Week 13 - Last Week

This week was my last week interning with the Tallahassee Democrat. Here are my ads:

Week 12

Here are the ads I produced this week at the Democrat:














I was also asked by Chris Counts to write a paragraph on my experience as an intern at the Tallahassee Democrat. Here is that paragraph:

During my time at the Tallahassee Democrat I was responsible for designing and proofing flash advertisements for the Democrat's web site. This included designing graphics (though many graphics were provided), creating animations, editing HTML, and some action script. I was also responsible for creating coupon and splash pages featuring static ads and/or printable coupons. The most important lesson I've taken away from my experience at the Tallahassee Democrat is that you often have to do things you don't like to please a client. The most important thing to remember in a creative position is that the client is always right, and that can be difficult to come to terms with. It is better to just accept that fact than struggle with it. As far as technical skills learned I would say that working with Flash regularly has made me much more familiar with the features of the software in addition to speeding up my production time. For future interns I would suggest giving them a wider variety of jobs to do.

Overall I feel that my time at the Tallahassee Democrat was very beneficial experience working with people, and very good practice working with Flash and Photoshop. Additionally, my personal computer at the Democrat was a, previously foreign to me, Apple Macintosh. For me, working on a Macintosh system has been a learning experience of itself, as I had spent the previous 23 years of my life working solely with Windows PCs. Being able to work with different operating systems is an important skill in the digital design and development fields, and will serve me well in my future.

Week 11

This week I decided to speed up production to make up for last week. Here are the ads I produced this week:

Week 10

I have been fighting a pretty severe case of the flu this week, but I did manage to make it into work today (Friday) to produce a couple of ads. Here they are:

Week 9

Week 8

Four ads from this week:

Week 7

This week was a slow week. Here are the ads I produced:



I also designed my first sliding billboard ad for Business and Professional Women.



http://jewlee.250free.com/BPW_SlidingBillboard2.swf