August 23rd, 2010

I got the job working with Seminaries and Institutes in the Church Office Building. It will be a great adventure to move to Salt Lake, etc. I'm glad I have a husband who is supportive and helpful in regards to my job hunt and in moving everything to a new apartment. I'm grateful he is by my side.

I wrote up my review paper for the Visual Art office:
Where do I begin to describe what I’ve learned while working as an intern for BYU Admissions

Services? I have to say that I had no idea what it would be like to work as a designer for someone else. All throughout school we’ve designed for “companies” or “clients” – but it wasn’t a REAL work environment. When I say REAL I mean co-workers, a boss, different assignments, real deadlines and presentations, critiques of your work from non-artists, and many other things. First off, I have to admit – I was blessed to work in an LDS environment. Not many students get that opportunity for an internship or a job. When I requested the internship, I wasn’t quite sure what I would be getting into. I assumed I would be designing brochures, working on websites, among other little jobs. What I got was a little of the above in addition to a set of 4 presentations that would be my project for the next 4 months.

BYU admissions is responsible for organizing and producing a CES recruiting presentation called
the BeSmart Fireside. They not only present to students all around the United States and Canada, but Seminary and Institute personnel, high school counselors, and other’s concerned with helping students gain higher education. Originally, I was asked to design a template for each of the five CES entities (BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, LDSBC, and Institute). I did so and figured that each school would complete their own portion. I assumed that I was done with that assignment two weeks after I started. How very wrong I was. What started in April, has continued well into August with me being the main designer for each school. They send content and I put it together. Those presentations have been through 50+ revisions. At the beginning and obviously as a designer, it was extremely hard to hear “take that part out, we’re adding ____,” or “Can you change_____”? It felt like everything I had worked on for weeks
was going through the shredder. There were days that I would have to step outside of myself and realize that this project is NOT mine, it’s ultimately theirs. I am here to do what THEY want me to do. That was hard for me to grasp at first. I cringed when we’d sit down to run through it because I knew I’d walk away with 20-30 edits on my 100 slide presentation. There were days that it hurt.
As time has progressed, it was that factor that I thrived on. I live on criticism now. With each run through, I ask over and over, “Is there something else you’d like to see?,” or “Please don’t hesitate to give me feedback on what you’d like.” I’ve learned, that’s how my work gets better and better. My ideas and their ideas working off of each other equal much more than the sum of adding our individual ideas together. That is called synergy. I would often say that to my supervisor, James. We would work on a design for the new BeSmart website and I’d throw an idea out there, he’d critique it and hone it, then we’d talk about how to improve it and modify it together, bouncing ideas off of each other throughout the process. I found that I prefer to work with others, rather than on my own. That was a discovery that I hope I will take with me wherever I go, designing or not. I want other’s feedback on how to improve something I’ve done. As much as you may love your design, if you can’t reach those you are trying to communicate with, you’ve failed. Feedback enables you to know if you are communicating clearly and
I think my boss, Kirk didn’t really take me seriously when I asked to accompany him to the
meeting with all the CES schools in Salt Lake. He said he’d bring back the notes on what they wanted changed. I don’t normally argue with people, but I did that day with Kirk. I wanted so much to sit in that room as they went through the presentations – to hear their thoughts first hand. To discuss with them what THEY wanted it to look like or communicate. After a few hours, I finally convinced him. That was a turning point for me in the internship.

After that trip, Kirk would ask me if I was coming to many of the following meetings. I ended up
getting to go on a trip to Springhaven for 3 days with the CES institutions. We reviewed the
presentations, sat down and made edits right then and there, played games, got to work together on higher levels, among other things. Just this past week, I accompanied Kirk to Salt Lake to attend the presentation they put on for Seminary and Institute personnel at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

While running through Institute’s portion before the presentation began, the director of their program mentioned that if I was looking for a job, they would hire me to work at The Church Office Building. After the presentation, I had an impromptu interview with his boss. Had I not pushed that first meeting to attend and be a part of how things were working, I don’t think I would have been at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building that morning.

I have learned to be assertive, but kind and hard worker while interning here. I have learned
to be a team player and to take criticism productively. It has been a great blessing to me. I cannot say enough about my experience and the numerous things I have learned. What a blessing it has been to intern with BYU Admissions.

