PORTFOLIO

PORTFOLIO

hcschrank@gmail.com

I'm Hannah, a stylist and creative from San Francisco, based in Los Angeles. I am a Communications & Retail Studies Major & Minor at Santa Clara University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in June 2023.

I aspire to work in the fashion industry as I work on my passion project, Schrank Lingerie, a re-establishment of my family’s company.

This website fulfills my final graduation requirement, a personal portfolio of our collective work as a college student.

HANNAH SCHRANK

Student & Creative

PROJECTS

  • Film: Santa Clara University Skate Club

  • Asian Art Visual Analysis

  • My Own: Birth of Venus

  • The Volatile Effects of Social Media Communication Amongst Relationships

  • Schrank Lingerie

 
2022 SCU GIRLS SKATE PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

This project was filmed in 2022  as a part of a documentary Filmmaking course focusing on community outreach and activism. The class, Communication 40, Introduction to Film Making, engages the interdisciplinary studies of film and communication. The assignment was to create a short promotional documentary articulating a special, relatively unknown group local to Santa Clara. In making this film, I engaged in the following PLO, Personal Learning Outcome: Create effective and ethical oral, visual, and written communication based on awareness of diverse perspectives, contexts, and social identities.

SCU GIRLS SKATE

Senior Art Show

A culmination of collective memories of my psyche: Eight years in the making.

Birth of Venus:
My Own

Duralar + Ink
09/01/2022

“This project represents a culmination of my academic and artistic work as my academic chapter closes. A 6-foot tall piece of Dura-Lar depicts scenes and motifs from my life, framed by Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus.”

This piece was created as a quasi-personal and academic piece. I began my Senior year of high school with the plan to finish my senior year of college, thus representing the culmination of my ‘life’ as determined by the academic calendar. This project allowed me to analyze communication structures, ethical dimensions, and research skills to create effective, ethical communication that supports diversity, equity, inclusion, and a more just, humane, or sustainable world.

The Volatile Effects of Social Media Communication Amongst Relationships: A Quantitative Study

This paper, written for my Quantitative Methods Research course, culminates in a quarter-long Communication-problems-based research project. The process required submission levels to go on to the next phase. The research allowed me to analyze the ethical dimensions of communication and form judgments and practices based on evidence and values, to further my understanding of the technological-based social issues that affect adolescents in today’s society. 

  • The rates of social media usage (SMU), in terms of duration and number of platforms, have increased dramatically. As levels of teenage depression and anxiety have increased, the risk factor for volatile outcomes, characterized by the presence of domestic violence and general conflict, amongst adolescents in romantic relationships appears to have increased in predictability, commonality, and likelihood. Past family, platonic, and romantic histories, as well as in-depth analysis of social media platform usage amongst teenagers in relationships, will be surveyed along with mental health histories to determine the relationship between mental health, social media, and romance - all of which leave a lasting impression upon an individual to permeate throughout their adulthood.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • Item description

  • Item description

  • Item description

Schrank Lingerie est. 1929. re-est. 2022.

Schrank Lingerie

My great-grandfather’s company, the M.C. Schrank Company, manufactured lingerie in New Jersey until 1960 it was bought out. I re-established the company Schrank Lingerie, my passion project, in 2022. As I continue to build my knowledge and expertise in the fashion industry, I plan to develop this project on the side, similar to that of my four-year project, Birth Of Venus: My Own.

M.C Schrank Company
est. 1929

RE-EST.
01/01/2022

ART HISTORY ANALYSIS: Gong Xian Landscapes With Poems, 1688.

