Video
Family in Costa Rica
After spending 10 days in Costa Rica , I created a short documentary capturing the highly prevalent value of family and togetherness in the people I met. This project required working on both audio and video and at times even working with translators. While not all of these people knew each other, I loved finding the common bond between them of family to help tell their story,
Wake me up music video
As storytelling is my main focus, music videos are one of the most creative and exhilarating ways for me to be able to incorporate my love of music to create a new narrative. In this particular project, I show the journey of a college senior preparing for graduation and dealing with the flood of emotions that comes along with it set to a Lea Michelle cover of Avicii’s hit song “Wake me up.”
COVID’s impact on recreational activities
While the COVID-19 pandemic has created many isolating and difficult circumstances, there were also some silver linings that people discovered about themselves. This montage explores the impact that was made on sports and outdoor exercise and the light at the end of the tunnel as we near the return to normalcy.
How to Yoga
Creating a how to video meant partnering with someone who was both talented and able to articulate what they were demonstrating. Producing this video was a great learning experience for the importance of balancing enough preproduction work with flexibility to listen to your fellow collaborators and come up with new ideas to incorporate on the fly.
Ping Pong Mockumentary
Sometimes the best way to tell a funny story is to simply take one that already exists and turn it upside down to find some areas to poke fun at. While I was working during a lockdown for this project, I was forced to be a one man crew to film, capture audio, edit, and star in this piece that spoofs the long-running ESPN 30 for 30 series.
Emotional moments in our nation’s history
This ignite presentation incorporates some key visual design principles to tell the story of some of the most powerful images in American history. A good way to describe the premise of this presentation is the old saying “a picture says a thousand words.” Sometimes an image is so impactful that it can encompass an entire moment in time through one frame, and other times, it’s what’s not shown that tells even more of the story.