LINK Internship of Brodie Roy Hall

Thursday, March 15, 2012

March 14th

So today, I started off the day working on Photoshop. I was color correcting a bunch ow wedding photos to be used in a packet for viewing the different venues that DMR offers for ceremonies and receptions. I did this until lunch, then after lunch, I posted a bunch of Locals Day posters around town. Not the most exciting day, but I still enjoyed it.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Tuesday, March 13th

Today, for the second day of my internship, I spent the morning learning and improving my skills in
Adobe Illustrator. Having a professional such as Sarah there to help me with learn this program help immensely. There are so many tips and tricks that she can teach me and is teaching me that I would never be able to learn nearly as fast by doing traditional tutorials because the things that she is teaching are tailored and relevant to what i want to accomplish, which makes a world of a difference.
For lunch, met up with Hank Stowers and we caught up with each other about our internships and I also ran into a few other fellow students and bought up with them as well. Everyones internships sound like experiences of a lifetime.
After lunch, I went up the the college and posted a bunch of College Day posters around the campus. After I was finished with that, I posted some other posters all over the town. Thats what I did today, still loving it!

Monday, March 12, 2012

First Day

So today was my first day working with Sarah Olsen, my mentor. I first met up with her at 9 in the morning and was introduced to some of the people at the Bodo office. We went over some of the things I would be doing to take up the time such as working on proposals or advertisement layouts. I also observed Sarah work on some posters which was cool to see the creation of a piece similar to what I would be creating. I also learned a couple new tricks on photoshop that really help improve pictures of skiing, which will really help me because I really like working on pictures of my friends and me skiing.
A big highlight of the day was that Sarah gave me Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign, to programs that are extremely useful in creating graphics or advertisements such as what Sarah creates and I will eventually be creating so I am extremely appreciative of her giving me those programs. Thanks Sarah!!

Project Proposal

This year, as a junior at Animas High School, I will be participating in the first L.I.N.K. internship. This will be a big step into my career life, as I will be spending three weeks of my junior year learning about something that I am interested in doing for the rest of my life. It will help me determine if I am actually interested in pursuing what I believe I want to pursue. This, in turn, will help me decide where I want to go to college because it will narrow down my college search, which will greatly affect the rest of my life.

For my internship, I will be working with the Manager of Graphic Design for Durango Mountain Resort (DMR), Sarah Olsen. Durango Mountain Resort is our local ski mountain, located about 45 minutes north of Durango. Being on of the greatest tourist attractions of this area, DMR hosts a lot of events such as live music and holiday celebrations, which need advertisements and publicity.

My mentor, Sarah Olsen is in charge of creating and posting all of the posters and advertisements for these events. The way that I obtained an opportunity such as this is actually through my art teacher Roxy McKnight. She knew Sara, and suggested that I approach her with the possibility of mentoring me because of my interest in digital arts. Using graphic design as the medium for these events advertisements, Sarah can offer me insight into the graphic design world and give me a feel for what it is like to have a career in graphic design. This will really help me in my future life because I am very interested in pursuing a future in graphic design or digital arts.

For a project, I will be creating a poster for an event at DMR on the computer, printing it, and posting it around town. As a first step to arriving at the final goal of producing my own poster, I will assist Sarah with printing and posting poster that she created. Then, I will learn about the actual designing and fabricating of the posters. Finally, I will be assigned an event to create a poster for. I will then produce a poster for that event on Photoshop.

For the Exhibition at the end of the internship, I will display my final project along with some of the steps it took to get there and my internship blog.

To prepare myself for this Internship, I have acquired a new computer that is capable of running Photoshop on it. Photoshop will be a great convenience to me during my internship because I will be able to work on designing posters for my project on my own time instead of having to use a school computer or a computer on the site of my internship.

I am assuming that the first week of the internship will be spent observing and assisting Sarah in her work. After the first week, I believe that I will gradually move to working on my own and creating and producing work on my own.

To me, this internship seems to be one that not much can go wrong. There aren’t to many moving parts involved in it. However, if something does end up going wrong, I will have to play it by ear and judge what needs to be done by assessing the situation and the solutions available to me.

Being such a big experience in my high school career, I am extremely excited for it. Not only will I be spending three weeks learning about things that I am completely interested in, but also, I will be learning about something that I might be doing for a future career.