Online Portfolio of Michael Wach

October 10th, at about 7 o’clock, A3F, or the Almost Famous Film Festival, kicked off their 2008 72-hour film challenge. The theme was super powers / special abilities, the prop was an envelope, and the line was “I don’t know what’s real anymore”. You can check out an online copy of the DVD that Got Film? Productions (my team) submitted, titled “Fallen Blue”, at http://www.fallenblue.mikewach.com/

Got Film? Productions is a “company” that a number of my friends from Collins College just recently started. So far, I’ve helped them by photo documenting all of the Fallen Blue shoots, authoring their DVDs, and handling any Read More...

Charity Pictures is a local Phoenix nonprofit organization “designed to improve the quality of life for civilization”. Charity Pictures also severely needed a website makeover. This is a project I’ve been plotting and doodling ideas for over a year since they were originally going to have me do it. There were tons of ideas for designs. We needed something that looked cool and related to motion pictures.

The original idea was to have an entire desk with interactive props sitting on top of it. Each prop, such as a camera, or a reel of film, would take you to a gallery related to that medium when you clicked on it. The challenge was taking a real photo of a charity pictures desk and cutting out each prop in a way that could later be programmed interactive. If you’ve visited the Read More...

Not even a week before the official launch of demitregarza.com, I met with this local Phoenix visual effects artist, Demitre Garza. Not only was this week his 21st birthday, but he was also graduating with is bachelors at Collins College. Now he needed a place on the web to show off his demo reels. I’m not the only person that knows how to use Photoshop; Demitre began putting together a design. The original plan was to have about four or five different pages: home, reel #1, reel #2, resume, and contact. The design was good, but we didn’t use it.

After almost four days (eight different website designs), we began to worry if the design would take longer than the actual website development. I sat down in front of Photoshop that evening and created another new website design (Design 9). This time, I made two pages. Each page Read More...

Now that my semester is over, I have a lot more free time to work on all of those long lost projects. I’m basically finished with my website for now, besides going back and uploading older content. So the next project is my dad’s website.

For those of you that don’t know, Wach Gallery is the name of my father’s business. He buys and sells “Fine 19th Century, 20th Century & Contemporary Photography”. Last year I built him a custom tailored PHP and MySQL content management system. Since then, I’ve learned a lot of new things. Now, I plan to take this intermediate site to professional.

The front end mainly Read More...