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A Place at Elon: Rudd Field

This is a sequence of still videos showing Elon University’s Rudd Field. As part of a class assignment, I shot all the videos, and edited them together using Adobe Premiere.

Kindness Poem

For this assignment, the class recorded themselves reading this poem. Then using what I had learned about Premiere, I cut the recording together to include everyone speaking at least one line. After, I mixed in music, a sound effect, and ambient noise to make the sound more interesting. The assignment was designed to show us how to do the basics in Premiere and how to adjust audio levels. We also learned how to use voice recorders and adjust our levels on there.

Product Labels

I recreated two product labels as part of the Photoshop assignment. Both are meant to be able to be cut out to fit on  Coke and Gatorade bottles, respectively. I used layer masking, text layers, layer groupings, and shapes to recreate these labels to the best of my ability.

Magazine Covers

As another part of the Photoshop assignment, I created two magazine covers. The Elon related cover features a photograph that I took at a softball game and real events in the world of Elon athletics. The knitting magazine is meant to emulate a real magazine of this style. Both covers use layer masks as well as many text layers.

Collages

To get more familiar with Photoshop, I was assigned three collages of three themes of my choosing. I chose my favorite movie franchise, favorite artists, and one of my favorite cities. I used layer masks and text to create these collages.

An Event

For a photography project, I took photos of an Elon Softball game against Campbell. The shots consist of photographs of the participants, detail shots, and wide shots. I used a Canon G-15 for my shots.

Portraits

For another part of a photography project at Elon, I was tasked with taking two candid and two staged photos of people. The three people in the photographs are friends that were gracious enough to volunteer as my models. I used a Canon G-Series camera.

Three Objects and a Location

These photos were taken as part of a project to help me learn how to properly expose, frame, and take a photograph. I used a Canon G-15 camera. The three objects are my cello, a pillow that I knitted myself, and a necklace that I wear nearly every day. The goal with the objects is to use the principles of design: unity, emphasis, and perception in my compositions. The location is Sloan Hall at Elon University. With the location, I did some wide, medium, and detail shots of the inside and outside of the hall.

Favorite Food

This is a post of my favorite food: Quinoa.