Each Winter, the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church's youth ministry program has a big weekend event in Gatlinburg, TN. The event draws dozens of youth groups from around the conference and features outside speakers and a band. I serve as the design, worship, and production coordinator for the event, which is exhausting, but fun and rewarding for me. This year, I decided to see if I could learn Apple's Motion software to expand the scope of my video production capabilities. This was the first project I put together with it.

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March 2007

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I redesigned the school's summer programs catalog last year with an emphasis on playfulness and fun. This 24 page 8.5 x 11 piece advertises all of the summer camps and enrichment opportunities that the school offers during the summer. It's a really fun project because it's an opportunity to play around with some quirky, kitschy kinds of layouts, which aren't appropriate for school brochures and annual reports. I also took some liberty with the font selections and colors, straying just a little bit from the school's standard red and blue to go with a more friendly summer palette.

This year's Annual Fund Report was a much more involved project than usual. I had carved out a blog of time in which to complete it, but that wasn't nearly enough because of all the extra articles that were in this year's version. I think there were 8 more pages this time around and because of the visual motif I decided on, with the blocks of pictures of boys and different elements of school life, it took some time to find the right photos (I dug pretty deep into the archives for some of them), and to balance them up.

The image of the horse from our seal on the front and back is actually varnished on the finished product, which is hard to simulate in a digital download. It's very subtle though.

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In addition to the presentation, I created a series of 3 backdrops using the Banner Bug retractable stand system. Our criteria for the design was that they needed to make sense when put together, or if used separately in the school.