Students Serve While Learning
The Media Arts students took on several projects for the college recently. The Graphic Design students worked on posters for Assessment Week, Communication Day, the annual Student Art Show, Media Arts courses of study (to send to high schools) and Graduation reminders. Eric Aguirre did an amazing poster on graphic design and illustration. Made to look like a comic book or graphic novel, it’s wonderfully engaging. Jeniece Toranzo made a companion poster for motion media (digital filmmaking and animation) that is visually compelling and powerful, as well.
M.K. Racine has been working diligently for over a month on the creating downloadable PDFs on ALL of the programs at Mesa Community College. She’s done a fabulous job! I’m incredibly excited to know that students and community members can quickly access information on programs without having to drive to campus and wander around to find a printed brochure. I’m hoping this means interested individuals can get information immediately (and THEN come to campus to talk to instructors and advisors). M.K. also produced both the Communication and Assessment posters!
Media Arts Filmmaking Students (there are over 20 students involved) are working on Video Spotlight Promos on a variety of careers available on campus. Student producer/directors set up the shoots, student videographers captured footage, and student editors are putting the promos together. The real standouts thus far have been Jeniece Toranzo, Lindsey Black, Michael Montesa, Carlos Espinoza, Gina Puma, Pam Bowman, and Stephen Shelley. My son, Alec Hart even worked as a videographer on one of the shoots.
Heath McKinney has almost turned himself inside out getting a dual-language DVD ready for the Spanish-speaking market. He, Ross Ingle, Jeanette Roe and I recorded the absolutely fabulous Sherrie Soria doing an informational presentation in Spanish. We’re trying to finalize the edit. We’re struggling with silly things (like how to hide the holes in the wall where I removed the clock from the wall). Originally, we had hoped to have it ready for an on-campus presentation on Friday but we’ve finally conceded that we’ll have to mail them next week. Regardless, we do have a Spanish-language DVD for the school … AND, it’s ready to be used NOW … to support enrollment for the fall. You gotta feel good about that. Kudos to Heath and Ross for super-human effort.
We’ve shifted into our final couple of projects. A Chinese-language DVD/CD and an interactive MCC promo CD. Oh yeah, and the Zambia project.