August 19th-20th, 2010

Had another meeting with Tom, Jacob, and Kirk about the BeSmart presentation. We revised the BYU portion - adding a video to the "Most Notable Advantages" as a "surprise" when Daniel presents for the BeSmart fireside in Sugar City, Idaho. I updated everything. Sent it out to everyone so they could practice before the presentation on Tuesday. I loaded the presentation on Kirk's Computer and on a flash drive for him to take.

August 18th, 2010

Met at 6:00 in the morning to go to SLC with Kirk, Daniel, Mark, Tom, Esther, the interns, etc. We met with all of the schools again. We set everything up, had breakfast, socialized a little. I was asked to make some changes to Institute's presentation and the director, Brent said, " If you were looking for a job, I'd hire you." and I said, "that's funny- because I am looking for a job."

We set an interview up that afternoon after the presentation.

This is not ironic to me. There are too many "coincidences" in my life to say they are just that. I feel like I've worked hard - and that Heavenly Father knows who I am. Events that lead up to this are tender mercies that I hope I have acknowledged appropriately to my Father in Heaven. I will add more on this later.

August 17th, 2010

Again - making changes, running errands to the Hinckley Center to get the presentation down loaded on Daniel's computer. I downloaded the presentation on Kirk's computer and on a flash drive so that we would have backups. Set up a ride situation to get to SLC... it was a busy day.

August 16th, 2010

This week we are preparing for the Seminaries and Institutes Articulation conference at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. We had a meeting with Tom, Daniel, etc and resolved some of the changes that needed to be made.

August 13th, 2010

Got back from Springhaven and made changes on the presentation. Additionally - did Travis's last presentation for psychology.

August 11-12th, 2010

SPRINGHAVEN!!!

For three days I have been up at Springhaven ( up Springville Canyon) with the different CES entities. We had meetings all day long, then played in the evenings (baseball, volley ball, frisbee golf, race car driving, and board games, etc). We reviewed all of the presentations, and I was able to sit down one on one with each entity and review their presentation and make changes. It was really nice to have that opportunity - I wish it was one that we could have done more often. I know they expressed their gratitude for that opportunity.
It was all around a great event.

August 10th, 2010

Tuesday was hectic - I finished Travis's section 6 presentation (videos and all) and also finished his CES review with lots of updates, etc. The presentation looked great and I was happy to be able to help with getting things presented correctly. I got everything finished and onto the laptop and a flash drive just in time for us to head out to Springhaven for the next few days!

August 9th, 2010

Today was another CRAZY day. There were lots up updates on Travis's presentation for the CES 2010 review. I also started his section 6 presentation for his psychology class. I was still waiting on the video from one CES institution - which was pretty frustrating. It's good to be prepared - and to do things when people ask you to do them. It's hard to say "no - too late" when people come to you with an "update" days after you say the final is due.

I'm going to work to be sure that I don't do that to others.

August 6th, 2010

Today was the day James coded and added the new BeSmart home page. WOOO!!!

We had a few trial and error things, but ultimately came up with this:

The buttons darken as you scroll over them... and the "Apply online, Check Application Status, and Sample Application" links underline. This is a fabulous end product.
I'm glad I've had the chance to work on it with James. It has been a great learning experience.

Side note: Today I'm reading the "Don't make me think" book again.
I'm also updating a presentation for Travis. woo!
Never a dull moment.

August 5th, 2010

Wowie! This morning I sent out all the rest of the videos and presentations (12 videos and 4 presentations). I have yet to hear back from anyone, though I suspect that I will get a call fairly soon regarding Institute. We added some slides to their presentation and I'm not sure if they'll like it. =P

After I sent everything out - I had time to work on the BeSmart website again - WOOOO!!!! FINALLY! James and I have been throwing ideas back and forth regarding the website design and layout. It has been fun to play with ideas of, "Do we use a vertical or a horizontal picture?", " If we do a horizontal picture, where do we place the buttons?", "Which buttons are most visited and how do we set those apart from the other buttons, but still leave them similar?".... there are lots and lots of questions to ask. While I don't mind designing on my own, I prefer to work with someone else - to toss ideas back and forth. Ahhh- synergy.

I guess you'll want to see pictures, huh?


These were our last two options... we asked for different people's opinion and got some great suggestions. Again with the synergy! I love it!

August 4th 2010

Whew! Today was a whirlwind! Everyone is preparing for Springhaven and it's C-R-A-Z-Y!

I love working hard.

