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UCF Creed Site Design

In my quest to make everything I can at UCF better and nicer, I recently decided to tackle the CUF Creed site. The site only displays the UCF Creed (a small collection of statements) and a page of discussion points for professors. I attempted to adapt the styling to the normal UCF template, streamline the display of the tenets, and write some custom CSS to style the blockquote of the main Creed statement. I found an older, seemingly-professionally-produced video about the Creed, uploaded it to our SDES IT YouTube channel, and embedded it opposite the tenets.

This site was developed proactively in Notepad++.

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Order of Pegasus

Order of Pegasus is a program that recognizes outstanding students at UCF on an annual basis. I still haven’t actually figured out who runs this program (it seems to change every year), but given that printed materials are already created for the event, I decided to design a much nicer site that utilizes these existing assets.

The site displays the thumbnail and name of each in the Order, opening a Fancybox (lightbox) with a full portrait for each individual when clicked. The full program is included as a PDF and the site is largely driven by typography and these thumbnails only.

Pictured above is a before-and-after of the site designs. This project was completed proactively with jQuery, Fancybox, and Notepad++.

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Time Management Orientation Short

At UCF Orientation, the office of First Year Advising and Exploration (FYAE) displays a short presentation about time management and suggested techniques for students. My team was asked to assist in ripping a DVD to retrieve footage (it had been recorded right on the DVD); after discovering it had been burned using a proprietary technique, I suggested simply re-shooting the video with our Viera camcorder. Being the enthusiast videographer that I am, I asked permission to direct and edit the production to completion.

The completed video is displayed above and was edited entirely in Premiere Pro.

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DJ Sets

DJ Mix: Lighthouse

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Tracklist

  1. Enrique Igleasias feat. Pitbull – I Like It (Jason Nevins Radio Edit)
  2. Kylie Minogue – Get Outta My Way (Bimbo Jones Club Mix)
  3. Timbaland feat. Justin Timberlake – Carry Out (Soundpusher & DJ Rock City Remix)
  4. Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire – Ghosts N Stuff (Extended)
  5. Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce vs Metallica – Enter Telephone (DJs From Mars Club Mix)
  6. Fedde Le Grand feat. Mitch Crown – Rockin High (Benny Benassi Remix)
  7. Kylie Minogue – All the Lovers (WAWA & MMB Anthem Remix)
  8. Eiffel 65 – Move Your Body (DJs From Mars Club Mix)
  9. Example – Last Ones Standing (Extended Mix)
  10. N.A.S.A. – Whatchadoin? (Villains Remix)
  11. Benny Benassi – Spaceship (Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney Remix)
  12. ATB – Could You Believe (Original Mix)
  13. Bob Sinclar – I Feel For You (Anthony Ross and Lazy Rich Remix)
  14. N.A.S.A. feat. Kayne West – Gifted (Steve Aoki Remix)
  15. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (Chew Fu Club Mix)
  16. Ciara feat. Ludacris – Ride (La Riots Remix)
  17. Example – Watch the Sun Come Up (Moam Remix)
  18. Talisman & Hudson – Leaving Planet Earth (Dousk Remix)
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DJ Mix: X

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Tracklist

  1. [Intro] Ray – A Song to Help You Keep Your Job
  2. Sneaky Sound System – Lost in the Future
  3. BT vs. The Doors – Break on Through
  4. BT – Knowledge of Self
  5. Kylie Minogue – I Believe in You (Mylo Vocal Mix)
  6. Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden – Bonkers
  7. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me
  8. Paul Van Dyk – For an Angel (Dave Darell Remix)
  9. Michael Mind – Baker Street
  10. Groove Armada feat. Stush – Get Down
  11. Cascada – Evacuate the Dancefloor (Cahill Remix)
  12. Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil’ Wayne – Let It Rock (Serafin Remix)
  13. Ian Carey Project / Lisa Miskovsky – Get Shaky (Rawdirt Remix) / Still Alive (Benny Benassi Mix)
  14. Groove Coverage – Because I Love You (Elektrofachgeschaft Mix)
  15. Pryda – Europa
  16. Basic Element feat. D Flex – Touch You Right Now
  17. Tiesto and Sneaky Sound System – I Will Be Here (Tiesto Remix)
  18. Herve feat. Plastic Little – Cheap Thrills
  19. [Outro] Ray – Peace
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SDES IT: Training Video Series Introduction

