This site was made possible with help from Adobe, Apple, and Avid software. Don't forget that Apple, Canon, and Panasonic hardware totally helped out too. The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film on the University of Nebraska at Lincoln campus should also be mentioned. As should scenic Nebraska, New York City, and Southern California.
I would also be remiss if I didn't point out that I have no PHP writing skills and the exquisite Image Rotator script can be found here. Also the wonderful JW FLV Media Player that I use for my reel. If you want to encode your own flash videos you need to use this.
Now to get to the business at hand. Jon Merchen owns, unless otherwise noted, the intellectual properties for everything contained in this site. Phew, glad that's out of the way. Who wants to a behind the scenes look at the making of this here site? Too bad it's just below this block of text!
Making of
This is my first rough drawing of the layout of the new site. As you can see I ditched the collage idea pretty quickly.
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This is the notes I made when picking the colors for the different backgrounds. Most of them changed, but this was my jumping off point.
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This last one is of the thumbnail drawings I did after I finalized the main look of the site.
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Thus concludes the Making of portion of the site. Hope you enjoyed it.
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