I worked a bit on the presentations, and on besmart (website) with James. We've come up with a few designs that work pretty well - but there are a few kinks to work out. As usual - I'm amazed at what happens when more than one person works on a project. Synergy. That's what happens.
If you don't know what that means - google it.

August 3, 2010

Whoo! Impromptu meeting and lunch with the Admissions Director, Associate Directors, and a few others. It lasted 3, yes THREE, hours. A good portion of the time was spent on whether or not to use an admissions "pie chart" to portray how BYU considers students for admission. We talked about timing with each presenter and the differences with each school. I got about a page and a half of notes to update on the presentation, many of them just different perspectives on wording.
We developed a great addition to each school to enhance the humor and fun of the presentation.

It has been a great learning experience to sit in and review things with people who have been doing this for a long time. They are honest and clear (most of the time) with what is going on. Plus there was pizza - that didn't hurt at all.

August 2, 2010

Today was hectic. Lots of meetings, lots of edits, lots of suggestions. I like days like today because I feel extremely productive. I met with Travis and ran through his psychology presentation. The videos were acting weird again. Sigh - the repetitive problem.

July 30th, 2010

Got feedback from other schools. In my last post I talked about getting feedback. I should probably clarify: I enjoy feedback when it's legit, clear, and kind and he's generally pretty good at suggesting things that need to change or could be better. I appreciate that. There is one key factor that is key that is sometimes lacking. Positive feedback before the criticism. Just a thought.

July 29, 2010

Editing, editing, editing. I actually really enjoy editing at this point. I feel like I have a clean product to present to people. The changes are minute and are generally tweaks to the animation or trial and error with the videos. It feels good to get this far. I actually love hearing feedback from Mark, James, and Kirk. Weird - I know. They are just good at being positive and then asking if _____ could be revised or changed. I really appreciate their input. It makes the whole product better.

July 28th, 2010

Met with Kirk and Mark again today to review changes and see if there were any additions to the presentations... We now have 2 versions of each presentation. There were a few changes and updates that needed to happen. I thought I would have mastered inserting video by now, but I haven't. There are always little quirks that come up and I have to resolve them. I should probably google each problem as it comes up and see if I can resolve it from happening in the future.

July 27th, 2010

Finished the section 4 presentation for Travis this morning. The video worked fine after i downloaded it a few more times (?!?!). I have NO clue what happened to suddenly make it work, but I'm glad it did.

I have been toying with ideas for the BeSmart presentation lately - Thank you James for being patient with my many projects! Here are a few: Starting with my original and showing some play with color, lay out, etc. We will not be using the picture of these students. We're waiting for pictures from Mark to use in their place.

July 26, 2010

I have never been good at keeping a journal, a blog, or anything like unto it. I did a pretty darn good job at the beginning of my internship - keeping up with it almost daily ( I say almost - because some days I went back and would do "yesterdays" and "todays" in one day). However, since the 4th of July - I have been quite off on journaling this whole experience. Here's another dive into journal keeping.

Today I did a full presentation for Travis. I struggled again with the video download and upload into Powerpoint - which is frustrating, I thought I had nailed the problem. Apparently I haven't. Tomorrow that is on the top of my list of things to do.

July 19th - 22nd, 2010

This week was spent working on presentations for Travis, the BeSmart website design (a little), the BeSmart presentation, and the two articulation presentations. It has been eventful to say the least and I tracked down a new video for BYU to use as part of their presentation. It is a lot more appropriate for all audiences, I feel. I met with Kirk a few times to run through things and have been e-mailing back and forth with people from different schools, arranging, updating, and cleaning their portions of the presentation. My goal was to have the presentations sent out on Wednesday for each school to look through, BUT - a few hold ups prevented that. As it turns out - I was finally able to e-mail all three presentations to each school on Friday afternoon. Whew! It sure does help when people follow through with what they say they will do. It's funny ( and a wee bit annoying) to experience the effects of someone taking more time than is expected or asked to do that.
oh well. I guess I do my fair share of that as well. Just something to think on.

July 14th - 16th, 2010

From Wednesday until Friday - I mostly worked on the Besmart presentation and the articulation conference. A rep from LDSBC came in to review the work we've done on their portions of the articulation conference. That was good. He talked a little about doing some free-lance work for LDSBC in the future. That made me feel really good to know that he would consider me for some big projects. We'll see what happens.

