Victoria Nece

My mom has a website!

Tuesday, 11. 25. 2008  –  Category: News

This weekend I helped my mom get her website up and running. I’m quite happy with how it turned out. We’re both using Wordpress, which should make it easy for her to update and me to troubleshoot if necessary.

I really like the theme we chose, “modern” by Ulf Petterssen. It’s clean and classy and shows off her work (she’s a colored pencil artist) extremely well. And I think I’ve given her enough plugins to make adding images — and even video! — a snap.

Setting up her site (and doing a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff to mine) has me wondering, though: if I adjust my layout, what should I change?

Proposal Design: Setting the Right Tone For the Film

Tuesday, 11. 11. 2008  –  Category: Graphics

A big part of my job is designing proposals for films my company hopes to produce. They might be aimed at potential investors, production partners or networks that might want to air an already completed documentary, but the goal is always the same: proposals should be more than just basic reading material. Their design should give a sense of the overall look and feel of the project, draw attention to the elements that their audience will find most interesting, as well as simply convey the idea that we’re professionals and know what we’re doing.

Sometimes it takes a couple tries to get it right.

We have a fairly substantial library of short educational films that we’d like to repurpose into a television series. They’re a bit unconventional, as civics films go — informative, but with an edge — and I think they’re actually entertaining enough to attract a wide audience. But before we recut for TV, we have to convince someone to air them.