Capstone Presentation...CHECK!

It's almost over! This week Pamela Marlowe and I presented our broadcast capstone presentations to Broadcast faculty, fellow majors, and friends.

I feel like this was an eye-opening experience for almost everyone there because I don't know how many people actually realize what I have been doing this semester. A lot of those in attendance have no idea what my internship at WPXI entails or that I designed a media guide for my father's baseball team, so it was nice to show off some projects and experiences that others don't seem me doing on a daily basis.

I also enjoyed debuting my website which showcases all of my work from sales to graphics, as well as my DJ and news work. I have a few minor adjustments to make on the website, but in general it's a great tool for me to use to market myself for employment and keep a record of my college portfolio after my time is finished at Westminster.

One step closer to completing my coursework and 21 days until graduation, I am pleased with my personal progress and accomplishments.

A JOB!

It's official folks, I have a job after I graduate! I have taken a radio sales position with Cumulus Youngstown selling time on HOT 101 and Rock 104.

I'm very excited, and have already started preparing for the position. First of all, I will need to move to the area, so I've been looking for apartments. More importantly I have been gathering sales materials that I use for research and presentations such as documents from my RAB Radio Marketing Professional class as well as the book and notes from my class in Broadcast Sales and Advertising on campus.


However, the most satisfying and ironic occurence about the search for a career was what happened when I came in for the meeting to determine whether I would take the offer. After I had signed some paperwork to come on board with the stations, another general sales manager I met previously came in to the market managers office. He jokingly asked if I had sold anything yet, and the market manager said, "She sold me." This is such a coincidental statement considering the title of capstone presentation this week "Selling Myself...It's Not What You Think."

I'm very eager to finish up my career here at Westminster, and extremely thrilled to know that the hands-on experience I have had has lead me to a promising career.

E-Portfolio

This week was spent getting my e-portfolio ready. This was exciting because I got to use my artistic side to make the portfolio pleasing to the eye. On the left you can see a rough draft of my "directory" for the portfolio.

It also means that I needed to update a few parts of my resume that I may have been neglecting the past couple months since I've been concentrating on sales and graphics. On Friday, I recorded my morning newcast because it was resume worthy and definitely blows away my current resume newscast. I've also recorded some of my DJ on-air work and plan to do more of that this week to update that resume.

I need to definitely get some still pictures of my graphics over video for my resume together, which will also help to finish my television graphics resume as well. Below are a couple examples of graphics in my portfolio. It's a lot of work, but I think this will be something I'm very proud of when I'm finished.

AHHHHH!!!!

This week has nothing but hectic, and trying to piece together my capstone presentation. Good thing I was somewhat ahead when I started this week, because I barely could accomplish anything between job interviews and planning Relay for Life next weekend.

However, I did have time to get all of the elements to my marketing portfolio together including the ad you see to the left for the Wright Place Hair Salon. I am getting my graphics work together which is a little more difficult because I was told to get some of my graphics from the actual footage so I've got to figure out the dates on a lot of things.

I have also put together the invitations for mine and Pamela's presentations with some photography help from our roommate and some minor Photoshop adjustments. The invites will be sent out next week.

To be honest, though, I really won't be thinking too much about my Capstone presentation this weekend because I will be on the SGA sponsored trip to Chicago. But you never know what pictures I will take that could turn into my next Photoshop portfolio piece!