Today's teenagers have an attention span of eight seconds. Today's teenagers apply to more colleges than ever before. So how does a college capture these young eyes among all the emails and letters from other colleges across the country? Simple. Give the college pamphlet a reboot. Colleges need to recreate the pamphlet that fits the 21st Century,... Continue Reading →

In PR 321, Public Relations Writing with Prof. Erin Wilgenbusch, we were told to create a communication piece that would assist students like ourselves with course 499, the Greenlee School Internship Course, in 48 hours. This internship course is a required class for all PR, ADVRT, and JLMC students at Iowa State University. The brochure,... Continue Reading →

In PR 321, Public Relations Writing, we were given the following instructions: There are four components to your final project for University Museums: news release to announce the 40th anniversary year (for release in January); Tagline to be used on 40th anniversary materials; 5 suggested blog topics for a University Museums blog; A social media... Continue Reading →

In PR 321, Public Relations Writing, we were given the following assignment instructions: Please write a 500-word feature article for publication in the Iowa State Daily. Your audience is ISU students. You may choose from one of the following two topics: Fall Fashions or Staying Healthy This Winter. You can decide the format you want... Continue Reading →

Every Tuesday and Thursday in JLMC 354, Advanced Electronic Media Production, about ten students created, produced and aired a T.V. news broadcast. A rotation was created for students to have the opportunity to see work behind and in front of the camera. Positions included Producer, Assistant Producer, Anchor, Co-Anchor, Weather, Sports, CNN, Graphics, and Readers.... Continue Reading →

In JLMC 354, Advanced Electronic Media Production, each Tuesday and Thursday a class of about ten students create, produce and air a T.V. news broadcast. Below you can find one of the two shows I produced. Many of the news readers were also written by me. A rotation was created for students to have the opportunity... Continue Reading →

In JLMC 354, Advanced Electronic Media Production, each Tuesday and Thursday a class of about ten students created, produced and aired a T.V. news broadcast. A rotation was created for students to have the opportunity to see work behind and in front of the camera. Positions included: Producer, Assistant Producer, Anchor, Co-Anchor, Weather, Sports, CNN,... Continue Reading →

A semester long project at Iowa State's Strategic Planning for Advertising and Public Relations class. Dr. Gang Han was my professor, and he used a "learning by doing" philosophy. Below you can find a PDF of the entire project, an executive summary of the project, my best sections of the project, and the pitch presentation. The... Continue Reading →

Iowa State University's JLMC 308 class, Electronic News Gathering and Production, with instructor Jeff Ames was an experience-based course. Using Final Cut, a Canon AX10, my resources on Iowa State’s campus and a some seriously witty scripts one video package was created every week for class. These packages included a voice over, a sound on... Continue Reading →

My first video package for Jeff Ames' video class at Iowa State University. This video package includes roll obtained by Mr. Ames for the usage of teaching students the basics of FinalCut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIwjOYsxyY4