BNN Commercial Assignment

        For this assignment, I made a 30-second commercial for our on-campus news show Bulldog News Now. It is important to the South Carolina State University Communications program that we keep students, faculty, and alumni up to date with SC State sports, campus life, and even surrounding areas. Everyday it is our mission to gain more viewers

BNN helps students that are in the Communications major improve in different areas such as broadcasting, journalism, media, and more!

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Creative Lighting

For this assignment, we used creative lighting. With creative lighting, we want to try to focus light on different parts of the face.  

This is an example of flat frontal lighting. In this picture, you can see that the lighting is focusing on the model's whole face. 

In this picture, One side of the model's face is dark and the other half is highlighted. This is an example of split lighting.

This picture is an example of Rembrandt or 45-degree lighting. In the photo, you can see the model's nose creates a shadow on the face 

Here we have the model making his "scared" look. In the studio, we cut off all lights and used a cell phone flashlight to cast a small amount of light under the model's chin. 

Three Point Lighting

 For this assignment, we were to use the Three-point Lighting method, which would involve three special lights the fill light, backlight, and key light. Each light plays an important role when it comes to photography, especially studio photography. We brought our model, Juan into the studio and placed him on the stool 

This photo is a wide shot using no lighting for the model. You may see a little lighting in the studio but that's just natural lighting from the window. 

This is a close-up version of the model not using any lighting. As you can tell, there isn't anything that is highlighted on the model's face. Again, the lighting that you see is natural lighting. 

In this picture, you can tell that his face is somewhat highlighted now with the background being dark. In this shot, we were using the key light and fill light. 

In this picture, we were using only the key light. As you can see only one side of the model's face is highlighted

This picture is an example of what using the backlight looks like. In this picture, the model blends in less with the background now that we are using all lights.

This picture is a wide shot of what the model looks like using all lights

Reflector Disk Use

 

For this project, we were to use a reflector disk to see the difference in the lighting when using and not using the reflector disk. We brought our Reporter, Sharlene Luke to see the difference in the lighting using the reflector disk and also without using the disk 

Here is what the lighting looks like without using the reflector disk! You can tell that Sharlene's face has no highlights or glare on it. 

 This is the result of using the reflector disk. If you can tell, there is more of a highlight and glare on the reporter's face!

This angle is behind the reflector, this angle is showing how the sun is reflecting off of the disk and how the disk is positioned to get the right amount of light on the reporter. holding the reflector disk is Sylvester Brown.  

This is a shot from behind the camera showing how the camera is positioned for the reporter. 

This photo is a wide shot of the reporter, reflector disk, and videographer showing how everyone is positioned. 

5 Question Interview with Delano Whitfield

For this assignment, I interviewed SC State's student, Delano Whitfield. I wanted to get insight into who he is and what made him choose SC State. Whitfield is a Communications major with dreams of becoming a motivational speaker and a poet. Whitfield chose the Communication major because he felt it fits best with his profession. Delano Whitfield then says that after he receives his degree he wants to pursue the dreams of motivational speaking and poetry. 

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Person On The Street

This semester has not too long started and we have the largest class of freshmen in SC State's history. I assumed that even upper-class students were looking forward to homecoming and athletes are looking forward to the football games with cheers from bulldog fans. For this project, I went around campus to interview 5 students to get insight on what they were most looking forward to with us being 4 weeks into the semester. During interviews, most students are looking for the homecoming game, homecoming itself, and the football season itself. 

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30 Seconds About Me

Here is a video of me telling a little about myself in 30 seconds. 

I am a Junior at South Carolina State University. I am a proud member of the Beta Delta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. My major here at South Carolina State is Broadcast Communication, I plan to work in the News industry to be a News Anchor/Reporter. Later In my career, I plan to work in public relations to be more involved with the community around me. My hobby at the moment is fashion. I love to thrift and make vintage and streetwear pieces of clothing into nice outfits.

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