Today I got to meet with Andre and talk about the big COLA website revamp that’s going on in LAITS. Specifically we will be focusing on Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP). Not a lot of students/professors are taking advantage of the site, even though many students want to get involved in undergrad connections with professors. Many of the listed opportunities may be outdated and unavailable, but are still on the site. (The oldest are from 2010! I doubt those are still ongoing…) There are also only a few listed every semester, and we’re sure that there are more opportunities than are listed on the site. So what’s going on? Maybe professors and students have different ways of communicating with each other, or use different resources. Maybe professors just aren’t offering as many opportunities as we think they are. Maybe they don’t like the UROP website for some reason. (It does seem a little bland.) So the question is, how can we change the UROP site to attract students and faculty, make it more accessible and user friendly, and encourage communication between professors and students?

Two options for the pre-roll with three and two instruments.

Cleaned up version of the pre-roll with Hellmer’s photo (made blue with variations), and proper coloring.

Final version of the credit roll. Jazz logo watermarked in bottom right of photo, not on bottom bar, Unique changed to Course #.

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Credit-roll draft, including many instruments all in color.

Two options for the credit-roll, one with blue instruments with 80% transparency and one with white instruments with 15%. The lower transparency has 4 instruments instead of 3, but they blend into the background so that the text is still distinct.

Almost final version of the credit roll. Unique # to Course #, Jazz logo in top right, COFA brand in bottom right, instruments color changed.

Final version of the credit roll, which the piano facing the right direction and instruments moved to accommodate the change in formatting.

 

Today I did one of the color correction tutorials and started on the gif tutorial as well. There haven’t been many projects coming in so it’s a good time to get some tutorials in! Hopefully the projects pick up soon though…

This was the first the draft for the new Comparative Literature banner for their website:

I took away the “Comparative Literature” and ribbon and added the different language letters/characters into the patterned line work in the background, varying them in size and color:

Since this major focuses on different literature across the world, there is great importance in the many languages they study so this banner emphasizes the languages more with a few more art nouveau accents:

This next draft is using a base composition of a stairwell photo that was provided by the client. The different language letters are still present but are instead integrated in this art nouveau stairwell composition using jewel tones:

And here is the latest banner in context:

Just finished the live trace tutorial! It’s pretty hard. I like how I got a lot of the detail on the feathers but I think the head looks a little obscured.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2016/10/26/18500-2/

Went through about 100 photos to choose 5 that best fit the five categories for the P2021 page

• About the Development Studio
• Audio
• Video
• Digital Instruction
• Online Course Instruction

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Original template with five sizes that the five photos needed to each be sized for.

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After taking the image and positioning it, I saved for web and devices to only save the specific slices needed. I did this for all five images for all five sizes 4 times each: color, color + tint, black and white, and bw + tint. I turned visibility of the text on and off to see which level of darkness would work best.

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The video pictures– size extra large, large, medium, small, and extra small.

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Template was changed to six pictures. Shown here are Digital Instruction and About the Development Studio in BW + tint and color + tint, respectively.