Jake's e-Comm experience

     For my final project in Web Design for the first semester I created a Christmas Website. This website explains the traditions, songs, behaviors, foods, and much more about Christmas and the holiday season. Using all of the skills learned this semester this website was a final reflection on all of those skills, using them to my advantage to create a fully functioning, six page website.       This website was very easy to accomplish once we created our format website that we also used for the Real or Hoax project. By changing the color schemes, content, and moving some html code around to reformat the sidebar, I was able to easily finish this website in no time. Most of my content was gathered from other websites as I wanted the most accurate information about the holiday, making sure to link them in the bottom of each page. To find my functioning website click HERE .

Semester Projects ONW: 1 in 2000       This project was one of the first projects we did in Exploring Video. The subject was to capture a story about one of the many students at ONW. I completed this project very easily and quickly, due to the fact that we didn't need any B-roll for this video and was instead a straight interview with the interviewee. I faced little to no challenges with this video except for a few technical difficulties with the SD cards that we later fixed. As this was one of my earlier videos, I came into the video process with almost no knowledge of how to operate the camera or Adobe Premiere. With that I learned how to film and edit my videos. I was given feedback such as: cut out the :"bloopers" at the end of a professional video, move the camera so the subject of the video isn't looking directly into the camera, and fixing jump cuts. We moved on instead of re-editing these videos because they were some of the f...

    The concept for my second feature story was to interview and see what being a kindergarten teacher was really like. I would do this by taping some classroom functions at Scarborough Elementary School. My narrative lead explained what Stephanie does at Scarborough, how long she has taught, and why she got into teaching. It really helped set up my video and transition from each interview.     I interviewed Scarborough Elementary teacher Stephanie Herl and what her job entails. My second interview source was her husband E.G. Herl. He explains what he does to support her in her job and daily life. They complimented each other because E.G. goes into the after hour support for her job and some of the hardships she has within teaching kindergarten.     When I originally shot my video it was planned to be a feature story about two girls on the Olathe East Drill Team. This was very difficult of course because both the girls go to different schools and have ver...