July 13, 2010

I FIGURED IT OUT!!! ( the video that wasn't loading correctly) - I should probably rephrase that. I didn't figure out what was wrong - I just tried it one more time and it worked. lol. I wish I knew what the original problem was so I could avoid it in the future. Nevertheless - the video made it into the presentation about 40 minutes before my deadline! That was cutting it a little too close! whew!

July 12, 2010

Today was Psychology presentation again - I loaded a bunch of videos for Travis and have three of the four taken care of. The fourth one I have downloaded MANY times and it still won't load up on the powerpoint the way I want it to. It will open and then give me a white screen. Hopefully I can figure it out tomorrow!

July 9, 2010

Worked on Travis's Presentation again. I met with Kirk and Tom to go over the articulation presentations and the Besmart presentation. We went through and made some good changes and edited the content for time. Added a few t-shirts to the presentations and I think it's really coming along!

July 8, 2010

Started on Travis's 2nd section of his Psychology class. Had meetings about what information he wants where. It's good to meet with the person you are doing work for often so that you are both on the same page. I can not say it enough: COMMUNICATION IS KEY!

June 7, 2010

Finished writing questions for the CES Articulation Conference. It needed to be something that invited the viewer to learn something that wasn't in the presentation. I think I did a pretty good job:

July 6, 2010

Back to the BeSmart website again! This time we decided it would take too much time to do the WHOLE re-furbish of the BeSmart website... but an update is still needed. We talked about options for the Church Schools. This is what the original looks like right now.....

Today we came up with something like this:

July 2, 2010

I will be out of town today - my husband and I will be taking Friday- Monday off to go to a Family Reunion in California!

July 1, 2010

I can't believe it's July already! What in the WORLD?! So my projects for today consisted of fixing up the presentation for Travis - adding more videos and text. Kirk asked me to add a few more things to the articulation presentation. I will add 2 "trivia" pages to each school.

June 30th, 2010

Worked on the Psychology presentation for Travis. Downloaded some software that allowed me to download movies off of youtube. I wasn't able to import those into Powerpoint, so I had to down load another prgram that would transfer those movie files into MPG files... THEN I'd open those in Windows Movie Maker and edit/transfer them into WMV files. (whew!)
Here is a video I worked with: ( hehehe)

June 29th, 2010

Started working on a presentation for Travis. He will be teaching a psychology class for a university in SLC, and needed me to put together a presentation for his class. We met for about an hour and reviewed his material. He will be using several videos- which makes me excited because I haven't used movie editing software much.

June 28, 2010

I received an e-mail today from the BYU-Idaho reps about their portion of the articulation conference presentation. It's funny- when you work so hard on something and then someone says "We liked it better the way it was." aka "you didn't need to change anything about it". To me it just feels heavy and out of place. It's funny- with design- there are people who like your work and those who don't. I understand - I can relate - I have an aunt who is a chef. Most of her food is great. Some of it, though, I could pass on. Art and design is the same way.
Sigh - you have to work with other people's opinions or well, they don't want to work with you anymore. It's good to learn how to communicate clearly and kindly so that others don't feel threatened or odd about their ideas or suggestions.

June 25, 2010

Today I touched up both the PowerPoints - yet again.

June 24, 2010

Mark visited me at my desk today again! We finished the edits and really cleaned things up. It's incredible to see what has changed since I started. I couldn't have done this on my own - that's for sure! Having additional "eyes" looking for things to edit is how you find everything. I'm so grateful!

June 23, 2010

Today I went through the articulation conference presentation to make sure everything is uniform and that we have all the updated information. I e-mailed each of the CES schools to find out any changes or updates they want for their portion of the presentation. Yesterday James and I looked at the pro's and cons to doing a chart vs. a time-line to display the dates and deadlines for admissions:vs

Thoughts?

June 22, 2010

Today Mark came over to help me edit the BeSmart PowerPoint. It is SO helpful to get other people's perspective on how things should be worded ( not that it is my job to word things - it's Mark's). We accomplished a lot: cleaned up the BYU-H portion and made sure everything is uniform and up do date.

June 21st, 2010

Worked on designing the new Besmart website again today... Lot's to do - just not sure where to go with it yet. Kind of like writer's block for design... hopefully it passes soon.

I edited the BeSmart Presentation with some edits that were e-mailed to me from BYU-I. I'm so glad that I have other "eyes" to help me edit. Looking at the same thing over and over gets old and I don't catch everything. Wahoo for team work!

June 18th, 2010

Helped gather edits for a website and created some new pages for the Articulation conference presentation.

