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Governor’s Cup / Entrepreneur’s Cup
I built and operated an end-to-end media production pipeline for Oklahoma’s premier collegiate business competition.
Across recurring Governor’s Cup / Entrepreneur’s Cup events, I transformed media captured during a two-day competition into hundreds of cohesive presentation assets for a live awards ceremony only days later. The work combined photography, video, motion design, post-production, asset management, and technical coordination inside one repeatable six-day production system.
Role
Visual Designer, Motion Graphics Designer, Creative Technologist
Status
Completed recurring live-event production engagement.
Project type
Other
Primary discipline
Creative Technology
Year
2011–2023
Capabilities
Event
Statewide collegiate business plan competition
Production model
Capture, post-production, presentation, and live delivery
Collaboration
Competition organizers and live event production company
Audience
Entrepreneurs, universities, investors, sponsors, and government leadership
Competition capture
2 days
Production window
6 days
Personalized assets
Hundreds
Event participants
~500
The Governor’s Cup / Entrepreneur’s Cup is a statewide business plan competition where student entrepreneurs present their ventures before judges, investors, business leaders, and government officials before gathering for a formal awards ceremony.
My role extended beyond creating event graphics. During the two-day competition, I captured individual headshots, team photographs, green-screen interviews, event photography, and supporting video for every participating team.
Once the competition ended, that raw media entered an accelerated post-production workflow. Over the next six days, hundreds of assets were organized, keyed, edited, branded, animated, reviewed, and assembled into the final live presentation package.
Timeline
A six-day production sprint
Detail
Thursday and Friday
Capture individual competitor headshots, team photographs, green-screen interviews, event photography, and supporting video during the two-day competition.
Detail
Friday evening
Move immediately into post-production by organizing raw media, removing backgrounds, keying interviews, color correcting footage, and preparing assets for the year’s visual system.
Detail
Saturday through Thursday
Build the complete presentation package, manage continuous review cycles, absorb last-minute changes, and deliver final assets shortly before the awards ceremony.
Challenge
Creating hundreds of personalized assets under a fixed deadline
The central challenge was not any single graphic. It was managing a large volume of interconnected deliverables that could not be completed until the competition generated the photography, interviews, team information, and award results they depended on.
Every revision had potential ripple effects across the presentation package. Success required careful asset organization, consistent visual rules, and close communication between the competition organizers and the live production company while the deadline remained immovable.
Process
Designing a repeatable production system
Execution
From raw media to a live presentation environment
Detail
Competitor media
Hundreds of individualized headshots, team images, and interview deliverables were processed into one cohesive event identity.
Detail
Presentation package
Speaker introductions, sponsor visuals, award slides, presentation templates, and event branding were assembled for live use.
Detail
Motion system
Animated transitions and motion graphics extended the visual language across the awards ceremony without slowing production.
Detail
Technical delivery
Every asset was prepared for the venue’s display configurations and coordinated with the team responsible for operating the live event.
Gallery
The production system in motion
Outcome
Delivering a creative production system under pressure
The complete presentation package was delivered within the production window and used during the Governor’s Cup / Entrepreneur’s Cup awards ceremony for an audience of approximately 500 participants.
The work demonstrated that design becomes more valuable when it is created with a deep understanding of the technical system it must operate within. The same systems thinking that shaped the visual package also made a demanding, high-volume workflow reliable under real-world constraints.