As I mentioned in my previous post, I am currently involved in 4 video projects; 2 of which are finally done. This semester I was enrolled in a class called “Video in the Community” and I have been working with a group of people to create a video for the North County Food Bank (San Diego County). The objective of the video is to help the Food Bank attract more donors, suppliers, and volunteers. As usual, I am posting my handy work below, but I cannot take all the credit, my group was awesome and they made this project a breeze; thanks Kevin, Heli, Patrick, Heidy, and Stephen.
With graduation approaching (May 19th), I have to say that I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. In addition to the presentations and papers due for school, I am also working on 4 different video projects, two of which are for school, not to mention trying to look for a job in this economy. Anyway, this semester, I was one of three lucky students to be selected as paid video production interns by the Communication department at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). The purpose of the internship is to produce four short videos for the school’s website that highlight various aspects of the school and hopefully attract more students. My two partners and I have chosen to swap roles for each video, however, since we have at least 2 cameras per shoot, we end up overlapping roles all the time (we have all shot video). The only job we don’t really overlap on is the actual editing because it is difficult for us all to do the editing and it is just not practical. I edited and worked camera for our first video, which focuses on a couple of the research opportunities offered by CSUSM. One of the reasons I was so excited about this internship (aside from getting paid) was that I knew I would have the chance to put my newly created dolly to good use. Check out the first two videos below.
Recently, a client asked me to design a logo and menu for her new restaurant: “La Pizzeria Factory.” This was not the first time I have done graphic design work, but it was certainly the first time I spent so much time on a project like this because I wanted to get it just right. She sent me a detailed description of what she wanted with a few examples of generic pizza logos that she wanted me to draw inspiration from. I created over 25 variations of the logo with different borders, background colors, and fonts. In the end she ended up choosing the design that I liked the most, so once that was decided I got to work on the foldable menus. Check out some of my handy work below.
Sebastian Maselli 