June 17th, 2010

Read through a lot of the internal resource - kind of a slow day.

June 16th, 2010

I helped another of the associate director's to put together and clean up a powerpoint presentation today. It's nice to have people come to me with problems and be able to quickly fix them.

June 15th, 2010

I got in this morning and James said that Kirk e-mailed him the 3 First Presidency videos that we had been looking for. I wasn't sure how to go about getting something out of the archives and into digital format... let alone how to edit video for powerpoint. I originally had Daniel helping me to locate and format everything. But - WE GOT THE VIDEOS!!! YAY!! It turns out that the Institute rep got them and edited them. WAHOO!!!
I love tender mercies.

June 14, 2010

Again we are editing the internal resource. woo!

June 11, 2010

Kirk took the BeSmart Presentation to a big meeting with the other admissions directors for the CES institutions. He came back and told me this morning that they were all impressed with my work and that they appreciated working with me. WHEW!!! That makes me feel more confident in my ability to interact and receive feedback. I have learned a LOT about critique and working with other people to come up with a presentable final product.

June 10, 2010

We have been going through to correct errors in an internal resource for our division. That will take quite a while. It's literally reading through each page and looking for grammatical, policy, and content errors. Not much to talk about.

June 9, 2010

Today I worked on the BeSmart powerpoint just a tad. I added this guy to it:
I also put together a quiz for a training meeting.... exciting I know..

June 8, 2010

Edited a few pictures; corrected lighting and adjusted levels. Transferred the presentation to Kirk's computer for his meeting on Thursday. Hopefully everything goes well!

June 7, 2010

I edited the presentation today. Not too exciting. Worked on a Organizational Chart for the Admissions Services Office. woo!

June 4, 2010

I must brag a bit - I did not understand the organization in Photoshop very well when I started. I think I'm starting to really get the hang of it now!...and whether or not someone else can understand my organization within photoshop is besides the point. =)
James and I talked about ideas for a new BeSmart website. Something more clean and simple... It may or may not happen, but it's been a great opportunity to play in Photoshop and combine different ideas:
I browsed through a few University Websites to find good navigation and organization. This is what we decided would work best ( as you can see by the tabbed mock up above):

MIT's nav is not that fabulous:

Neither is the U's ( ...lots of random navigation. A patron would not know where to look first, second, etc. A lot of mumbo jumbo all over the place.) Really... did you expect any thing else?

June 3, 2010

The BeSmart Website was on the docket today... I worked on revising a lot.. but ended up totally revamping. I really like how clean the Mac design is. No confusion with what you are supposed to be looking at. With that in mind I played with ideas.

Here are some samples of an opening screen for the website:
Which do you like better?
1

2

The animation will move to the side and a website description and a list of options will appear:

Once you select an option here is what will happen - for Application:

For Church Schools:

Then within Church Schools, BYU is selected:

I know it doesn't look like much, but I worked realllllly hard on it today! Not sure if we'll actually use it - that would be a TON of work to redesign the WHOLE thing (plus James has a TON on his plate already)!

It's fun to play with though!

June 2, 2010

This is a bit of what I did on Wednesday at the office. It doesn't look like it would take that long, but it took me a long time to get to this. I originally wanted a reflection of the web page below it. Once I got that done, it looked funny... so I started over. It's odd how often that happens - I'll have an idea - design it and then think - "That just looks weird" or it doesn't flow. So I start all over again. It's best to get a good design - even if it takes a few tries.

June 1, 2010

Memorial day weekend was wonderful (three-day weekend). Today has been good. I arrived this morning to an e-mail from BYU-Hawaii with great additions for their portion of the presentation.

I edited and added them to our template:

I added Katy's picture here for BYU's Most Notable Advantages:

May 28, 2010

Today I worked more on the front desk manual. I pulled up the maps for our building in photoshop and labeled the offices that we most frequent. I cleaned up the "hidden" slides from the presentation, and e-mailed a co-worker to get started on the videos that we need. I'm getting a little antsy about that. We have three that need to be located and edited. Yikes. I also read a lot in "Don't make me think" by Steve Krugs - the book that James has asked me to read. I'm on chapter 6 so far. It's been really informative and quite amusing. I would highly recommend it!

May 27, 2010

Today the full-time staff were out at a retreat/meeting ... so the students were the only ones in the office. I updated a few minor detail items on the presentation and then worked with Katy on the Training Manual for the Front Desk. Kinda boring, but that's what we've done!

