This week my web adventures included a training in Adobe Illustrator. I met with some other students in one of the labs on Monday night. Similar to photoshop, Illustrator was simple at first but has wide creative potential. Learning the basics was fun and exciting. Now I can confidently use Illustrator to create graphics for reporters who have stories that lead to or need more visuals on the web. During my komu.com shift, I can use Illustrator to boost up the online content of any of the news stories. I learned how to make bar graphs to visualize important data, as well as create maps or other labeled images to further explain important information.
My komu.com shift at the station went pretty smoothly. We were extremely busy because the students who worked before us somehow managed to incorrectly crop all of the images for the web and unfortunately posted them resulting in terrible errors on the website. So my job quickly became clean-up. My co-worker and I had to resize and repost all of the images for the dayside reporters, which was good practice, however we had the nightside reporters to do as well. Luckily due to the Olympics, the newscast was pushed back to 10:30 pm so we had a little more time. I assisted sports in capturing the Mizzou basketball game-we beat TEXAS! YES! I also edited and posted video from the newscast for the reporter's stories. It was a busy night. Next week my goal is to make an Illustrator graphic so stay tuned...
Links to the stories I posted/produced
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