Biography

This is Brandon Mclean, he is the Director of Football Creative Services at Old Dominion University. Brandon attended Albany in New York. As a student he worked with the football team on their graphics and creative needs. He then graduated, and then went to Buffalo University in 2020 and did their graphic design for football. In 2021 Brandon left Buffalo and went to Miami Ohio and was assistant creative director for football. And in 2022 Brandon became the Director of Football Creative Services at Old Dominion University and is currently still there.

Short Narrative

To get into contact with Brandon Mclean, in August of 2022, the ODU football Instagram account posted a graphic saying they needed interns for graphic design, photography and videography. And I jumped on the opportunity and applied to do their graphics. My first day at the facility, Brandon handed me a camera and asked me to go take pictures of a football practice even though I did not have experience with cameras. I ended up falling in love with photography and then I became the ODU Football photographer for two seasons until I moved. To help Brandon, I would help run the instagram, and twitter. I would be in charge of adding videos to the instagram story, giving Brandon photos of the game to him to throw on a score graphic. I would help him edit pictures, I would help Brandon with recruiting visits which included photo shoots, video shoots and lots and lots of editing. To get Brandon to be my pen pal for this semester, I texted him and told him what I needed from him and asked if he would be willing to be my pen pal and he said yes. I know I already kinda had a connection before the assignment but Ive just already been working on it.