In the Fall of 2007, I was asked to create a new graphics package for student sports show Cardinal Sports Live.  I created a logo and lower thirds to be used during broadcast on Cardinal Vision 57.

The Logo:

Lower Thirds:

In the Fall of 2007, I took a class at Ball State that did all of the post-production for a film shot earlier that year called "Grove Lake".  As a member of the class, I was assigned to edit the last 20 minutes of the movie with help of a partner.  I learned a lot about video editing and film production during this time.  In addition to editing the film, students in the class were divided into groups to create concepts for design for the film.  Each group was assigned to create a music video, TV commercial, logo, poster, and DVD booklet for the film.  My designs for logo, poster, and DVD were chosen out of all entries in the class to be used for the film.

The Logo:

Logo Features:

• Keeps organic feel of film
• Gives a little insight into movie through goose
• Displays tagline
• Color creates feel of water or the sky 

The Poster:

The DVD Booklet:

The MySpace: 

Because my designs were all chosen, which they didn't anticipate, they asked me to design a MySpace site to go along with the film.  I created it pretty simply with basic CSS and HTML.

www.myspace.com/grovelake

www.rachelnix.com

I created a Portfolio website for myself in December of 2007 to showcase my designs at that point for submissions for internships.  I must have done something right because VH1 Digital gave me the job for that next summer in New York.

Site Features:

• All Flash
• Loader with Progress Bar (although it is a little slow, I'm working on optimizing the project to load faster)
• Unique design featuring all original photography
• Information about me, my resume, and various works
• Audio project radio spots produced and aired on WCRD 91.3fm
• Music Video co-directed and produced for a class
• Flash Game "Arrow Dancer"
• Gallery of Original Photography 

I was asked by the University Programming Board to create a flyer for their recreation of the game show "The Price is Right".  This grpahic was made into posters and put around campus as well as published in the Ball State Daily News.

Over the course of 2007, I created several cool graphics and banners for WCRD.net.  Here are some of my favorites.

As a payment for the brand new laptop my Dad bought me, I agreed to make him a website for his Optometry Practice.  Not a bad deal, right?  After quite a bit of redesigning and issues with GoDaddy.com I finished the simple site.