May 26, 2010

Today was a little slow with the presentation. I cropped a lot of pictures - The First Presidency and some of The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. There are a few quotes that we use in the presentation and I wanted a nice picture of each of the speakers to accent the quotes. I nit-picked a little as far as font and size/ placement and capitalization,etc is concerned. I also created a new slide that will transition between a video clip and a list of tips we are presenting to prospective students.

May 25, 2010

This morning I dealt with some e-mail issues. It's interesting how something so seemingly small, like not being able to e-mail, can really put a damper on what you need to do. I'm still sorting it out, hopefully everything will be back to normal tomorrow.

I spent a large chunk of time trying to figure out why photoshop was creating a pixelated image after using the vanishing point filter...

It make my image look like this:(really mixed up lines at the top)

I ended up just cropping two images together to come up with this:

I didn't solve the problem in photoshop, but I resolved the short-term graphic problem. Whew!

May 24, 2010

Today, again, I have been working on the BeSmart presentation - cleaning, updating info, and re-doing graphics that aren't as strong. I'm also working on scheduling an appointment to take pictures of Cosmo the Cougar for one of the slides.

This photo looks clear - but if you click on it you'll see how pixelated it is:

I added a U.S. News Article to BYU's Most Notable Advantages:

Added Pictures to the Most Notible Advantages for schools:

May 21, 2010

Mission: Revamp the Presentation. removing slides, adding videos, editing slides for content and design.... annnnnd a whole lot more...wow.
It was really interesting to hear the feedback from the different directors in the meeting on Thursday (20th). It was hard sometimes to keep my mouth shut - when they would comment about design or ask for something to be changed (in a way that wasn't visually pleasing,etc). But really? My job is to design what they want in a way that THEY want... not what I want. So. That is what I'm doing (with occasional comment on why I did what I did or why what they want isn't the most beneficial visually). I'm learning.

May 20, 2010

I spent my morning on the 20th here:

This is the LDS Business College.


I spent an hour in traffic on the way up to Salt Lake and from 9:20-2:00 in a meeting reviewing the ins and outs of the BeSmart Presentation. It was a great learning experience to see how those meetings are run, how decisions are made, and what changes need to be made in regard to content and design. I have a lot to learn and I'm really glad that I had the chance to attend ( I may have begged and pleaded with Kirk to go...). It was a great opportunity to see the "client's" view of my work and what they want modified/removed/etc. I'm glad I had the chance to go.

May 19, 2010... Apologies

Wednesday the 19th of May was hectic because it was the day before the Be Smart Committee meeting (aka- my presentation is reviewed with lots of head people for all the CES schools). So - the "blog/journal" got put on the back burner for the past little bit. I did revisions, spent time adjusting videos for each school and saving the presentation to several different thumb drives/computers so that we'd have them just in case something happened. Whew. I stayed late and it was a crazy day.

May 18, 2010

Today we added a TON of slides (not sure how that cuts back on time...etc). Here is a sample of the ones I've added today...

May 17, 2010

Today was just a lot of clean up... Making sure things are all formatted the same way,etc. For example: the BYU Student Activities page - making sure the pictures all have white borders around them, etc. Not much to talk about, but a LOT of cleaning. =)

May 14, 2010

Today I received the editable version of the BYU-I presentation. I edited that a little (though the original designer did a great job - so I didn't have to do much). I also have been organizing pictures into folders,etc for all the schools/programs. That has been tedious, but rewarding.

May13, 2010

Today I have done a lot of random things. We figured out what was wrong with the BYU-I video (why it wasn't playing in the Powerpoint yesterday). It was an mpeg2 file rather than just an mpeg- which will play in the presentation. Now it works- and I have learned a little about formating of documents.

I also played with each school's layout for the opening slide. Here is BYU's orignial opening slide:

This is the next one. I like it MUCH better.

James and I reviewed the presentation with Kirk again today. He wanted to add a title to this slide. It used to have the dark bar along the left, but we changed it to be a horizontal bar along the top. This is one of my favorite slides. not because of the actual design (because really? it's not that special), but because of the animation - when the "Animation (Student Emmys)" comes up the little boy appears and the bull bounces down from the top bar. I just think I did a clever job on it.

This next screenshot is of another amusing slide. Each line comes in on a click... and then the last one comes in (it says, "Your Girlfriend" ) and the picture appears. This one was not my idea... thought I developed the layout.