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WEEK10! // Episode 2 in the works!

Hi everyone for last week! It was focused on meeting up with one our classmates Marc Mercado for my episode 2 for my podcast! As said in the past, I plan on interviewing individuals who have competed in high school art competitions! Marc graduated in 2019 and he has competed in art competitions since 2017 and won many of em! I had sent this draft to Keola and Sharla for audio cleaning. I aslo look forward to seeing a cleaned up version and look forward to put it up on my Spotifiy this week! Last episode with a high school was very popular and gotten a lot of of positive feedback from former teachers and peers so Im excited to put this podcast with a college student! Some Aha moments from continuing this interviews is the overall experience and takes they got from competing and seeing how amazing teachers play a huge role in shaping not only one but many students to not only be amazing creatives but young adults. One thing Marc mentioned was how his teacher was implementing competition aspects in the classroom setting which he believed made him strive when actually competing with other students

Here is the link to my Podcast channel: Channel Link to 1st episode: 1st Ep

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SPRINGBREAK! Update // Social Media Spotlight!

Hi everyone, here is part of a spring break update I been working heavily on! As mentioned in the last meeting I have create a series section for my social media where highlighting pass and present high school art competition competitor's and reflecting on their experience on competing in high school and how it affected them. During this whole Spring break I have been in contacts with many high school art competition competitors who has graduated all over the state of Hawaii. So far Ive gotten from Maui, Oahu, and Kauai.   For the highlighting section I have asked them various background questions on their past of competing/high school, their overall takes, and how it impacted them. So far these are the most engaging post of my social media as it gives a lot of depth and REAL insights of past high school students of hawaii and how it impacted them! I plan on posting these once a week every tuesday/wednesday! Here is how the layout looks and various questions I ask my interviewees. Some platforms i am using to interview these people are discord, instagram, email, etc. Its very awesome to see everyones different takes on how art competitions affected them from the competitors, experiences, awards, teachers etc! Below we have our classmate Nadine Castillo and a graphic designer friend of mine Rowell Rabino who is a first year student at UH Maui College majoring in their creative media program! Thank you to both of them!

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WEEK3! Practicum

Practicum Internships: Pele Awards, Skills USA Hawaii, Hawaii Creative Media - STN

My overall experience’s in the first weeks with the remote internship with Pele Awards, Skills USA, and HCM STN has been amazing A lot of these competitions go live within Feb-March, so creating promo and marketing material that utilize my research and to be quick! My overall impression is its amazing to see just the wheels behind each and single competition that makes these competition goes to life! Hopping on different zoom/google meets and meeting teachers and students, industry professionals that come together weekly shows how much goes to work and networking/communication It was also amazing to see how media was organized and documented in the past for continuity such as bleeds, embed fonts, color modes along with learning  strict guidelines of using paid fonts for their brand/marketing. 

Internship Projects

Pele Awards// Advisor Paul Lam - Chair of Pele Awards //  Asked to create social media post that can be more engaging and interactive to get more entries/participants. I got to meet the chair and main marketing/designers for Pele Awards. I had also learned that a previous intern came from KCC, so I had created couple social media  stories and social media work using polls and designed a carousel post highlighting last years College Best of Show using this years theme. This required me to go out and contact these best of show winners, so I had to contact Dave Maluyo from KCC New Media Arts. It was challenge to stay within the brand guidelines to make it look like one person do it and so it looks cohesive and consistent.

For HCM-STN// Hawaii Digital Media Teachers // Advisor: Clint Gima - HCM Board // I met the Hawaii Creative Media team that consisted of  digital media teachers across Hawaii DOE. I was asked to design the annual Hawaii Schools Shirt that students and teachers would wear to the competition to the mainland promoting the STN students from Hawaii. I had to go couple revisions, in terms of placement, scale, and design as I had to include sponsoring logos such as Olelo, Hawaii DOE, etc. They will be competition at Waikiki remotely with other schools across the nation,  the competitors and teacher will have a shirt to rep Hawaii where they usually wear to the mainland.

Skills USA// Advisor Leisha Bento - Skills USA Hawaii State Director// I was asked to create a promo video, I had worked with the Skills USA Vice President who is a senior at the school I work with to compile a shot list, we had filmed sequences for a video to be used in the welcoming orientation of Skills USA competitions this week. Through the video I filmed the vice president of Skills USA board who is a senior on Maui, along with communicating the other members who were on Oahu. It was very difficult as working remotely to get clips from other individuals across Hawaii. 

Progress/Working Deliverable Projects:

Pele Awards: Social Media Stories + IG Post highlighting college best of show HCM-STN: Promotional Competition Shirt for Hawaii Competitor Skills USA: Screengrab for Promo/Welcome vid

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/creative.adolescents/