Once the SDES IT Training site idea took off, I was asked to develop an introduction to play before each video series; I was told to “think of it as branding,” but because the video clips were hidden from the public, I sprinkled in a bit of creativity to bring something to the typical, non-technical, and often overly-comfortable end-user that they wouldn’t expect, in the hopes of waking them up and making them think. It was eventually widdled down to an ineffectual, five-second clip.

The (original) introduction above was shot entirely on UCF campus and edited in Premiere Pro, with compositing effects done in After Effects.

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DJ Sets

DJ Mix: Verge

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(Photo © http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepsi11295/3630105327/)

Tracklist

  1. Camille Jones vs. Fedde Le Grand – The Creeps (Fonzerelli Remix)
  2. Tiesto – Dance4Life (Fonzerelli Remix)
  3. Supermode – Tell Me Why (TV Rock Remix) / Kylie Minogue – Wow
  4. Kate Ryan – Ella Ella L’a (Bodybangers Remix)
  5. Sneaky Sound System – Goodbye (Goodwill Darley St. Remix)
  6. Oliver Moldan – Beauty in L.A. (Seven Eleven Edit)
  7. Pnau – No More Violence (Club Mix)
  8. Delerium – Angelicus (Morgan Page)
  9. Benny Benassi – I Love My Sex (Pumpkin Remix)
  10. Wink – Higher State of Consciousness (TV Rock and Dirty South Remix)
  11. Vinylshakerz – One Night in Bangkok
  12. Cicada – The Things You Say (Dirty South Remix)
  13. Black Box vs. Benny Benassi – Everybody Everybody
  14. Tiesto ft. BT – Break My Fall (Richard Durand Remix)
  15. Benassi Bros. – Castaway
  16. The Rickrollerz – Never Gonna Give You Up (Radio Edit)
  17. Bob Sinclair – Rock This Party
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Personal Work

Enginehead: DJ Dr. Thunder (April Fools Video)

One day at the Sentinel, I pitched an idea for a joke video about my busted, old Civic for an April Fools joke. One weekend I took home one of the Canon’s and shot a bunch of ridiculous footage of me in aviators acting like a caricature of the typical interviewee in our weekly videos. I followed the workflow as closely as I could, creating a photo gallery, a video, a fact sheet, and a billboard image. Our marketing team got an ad buy from Honda to correspond with the video post, and we launched the video on April 1, 2008.

The video was shot with a Canon GL1 and captured and edited in Premiere Pro. Graphics within the video were created in Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Enginehead: Video Intro Slate

Our introduction slate for all Enginehead.com videos was pretty outdated, so I offered to do a new one with newer footage from our videos. This was the result! Pretty happy with it. Video arranged and edited in Premiere.

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Orlando Sentinel: Enginehead Interview Videos

As part of my position at the Orlando Sentinel’s interactive group, I was tasked with creating a weekly interview-style montage video of a local car enthusiast and his pride and joy. In most cases, I was responsible for: recording the footage of the car, B-roll of the car driving, and the interview; micing the interviewer and capturing the audio; photographing the car and the individual for a photo gallery to accompany the video; identify the 10-15 best photos, edit them, and post them to the Orlando Sentinel’s CMS; and capture the audio and video, edit it together on an Avid or Final Cut machine, and post the video to the CMS.

I have many examples of this work: here are some links to the above-mentioned material.

All video was edited in Avid, Final Cut Pro, or Premiere Pro. All photos were edited in Photoshop.