn't have to be big, it can be more detailed,  but I want you to practice giving feedback, okay? And often a good method if you're like, oh, I don't know  how good feedback, a good method is the  sandwich I got beeped, didn't I? Let's call it the constructive sandwich. Okay?

So hey, that was great. Uh, you might want to try playing around  with maybe some smaller fonts  because they're all bigger  fonts 'cause they're hard to read. Uh, gr work on your first project, that is the sandwich. Nice either side, something constructive in the inside  and try to be quite specific. Not that looks good because for you  as the like reviewer giving feedback, that is the bit  that you need to develop and that is super important,  being able to kind of give constructive feedback. 'cause giving it to other people makes you aware  of your own work and go, ah, okay, that's too small,  this is the reason I didn't like that one so I can do this.

That's how you get better. Anyway,  that is the long-winded version of the class project. It's not that big of a project, okay? Just make sure that when you post it,  add some feedback to other people. Enjoy working on your project. Alright, that is it.

I will see you once you've done your not homework. Bye.