This class focused on Eastern Asian art history. In China, paintings and gardens visually representing Confucian and Daoist principles promoted societal order and personal growth. In Korea, imported religions and philosophies were interpreted through local beliefs, leading to the development of True View painting and seowon rural campuses. In Japan, Shintoism influenced Buddhism, resulting in the emergence of Zen and tea gardens. These religious, philosophical, aesthetic, and practical traditions continue to thrive, influencing global art and landscape design. They offer solutions to environmental challenges and alternatives to the alienation experienced in modern society. Through this analysis of two artworks, I considered form, size, design, motifs, composition, dimensionality, materiality, level of craftsmanship, value, the embodiment of power, and individuality to demonstrate research skills, including the ability to formulate research questions, interpret, and evaluate communication research.

Resumé

  • I am a soon-to-be graduate of Santa Clara University with a degree in Communications and Retail Studies, and am passionate about the fashion industry. Specifically, I am looking for roles related to production, design, marketing, and sales functions. Having worked as a personal project assistant to a fashion photographer, I am eager to learn from on-the-job experience and self-directed exploration and confidently work with and for others to become an impactful contributor to all projects. Having served as my sorority’s Kappa Alpha Theta Vice President of Membership, which demanded careful thought to ensure efficient and effective recruitment, resulting in our chapter’s largest pledge class in history, I feel proud of my accomplishment in learning, implementing, managing, and delegating on the go. These practical and leadership skills represent a strong foundation, and I will continue to grow my capabilities.

    • Vice President of Membership, Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority – 3/2022 - 4/2023

    • Production Assistant, Sophia Schrank Photography – 6/2021 - 9/2021

    • Graphic Design Artist, Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority – 2/2022 - 4/2023

    • Communications Team Co-Leader, the Pledge, Project Matriarchs – 6/2021 - 9/2021

    • Writing Consultant Shafia – 1/2019 - Current

    • Santa Clara University – Bachelors of Arts in Communications, Minor in Retail Studies, 2023

    • Skidmore College - 2019-2021

    • Urban School of San Francisco, 2015-2019

    • Media Communications

    • Adobe Software Programs - Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, Lightroom, Adobe Stock, and premiere pro

    • Event Planning

    • Verbal and Written Communications

    • Journalism - Researching, interviewing, and writing articles, profiles, and beat pieces

    • Social Media Platforms - Designing and implementing PR plans, maintaining posting schedules across multiple platforms

    • Creative Thinking & Problem Solving

Reflection

Upon my upcoming graduation from Santa Clara University, I reflect upon my somewhat (at the time) unconventional path to where I am today, writing this on the floor of my sorority room that I share with three other girls I never knew, now my best friends, four years ago. I began my collegiate journey knowing one thing; I needed to be as far away as possible from California and to a place I knew had an excellent reputation and a fitting student body. So, I began my first year on a sticky August afternoon in Saratoga Springs, sitting in my Skidmore College dorm room in McClellan, nicknamed ‘Dirty Mac’ for its partying antics. 

Beginning my classes, I had absolutely no idea what I was interested in other than the general theme of ‘intersectionality’ that I had written my Common Application essay on. I enrolled in Introduction to International Affairs, English of the Anthropocene, ceramics, and Anthropology in my first semester. So to say, I was dipping my toe in anything I thought may be interesting. The following year I began a business track, deciding it was the most sensible, plus the majority of my friends were in the major, so that didn’t hurt. Deciding that the capitalistic-driven nature of the business industry indeed wasn’t for me, I went to look for something else that captured the human behavior aspect I found interesting in business without the drive of financial profit. 

Upon deciding to transfer to Santa Clara University, I knew one major was for me because only one fit the vague, abstract, humanistic study I had been seeking all along - Communication. The summer before transferring, I lived in Los Angeles as a fashion photographer’s assistant, realizing that the fashion industry was my calling - something I had known since I was five years old, sewing my clothing. 

Santa Clara’s Communication program gave me the intersectional education that I had been seeking for so long - something that allowed me to indulge in my every interest, from dissecting Silicon Valley’s system of coded inequality to the religious foundations of the surfing world and its culmination into a billion dollar industry. Without the ability to discover these interests, I would not be able to see the world as I do today - a complex, diverse, and fascinating world. 

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