When I was in college, my dream (for lack of a better word) was to be the next great SportsCenter anchor. I watched the show each night fairly religiously and since I was working in sports media relations and majoring in broadcasting, it seemed like a natural fit for me.
Category: Communications/PR/Work
Posts about areas under the greater Communications umbrella like marketing and public relations and graphic design and media relations and social media. Also posts about things I’ve done as part of my day job.
So I’m doing this now
Last summer, I guest hosted my college’s monthly television show when the regular host was out of the country. I wasn’t great but I don’t think I was too bad either. I think I described my performance as not overly-terrible, just more garden-variety terrible.
More After Effects
I’ve been doing a little more experimenting with After Effects lately. This time I pulled a “logo reveal” template off an assets site. I’m not 100 percent satisfied with it – I’d like to make the transitions a little longer and I’m not wild about the way the logo is stylized at the end –...
Learning After Effects
I’ve been trying to learn how to use Adobe’s After Effects, and as a test project, I made this holiday video for work. It’s certainly not perfect but as an early effort, it’s not too bad. I especially like the snowfall effect.
That time I hosted a TV show
As part of my real job, I help coordinate a monthly television show for Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering. My part usually involves scheduling guests based on what’s going on within the college and coordinating with the folks at the MSU Television Center. But when our usual host was out of the country for...