Video

These are clips from some of the works I created in 2020 and 2021 with limited resources and while following COVID-19 guidelines on Saint Louis University’s campus. More work will soon come from 2022.

The “portrait of a place” project was designed to capture the essence of a specific place at a specific time. For this, I chose a koi pond on Saint Louis University’s campus at dawn in the fall of 2020. I wrote the text that appears on screened, recorded the video, and edited together the final project. The audio is a combination of self-recorded audio and free-to-use audio from online.
This “multimedia letter” was created in the spring of 2021 as a self-reflection. It utilizes video that I filmed both indoors and outdoors and clips taken from the YouTube channel of a club I participated in during high school. The coloration and video sizes were all intentional. I wrote and recorded the narration. The background music is “Try Again – Instrumental” by d.ear. These are a few clips from the full video.
This video was created in the fall of 2020 as an introduction to the game Dungeons & Dragons. Audio does not begin until 0:06. This is the introduction to the video, so it lacks full context. However, it displays some of my camera work with props and cuts between different shots.
In the introduction to a “language comparison” video that I wrote questions for, recorded, and edited, the editing style that I used for this video is clear on display. It was designed as a easy-to-watch video that was both educational and funny. To get show this, I occasionally cut to specific participants’ facial expressions and included captions whenever they said a word in their specific language. For this video, I recorded audio and video separately and synchronized them during the first stages of editing. At certain points during the video, there were spikes in the audio, one of which I was able to lower in this clip. When I filmed this in the spring of 2021, COVID-19 restrictions were still in place, so my video participants may also be seen in other videos on this page.
Combining illustrations in Photoshop and Illustrator with the animating capabilities of After Effects, this short video has several moving parts. I added my own personal flavor with the magical theme, opting for more “unnatural” colors in this natural scene.
For this animation, I demonstrated a parallax effect with the differing speeds of motion of the separate layers of the landscape. The background was created in Photoshop, the buildings, hills, and water were drawn in Illustrator, and it was animated in After Effects.