CONCEPT DESIGN AND MEDIA PRODUCTION

Written, Directed, and Produced by Elena Sanchez of Beta Gamma Xi (CT State Community College, Middlesex ) and its members won two Regional Awards: (1) Elena Sanchez won First Runner Up Fine Arts Award for her work "Beyond Skin Deep", a Public Service Announcement video that was part of the Honors in Action project completed by Chapter members last year & (2) Beta Gamma Xi Chapter won Three Star Level Award.

This 60 second reel showcases all the masters' forms and breaking abilities from seven different locations throughout the state of Connecticut. They are all originally from Korea, and have come to start their new lives as teachers, educators, trainers, and coaches. This was shot on location at 60fps to convert over at half speed for the slow motion effect. This was edited in Premiere Pro. The motion graphics were created in After Effects.

This is a 30 second commercial for D'Dario Nissan. This project was assigned in the Motion Graphics course at MxCC. This was the class final for the semester. Edited in Premier and created motion graphics in After Effects.

Town by town highlights of things to see and do, both on and off the Air Line State Park Trail, a 50-mile multi-use trail for non-motorized recreation located along an abandoned rail corridor in eastern CT. The trail is open daily year round and is suitable for people of all ages and fitness levels.

Created in Photoshop, rotoscope & key light in After Effects. Edited in Premiere Pro.

Created in Photoshop and animated in Flash

Created in Adobe Photoshop, animated in Flash, edited in Premiere Pro.

Illustrated 300 frames by hand. Scanned and digitally created & animated in Adobe Photoshop.

This project was assigned in the Motion Graphics course at MxCC. This was project was created in After Effects.

Created in Adobe Photoshop, animated in After Effects and edited in Premiere Pro.

Project created and animated in Adobe Photoshop.

This project for the social media course at MxCC stated to: Identify a topic and cross-reference with Social Media Trends at the present time. Edited in Premiere Pro, and shot with a Sony Handycam HD.

This is a one-of-a-kind slideshow of one of the top photographers for National Geographic. Brian Skerry's photographs of the coral reefs, with a narration by Brian himself.

Elena Sanchez was the producer of the End of the Year video for her second/final year (2015) and made sure the Faculty and Staff who wanted to be involved picked out the movie they wanted to be green-screened into. With the 11th Annual Arts and Media Festival fast approaching the Center for New Media Faculty, Staff and Students decide that this years theme will be "Take it to 11" in this wacky mashup/remix of famous movie scenes. Includes scenes from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Spinal Tap, The Big Lebowski, Star Trek, Gone with the Wind, The Ring, The Shining, Lost, Some Like it Hot, Sesame Street, and Oceans 11. Although we had originally planned to do this year's End of the Year video in 4D . . .after a synchronicity we decided to take a different approach. About a month before the Arts and Media Festival I was telling Rick Eriksen about Ed Werzbicki's Acting II class that my wife was in. Ed was giving Jeannie direction and said she needed to "Take it to 11!" with her character. Rick's eyes lit up and he said "That's synchronistic" My graphics students just handed in their designs for this years Arts and Media Festival Poster and one of them is a volume knob on a guitar amplifier at 11. I was like -"Yeah, like in Spinal Tap- We should replace Christopher Guest in Spinal Tap with one of us using a green screen. It should be easy!" The rest was history although far from easy. Turns out the filming the green screen part is the simplest part. The pre-production that goes into a scene before filming is challenging, including figuring out the lighting, costume, and makeup for the actors. The hardest part was erasing the original actor from each shot. Mostly that was accomplished with Photoshop but in the first Big Lebowski scene because the backplate wasn't static because of street lights illuminating the car as they go by, I had to use After Effects to mask together different pieces of the background. The other tricky part was getting the sound to match when we replaced the dialogue - this meant matching the sound track/music exactly to the original. This project was a lot of fun to put together but took many late nights! I also learned a ton about color correction, creating clean plates and working in a raw format. As you watch the piece you'll see the green screen keeps getting better as the piece progresses. That's because I was learning/refining the process as I went along. This is Lisa Simmons first appearance in an end of the year video. The day we filmed her no one from the department recognized her - all made-up as Marilyn Monroe from Some like it Hot! This is also the first end of the year video to be shot in 24P as well as in RAW format for color correction. Brendan Plake was generous enough to let us use his Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera to film all the scenes with. For such a small relatively inexpensive camera the image it produces is amazing!!

Thanks to Elena Sanchez and Rose Picarelli, a script was created, and production began. The Food Network holds a 100-million-dollar cooking competition at MxCC. The competition brings out the best and worst in MxCC's faculty, staff and students. This parody of the Food Network's show "Chopped" ended the hiatus we've been on. It's been five years since we've done an "End of the Year Video" but since this was the 10th Anniversary of the Arts and Media Festival we decided to pull out all the stops and do something Rick Ericksen and I envisioned years ago - TasteOVision. Thanks to everyone else in the department pitching in and a couple of really late nights of editing we were able to pull this one off in a few weeks. . This is the first "End of the Year Video" to shoot most of the scenes "television style" using up to three cameras at the same time. President Anna Wasescha makes her debut in this video. There's a short introduction at the beginning that explains how TasteOVision works. At the Arts and Media festival we actually handed out 100 "Flavor Trays" to the audience. However, if you want to experience this film in TasteOVision you'll just need seven Jelly Belly - jelly beans with the following flavors in this order: 1. Tangerine 2. Root beer 3. Strawberry Daiquiri 4. Green Apple 5. Buttered Popcorn 6. Cinnamon 7. Dr. Pepper

I volunteered to collaborate with another student to create a tutorial that will facilitate the use of the Chyron Machine, also known as the character generator, or (CG for short). This project would inform prospective students on how to - step by step instructions, to utilize the Chyron for TV and Broadcast Production courses at MxCC.