Mikhail Zaporozhtsev's ePortfolio

Last week (November 9th), as a class, we went to the academic building theater for a movie screening “UFO Club” directed by Steven Tsapelas and produced by one of the CityTech professors Michael Cannetti.

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Isana reviewed our designs and said that she liked the version with the date below. She also asked to add some patterns. She said that the department still did not give any copy for the poster so we needed to work more on patterns.

Here is what I had for that day:

I was inspired by the example Isana provided, and created these two versions of the poster with a square pattern.

This day we started to work on the COACHE poster for the Survey of Faculty. Isana provided us the folder with an example of the work, and the text that should be on the poster. She also said that there is no body text yet because it was not provided yet by the administration. Isana said she wanted to use some angular shapes on the poster – squares or rectangles. Each of us decided to do our own version of the poster. We also had to come up with several different slogans, and I chose “The Focus is on Faculty!”.

For that, I used the style guide of the school, I used the fonts and colors provided there.

Above – are three very initial versions of the poster. I played with the layout of the text in different colors (gold or magenta). I’ve decided to place the CUNY logo at the beginning because we would use it anyway, so I wanted to see how it looks.

After the first meeting with my supervisor – Isana – my teammates and I were given a task to take a look at video footage that she already had and try to compile it into a short video (the 60s). I tried to do it and put the footage in a logical sequence as much as I could, but it was not enough. There was too little usefull footage, so I after that – next meeting – I brought up this to Isana, and she said to put the videos aside then, and focus on the COACHE poster.

My supervisor is Isana Leshchinkaya. She is “the assessment manager in the Office of Educational Research and Assessment under Institutional Effectiveness, specializing in online assessment, regional and professional accreditation, and survey research and administration.”

My interview was on Zoom, and basically, this meeting was an introduction to each other.

Isana described to me the projects me and my team would have to do throughout the internship (not necessarily every one and each of them, but as much as we can). They are one poster called COACHE, a series of Tik-Tok videos, and one poster with charts made in InDesign that we need to convert to a Word document (somehow). Also, we would work on a Fast Fact sheet–update it for the current year. Then, she asked me what can I do, what programs I am familiar with, and how can I help. I said that I’m ok with Adobe Premiere Pro, so I can help with editing (but not shooting; at least, not as a cameraman); I can help with posters (create them in InDesign). She agreed with that and gave me access to the team folder on Google Drive where I would find all the needed files (examples and videos) and said that my teammates are Oscar and Simon, the same guys from our internship class.

In September we had to watch some webinars or attend a networking event (online or in-person). I decided to participate in an online webinar on YouTube about 3D modeling for VR/AR/games program “echo 3D”.

The guy, streamer, and co-founder of the company “echo3D”, Alon Grinshpoon, basically was advertising his product. This software is allowing to upload created 3D models made in Blender, Unity, and other similar programs, manipulate them with it in the “Echo”, and also see how they will look in VR or AR; all on the fly.

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