Jake's e-Comm experience

I worked very hard on preparing Media Day for the class, getting the times and place set up, as well as preparing the coaches and players for the interviews. Media Day has been my primary area of focus for this week.

The reporter is for NBC news, and it is clear that they are very experienced in creating quality feature stories. She starts off the story by telling the viewer what they are watching the video about and then showing video of the area and the new stadium. She gets multiple interviews with people who have been affected by the project, as well as the Falcon's owner. The video describes the effects of the new stadium and the new jobs created by it. There are very few issues with this video. It is produced very well and the footage is of high quality as well. One potential downside is that the reporter only interviews people who have been positively effected by the stadium. There may not be any people who have been negatively effected so that could be a reason for only interviewing the positive people. This story is a good example of a well produced feature story and there is much to take away from it. The shots, interviews and voiceovers are well executed and I can implement those...

In the article, the reporter clearly states the facts, and is short to the point. He quoted both sides, and represented the claims of Golden Knights and  Athlete Ally. He included the pictures of the tweets, giving support for his claim. The reporter shows little bias towards either side. However, where the reporter creates a short and to the point post, he also provides little information that furthers the conversation. Reporters are taught to elaborate further on the subject and he does not create more discussion past his black and white facts. I have written very few stories on reports this year, but if I were to create more written stories then I will implement skills shown in this post. I will provide the straight facts, with no bias, but still formulate more conversation past the facts. 

Technology This aspect of e-Comm is huge. We are constantly using technology throughout our entire lives, and when working on projects for e-Comm we are always utilizing this technology. It wasn't something we had to "learn", because it comes natural to my generation, as we have grown up with it. Technology is so vital to everything in the world today. We use it to communicate, use it for commerce, use it for negotiation, to spread ideas. There is no part of our lives where we are not surrounded by this tool we use in our everyday lives. Collaboration As with technology, we must utilize this skill in order to both succeed academically and professionally. This is a skill most people grow up with, but for some they must be forced to collaborate in order to master it. It is important the same way that technology is important to our lives. Without it, the very world we live in would fall apart. Collaborating with each other allows us to spread our ideas, shape them, ...

Projects  I completed three big projects throughout the course of second semester in Video Production. They included: Music Video, High School Trailer, and Short Film. Each project had different specifications and due dates/ deadlines. Music Video This is the first project we completed in second semester for Video Production. It took roughly three to four weeks from beginning to end. We remade the Runaway music video by Kanye. Our main challenge for completing this video was the amount of people we needed to complete it. The original video used around twenty ballet dancers, but because we can neither have that many people taken out of class nor can we take the amount of time to find that many dancers, we went with a smaller number of eight. We then had to get an adequate setting for our music video shoot, so we went with a combined music room/courtyard setting. We learned that creating a full three minute production took a lot more work than we anticipated, so we had to ge...

This is my brand new and improved Index Web Page! It was very easy and uncomplicated compared to some other projects I've completed this year. It was made using the pre-made Grid templates within Dreamweaver. Once I had selected the template, I just had to add in my content and colors and it was finished! Using the template was very helpful because it came already equipped with all of the coding and css, as well as responsiveness on multiple devices. One of the downsides was the inability to customize and design the layout of the page, but with the page being so easy to put together with the templates, the pros of it simply outweighed the cons. I can imagine that professional web designers would use more and more templates such as this one because it is so easy to fill in. All of the coding has been worked out and there are zero to no bugs with the code. All in all, this was another very successful project completed on schedule!

This project was like most web design projects so far. Create a website and upload content. Except for this website, we created the main design within photoshop, allowing us to use the text within the photoshop as buttons in the actual website. This is the "Present" page within my website, equipped with a scrollbar so that you can look at all the content within the page. Click on the picture so that you can view this website.

     Responsive Web Design is so important for the very reason that more and more people are accessing sites from mobile devices rather than desktop computers. Responsive design is the act of websites conforming to the size and platform of every device and not just computers. Pre-Fixed CSS Here is my website on a mobile device before I switched the coding and css over to make it responsive so it could fit within the screen. Post-Fixed CSS Here is my website on mobile after switching the coding and css, but for some reason the main content within the page still got cut out. I looked through my css and couldn't find any reasons for this but one possibility could be that the original was overwriting the new css and uploading the pre-adjusted code. Responsive Site on iPad mini This is my site on an iPad mini. As you can see all of the content fits within the page using media queries in order to override some of the desktop coding allowing the content t...

      Responsive Web Design  is the belief that design and development of the site should respond to the user based on orientation, environment, and platform. This has become increasingly popular due to the increased amount of people using mobile devices over the past 5 years. Media queries are media modules used to render and adapt to screen conditions such as screen resolution. Break points are the different sizes and variations of screens allowing the page to fit on them without cutting off parts.      As you can see I've used the Apple website to provide examples on good uses of responsive web design. This is the full screen window size for the Apple website. As you can see the top bar has all of the options on it as well as the advertising that runs across the bottom. This is half screen for the Apple website and while it still has the top bar with all of the menus and the advertising on the bottom...

             What Was The Assignment?      The assignment before Spring Break was to pick a High School trailer and recreate that trailer shot for shot as good as physically possible. If the trailer happened to have a shot that was impossible to shoot such as a skyscraper shot or something high up in the sky, it was ok to not have that shot in the video. Fortunately we didn't come across that problem when shooting our trailer. What Was The Process Of Creating The Trailer?      After choosing the movie we wanted, which was 17 Again, we went into our pre-production work. We had to make the scripts, the storyboards, cast list, copyright information, and concept board. After creating all of those we went into the production side of the process. We had about one day of solid footage and another of good editing because our time management was not good. What Wa...

     Adobe Flash appeared in the late 90's, showing promise to revolutionize the internet and how it looked and was used. It was considered to be its own genre of tool used on the internet, something unseen before it. Capable of running games or animations and accessible to everyone who ran Flash Player, until that very player became a liability to anyone downloading it. The complexity and closed format of Flash eventually led to its demise. Because Flash and Flash player are being allowed on less internet formats, it makes it increasingly difficult to preserve.       When Steve Jobs in 2007, chose not to support flash on the new iPhone and discredited its very existence because of the use of HTML5, it has been in steady decline since. He says because it was "resource-intensive and insecure" it was no longer needed because of the growing use of HTML5 and JavaScript. This was a misconception by much of the tech community because HTML is a markup text...