The Snapper (print design)

I was an active member of our campus newspaper The Snapper for almost my entire time in university. Starting as a staff writer in 2017, I worked my way up the editorial board, eventually being voted in as editor in chief for the 2019-2020 academic year. As EIC, I also redesigned our website (thesnapper.com) from the ground up using a WordPress template editor. This gave us more freedom to create more multimedia projects, made the site run much faster and gave the website a modern look.

Below are some of the best pieces I worked on and coordinated during the 2019-2020 academic year. The first is the March 2020 magazine we published right before the world shut down. I produced most of the visual components of the magazine, including the front and back pages, inside material (the welcome pages), and the colored “section” pages. Our editors worked incredibly hard on each of their individual stories, and I only supervised and edited the layout/content for those.

Click here for an entire catalog of the paper layouts I coordinated as EIC (all the ones I worked on are under Volume 96).

Web Design

Website and Font Design Project - Typography II

This project incorporated using HTML and CSS markup to create a simple, scalable website from scratch. I decided to use an “emo punk” style for the website because I felt it fit the style of my typeface. We designed our typeface earlier in the semester and had to design a website with it as the focus. I chose to use the “welcome” banner to proudly display the block-y aspect of the typeface.

The “building in” nature of the typeface was fun to make, and I also exported it as a separate GIF. Overall I felt the project was a success. The website properly responded to resizing, had a modern look to it and showcased the typeface well. This is one of my favorite projects I worked on during my final semester at Millersville.

Audio/Video

1 Minute PSA Project - TV Production 1

I created this video (along with my group members Abby and Sean) for the 1 Min PSA project for TV Production 1 at Millersville University during the Spring 2018 semester.

For this project, we had to create a full storyboard and script, along with completing research on the topic the PSA was about. We worked in Avid Media Composer to organize the footage and edit the video, and supplemented with Pro Tools for audio design. We chose the environmental theme because of the aspects of campus that worked well with the idea: it features a pond in the center of campus, multiple streams where we could film the bottle moving and a creek at the edge of campus perfect for the last shot.

Overall, our group was happy with the final product. Looking back on it, we should have tightened up some of the edits and worked on the beginning sound design a little more, as the pacing and audio is a little awkward.

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Classic to Contemporary Project - Art 143

This piece was created by Jared Hameloth to turn a classic piece of art into a contemporary format. The idea behind this video was to transform the original intent of cave paintings into a venue of modern entertainment.

Cave paintings, such as those found in the Cueva de las Manos, were used to train and initiate young, usually male, members of the tribe into hunting parties. The drawings of the different animals and patterns are thought to have been hunting strategies for these groups. Young people no longer need to hunt for their food, but there is a modern experience that emulates this same idea: first person shooter video games. This recreated cave is styled after the Cueva de las Manos, but includes elements that show a video game character selection screen styled as a cave painting.

Since these cave drawings were one of the first ways in which humans documented information, I wanted to transpose them into one of our latest ways in which we view documented information: virtual reality. This emerging technology encapsulates seeing something as if you are actually there, but allowing the creator to add in digital elements such as flickering to recreate the light of a torch inside a cave, as well as the sound from that fire.