One Year Anniversary of My Graduation

On 05/11/2013 at 10:32 AM by Super Step

Well, graduation day at my alma mater is today,so here's a bunch of pictures I took in college, and some videos.

Judge away, I know they're not the greatest, but considering I had relatively very little experience beforehand with any of this video technology stuff and had to rent it out to use it at all, it's decent right? Right? Ok, well, here ya go anyway.

Since it's Mother's Day tomorrow, here's the ones mom has framed around the house (did not request them to be, but she used to work at a framing store and had access to the portfolio book I left at home, since these were all taken my Sophomore year and left at home):

Ones I like the most:

And here's some news packages with my voiceover, some I worked with my buddy Kyle on (he graduates today), others I did from start to finish:

This first one I did entirely myself (bastards only uploaded this one to Youtube, my first project over the new dorm I was working at as AHD for was fine, dammit :p oh well)

Note: I know the prof is out-of-focus, my fault for not checking; there's probably a few bad production mistakes here and there in these videos, but I'm not going into massive detail unless you ask and what to know something about how these were made. Frankly, I was just glad to have them done. This class was rough (yes, these are like two-three minutes long, no that's nowhere near the amount of footage we shot for them, and editing in Final Cut on a 98' Mac tower with every student's titled projects on them is a slow process...)

Note: Austin is the friend I visited a couple weeks ago. He's currently getting his Masters degree.

Ones I worked on with Kyle, with my VO:

Note: We may have went a couple times to get more um ... footage; yes, that's it.

With his VO:

There were more things we did in that News Techniques class, but they're either not easy to just copy/paste from Youtube, or I'm not really inclined to put them here.

I also acted in a few student projects, shot, acted in, and partially wrote a few fictional things, and created a few websites in iWeb during my college "career," but those I'm not posting for much the same reasons listed about the other news packages in my previous sentence.

Well, there you go. That's part of my college portfolio, in honor of my one-year graduation anniversary.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/11/2013 at 11:45 AM

Congrats man! I never went to college. I was kind of a troubled student in high school... But I envy those who went to college.

Those pictures are nice.

Super Step Contributing Writer

05/11/2013 at 12:05 PM

I don't know if you'd envy me in my current situation all that much, but I thank you.

Aboboisdaman

05/11/2013 at 07:50 PM

Happy anniversary Joe! Nice work too. Man I need to go outside more lol. I don't got any Cheer though.

05/11/2013 at 08:51 PM

Lol, yeah that one was an advirtisement shot for one of the projects. Thanks. :)

Halochief90

05/11/2013 at 08:26 PM

Happy anniversary! I get my degree next month. Looking for a job is the part that worries me.

Nice videos too. They feel like authentic news broadcasts.

05/11/2013 at 08:58 PM

Yeah, the job hunt is the painful part. My advice would be if it's a degree like mine, get an internship (still feel not doing so was my biggest mistake), I'm actually wondering if I'll sign up for an internship class even now, and if it's something like History, seek out a teaching cert, but if it's more practical like accounting you should be fine. At least I got a job in my field, even if it's a bit slow.

Thanks for the compliment on the videos. They're not the best, but I honestly think they're better than some of the ones I've seen from the Lufkin news station many students go to once they graduate. Of course, that's not really comparable, since they have to pump out content every day, and we were whiny brat college kids that had these due every week or so often, but still, I'm proud they actually look like news to some extent. lol

Alex-C25

05/12/2013 at 12:18 PM

Damm, that's a very nice picture of a guitar.

I only have one or two years before entering college..... And I still don't know what should I study.

05/12/2013 at 09:19 PM

Yeah, that is a picture that uses a technique called painting with light, basically you set your ISO really high, have a long exposure time, and wave a light (in this case my cellphone's) in front of the camera, and it leaves an after image like the one on top of the guitar.

Two years is a long time, but I say accounting. Don't follow your dreams, they just make reality seem disappointing. I kid, but seriously think about something you wouldn't mind doing the rest of your life and go with that, but be thinking about what happens once you graduate throughout your college career (what I mean by that is "for God's sake, go into accounting so you have a job"). Or start now.

NSonic79

05/12/2013 at 02:06 PM

I wish I had a fancy camera and youtube during my graduation. No way I'd judge on this, you did more than I ever could during my time.

05/12/2013 at 09:25 PM

I wish I had a fancy camera that I actually owned; and I could find more of my work on Youtube; I regret not being more adamant about requesting DVDs; but then I forgot to send one or two, so I guess that's karma. lol

Thank you for the very kind words, but I'm sure if you had a fancy camera, you'd do just fine.

PixlBit