Help needed to create nice responsive slideshow in CSS

I am currently working on creating a responsive slideshow. Or to elaborate a little more, I have created one and I am looking for ideas on the look / design of it. I don't have a set look in mind and hopefully this is where the community here comes in! it would be great if you peeps would have any ideas on expanding on my quite frankly awful looking style

To be fair I have been working on creating and ensuring the slideshow is fully responsive. This is where my knowledge lays, the actual design / how things look is not my strong point.

Any thoughts or suggestions greatly received! I will be releasing this as a sub theme on Drupal eventually and I am happy to add your name/s to the developers list.

This is my current code for the slide show:

#block-views-slideshow-block {
 border: 5px solid #004d79;
 background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
#block-views-slideshow-block .views-field-title {
 font-weight:bold;
 font-style:oblique;
 text-align:center;
 padding:0px;
 font-size:150%;
 background:transparent; 
}
#block-views-slideshow-block .views-field-field-image {
 text-align: center;
}
.views-slideshow-cycle-main-frame{
 position: relative !important;
 width: 100% !important;
 height: auto;
}
.views-slideshow-cycle-main-frame-row{
 width: 100% !important;
}

I have also attached how the slideshow looks currently in two views.