Summer at SMT

This past summer I worked at Sportsmedia Technology as a design intern. While I was there I worked on projects for Showtime Strikeforce, MLB Network, Time Warner Cable Sportsnet and internal projects for SMT. I learned so much when I was there and I enjoyed every minute!

Showtime Strikeforce

I was asked to design color chips and the section for standing time for the Strikeforce ticker. I made multiple variations for the client to pick.

In the end the client chose the design in the bottom right. 

Showtime-Strikeforce Color Chips from Lauren Peterson on Vimeo.

Unfortunately none of the fights from that event needed the standing time stat. Here are some the standing time designs. The client chose the design on the larger image.

The Happening-Title Sequence

Title sequence for M. Night Shyamalan's movie, The Happening. I stayed with the nature theme that the movie has. I wanted to show nature as something that could be beautiful but threatening as well.
The timing and order of cast and crew is the same as the current opening titles.
This was shot at the Chatham County Garden Center & Botanical Gardens in Savannah, GA.
Shot with: Panasonic HPX170
Music: "Main Titles" by James Newton Howard from The Happening soundtrack.

Tattoo Tea Party

Final project for Branding and Packaging class. I chose to do a promo for the Tattoo Tea Party, a new tattoo convention in Manchester, England. In tattoo culture, the human body can be considered a canvas. I thought of combing the traditional canvas medium (paint) with the human body canvas.
A HUGE thanks to my models, Marissa and Lindsey.
Music: Spitfire by Prodigy
Shot with Panasonic HPX170

Early 2012 Demo Reel

This is a collection of my work done between 2011-2012.
Music: M.A.D by Hadouken!

NESN Rebrand

These are three IDs for NESN (New England Sport Network). The network is the main broadcaster of the Boston Red Sox and Bruins games, along with college sports. I wanted to focus on the history and icons of the Red Sox and Bruins that fans would be able to recognize.

Playground Interpretation

This was my first time ever shooting my own footage, how exciting! This was a group project so my partner and I took turns filming. We had to film with the theme of natural light. We chose to shoot at a playground and focus on the abstract shapes and shadows of the playground equipment. After we finished filming we split up to do our own editing. I chose to stick to an abstract theme to go along with the music I chose. I wanted the footage to react to the music so when there was a glitchy noise in the music the footage would reflect that. I thought cutting up some of the frames would create a more interesting element to some of the stationary footage.

Headphones Model

The assignment here was to model an object three different times in three different ways: organic, industrial and futuristic. All of the 3D work was done in Cinema 4D.

Winter-Four Seasons

This was part of a group project. Each of us had to interpret one of the four seasons. I chose winter. I was inspired by (obviously) the cold weather, the warmth of a home and painted winter scenes. My piece is the first 30 seconds.

"Going Nowhere"

Just putting it out there, I love Tim Burton. I was heavily inspired by his sketches and concept art for this animation, along with Edward Gorey. The idea for this project was to create a stylistic world for a realistic object. The object had to interact with this world and go on a journey (big or small). I chose an older wheelchair for the realistic object. I wanted to depict a small, isolated world. My idea was to make the world look as if a graphic print came to life in a 3D world. I wanted a fairly dark environment to give off a gloomy atmosphere. All of it was modeled in Cinema 4D.

Savannah Film Festival Bumper

I created this animation for the Savannah Film Festival bumper contest. The contest called for:
Theme: Celebration of the art of cinema; the ideas of conversation, discourse
and sharing
Tone: Youthful, vivacious and colorful
I chose to go with a sharing conversation concept. I thought of how news gets around whether it be from a newspaper, email or simply one friend saying to another. I created a colorful environment with characters viewers could relate to.

2010-2011

Work from my sophomore year:

Pan's Labyrinth titles



The idea was to combine a product with an artistic movement. I am a huge fan of Pan's Labyrinth and decided to do an opening title sequence in the style of art nouveau. I felt the art nouveau would add to the fantastical elements and overall style of the movie. I created vector graphics of iconic characters and objects similar to the style of art nouveau prints.

Oogie Boogie Typography



This is pretty self explanatory, kinetic typography matched up with audio. Oogie Boogie is one of my favorite character's from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. Since he is the Boogie Man I thought it would be appropriate to have the text emerge from a closet in a bedroom environment. Oogie Boogie's scene in the movie is very colorful and energetic so I incorporated those elements into my piece.