Finally done with signs, they are good to go. I got the news that they will be printed out and displayed on the shop. I can’t wait until I can see them up; I’ve never had anything I ‘ve done displayed to the general public so it is very exciting. I think is really rewarding when you know you have worked hard for something and for it to be shared and shown. I think is a huge deal because it definitely makes you more confident in yourself and in the work you do.

Today I began creating some more ads that basically speak about the sales, like I mentioned last week. The work hasn’t been hectic; they really understand and work with my schedule well. They like to see what I’m working on for other classes and even when there’s not much to do at the shop I can work on some schoolwork while they find a next project for me. The end is nearly a month away and I feel very anxious while at the same time looking forward to creating new things. This semester has been very interesting and this internship has helped me learn things about the way I work outside of school.

Another thing I forgot to mention I spend most of the time rendering the “A Journey” videos. Each video took about 2 and half hours to render the 7-10 min video. My macbook really is showing its age. It is really frustrating when trying to get stuff done but being held back by the technology. This week was my last week. I saw where they put the logo that I created. Its on the Media Center website promoting the event for tomorrow 5/13/15. I am going to attend to see what it is about and if I can learn anything about branding myself for freelance. I had to create a poster about the event with the panelist. Its going to have 3 panelist from different companies. One panelist she is VP of marketing solutions at espn. Another is from Music choice and the last one is from MTV Network. Hopefully I can network also. After I created the poster I had to create a intro animation for the poster in the same style, but I had to animate all the elements in the poster like the panelist images and the series logo. Here I had to prepare the logo AI file to make it editable in after effects to have every part of the logo in its separate layer. it was really fun because during the weekend I created a similar type of animation for a mock promo for a mls soccer match between NYCFC vs New York Red Bulls. Here’s the link to the mock promo video. https://youtu.be/w3qRbX5q-8s. If I can I will post the video of the animation later on during the week after the panel.

This week I came in and everybody in the company all talking about the flop of the century I mean the “fight of the century”  Pacquiao Vs Mayweather. A lot of debates going back and forth on who won and that is was going to be a technical fight. It was entertaining. The logo was finalized and approved. I got another video to edit. This time was for the fight. I thought he had gone to Vegas and got clips, but he went to a club and filmed an event. Most of the time this week I was just editing the video and creating motion graphics transition templates for the designer to use in any video when he needs something quick. I did about 3 transitions. He told me to go video copilot website and look up a tutorial he wanted me to check out and try to do a transition for him he liked and change it up to suit what he was going to use it for. He was going to use it for a teaser of the fight I was working on. I also got assigned to create a flyer for their services for example: printing business cards, banners, stickers, calendars etc.

They finally chose a direction to take to the bridge series logo in. Now I can really focus on the fine details now that I know what they want. It is hard when you don’t have direction. Even though you have creative freedom. The design might not please the client or your boss. That’s why I always ask questions to help me narrow which direction you go in and makes it more easier clearer to design and come up with concepts with these constraints. That’s where our problem solving skills are put to the test. The CEO just said I know it when I see it. That is no help at all, but he did like my concept of building and construction or bridging it all together. As for the CD cover I don’t know if they used it or not. They haven’t mentioned nothing yet. The CEO gave me a side project to work on. He is doing a video series called “A Journey” where he and his friend try a go in depth to what it really means to go on “A Journey”. I have to edit and do corrections to the videos. It looks like its going to be about 6 episodes in total. That’s going to be a lot of rendering. I just hope my computer can handle it. Its really old macbook.