Channel rebrand

The next big milestone on the Fellows calendar is the presentations we will give to the school next Friday. Naturally, since the final product of my project will be a video series, I wanted to have a QR code in my presentation for students to scan if they were interested. I quickly realized that if I wanted students to see my Youtube channel, I should have my channel ready to be looked at. And thus began the mad dash to make my channel presentable. I first found information from some of my favorite Youtube channels. I chose to model my logo and banner after the styles of other documentary/educational channels, like Watcher, Abstract, and Fern. I noticed that these channels typically had their name in the banner with some background image, and a profile picture that was the first letter in their title. Once I had my concept in mind, I found a royalty free photo of a Greek temple that had the right composition, color scheme, and general vibe. I uploaded this photo into my drawing app, found a font I liked for the text, and created a logo. I chose to make my logo resemble a Greek column, which seemed like an easily recognizable symbol for ancient Greece. I also chose to vaguely shape my column like the letter A, the first letter in Academia. I ended up using this logo as my profile picture, and used all of these images to update my Youtube channel. I also updated this blog to better match the identity of my channel. Finally, I added a link to my Youtube channel so that subscribers could find this website easily. I am overall very happy with how everything turned out, and I think it sets the tone for my channel well.