Today I found out that the PSA won in the 30-second category and is going to be aired on the public TV channel! We also won $500 to spend on video equipment for our school. This is extremely exciting for me and for the rest of the people involved. No details on when it will air but I’ll keep you posted.
Credits: The commercial features my friends Danielle Valdes and Sam Matthew. Danielle created and wore the newspaper dress. Dan Roth helped with production. Kevin Kiriluk and Sam Halleen also contributed. Music is by my friends and school band Hale Eddy.
In my Advanced Advertising Arts course, I was given one week to put together a video that would be shown to students at my district’s junior high schools to promote the series of courses offered in Room 111, one of the art rooms in Ward Melville HS. I used footage from a promotional video I put together for the Advertising Arts course, footage I was able to get from a former Yearbook student, and new footage filmed by myself and my friend Andrew Visconti. Graphics were created by Justin Suazo. The music is by El Ten Eleven and was used with permission.
I produced this how-to video about getting granite off of a countertop for Howcast.com. They provided me with the animations and voiceovers and I shot the video.
One of a series of nine posters I made to promote myself senior class president. Click "View Full Article" to see the whole series.
When I was running for senior class president one of the things I was most excited for was the campaigning. Even if I didn’t win (and I didn’t) I wanted to have one of the more memorable campaigns that Ward Melville HS has seen.
The first portion of my campaign was the posters. I recruited my long-time friend Joseph Morelli, who has a ton of experience with art, to create an original painting for use on the poster. Happily agreeing, Morelli painted an all-blue painting which I took into Photoshop and manipulated the painting into nine different images, each a different color. I added text to each of the posters that explained my platform. I hung up one poster a day for the eight days leading up to election day and on the day of the election I hung up a significantly larger poster that was Grayscale and simply said “Vote Jeff!”
The second part of my campaign was a video that aired as a prelude to my speech in the auditorium. The video’s music was inspired by a trailer for Where the Wild Things Are and I replicated the edit of the Arcade Fire song. The text animation at the end of the video was made by Jordan Michnoff.
Was the campaign successful? Although I didn’t win, it was a ton of fun and people appreciated it…and, looking back, that’s what really mattered. Besides, I was later was elected the Vice President of the Student Government.
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