STA Blog

LAITS Student Technology Assistants collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts faculty and administration by re-imagining their instructional and promotional projects with a creative use of video, audio, web and graphic design. STAs learn technical skills on the job with LAITS development studio staff. They build presentations, produce audio/visual works, scan text documents & perform image correction. STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for instructional technology projects used to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

TD Segment Slides

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Along with Theater Makers, I made a couple of mock-ups for slides that will appear between segments

The first one is called “Theater in the News”:

And the second is “Final Thoughts”:

Theater Makers Update

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After receiving feedback on the mock up of the actress for theater makers, we went and made a mock-up of how the set/stage will look

This is the original stage image we used to create the mock-up:

I began with an outline the original stage image in illustrator:

 I also outlined the figures in illustrator and placed them in scene:

Once we created all the outlines, I placed the full color figures in the theater:

Then added labels and the audience members:

And this is the final we sent to the clients:

 

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Here is the image I created for the fridge in the Kitchen area for the RUS videos. It’s meant to look like a child’s drawing of a few stick figures and an airplane. I copied the assets I already had from Adobe Animate and put them into Photoshop with the paper texture and added a filter to match the cutout style of the rest of the background.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2017/06/15/20542-2/

LRC Trifold Draft Update

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The latest draft of the LRC trifold is shown below. Most notably, I added a gradient to the artwork so that the image faded into the background and reformatted/added a graphical element to the “Each lesson includes” list. After receiving critique from Suloni and Bethany, I updated the LRC trifold to include orange in the color scheme and small formatting details. I also tried using a peachy hue in place of the grey, though Suloni and I agreed that the grey was better fit (the peach version can be viewed below). Currently awaiting feedback.

 

Outside:

Inside:

Peach version: