Hey! I’m so glad you want to learn a bit more about my skillset, style and work. Below I have some films that I’ve made for a variety of organizations. I’ll put some context each one, tell help explain a bit of how it was made, or what my contribution to the film was. For most of these, I’ve produced, written, shot, directed, edited, graphics and scored by myself, but not for all!
EcoCar Electric Vehicle Competition
I shot and edited this video with Calvin Schenck. Calvin and I work together as Sidelight.studio, and team up for bigger jobs, with Amari Alexander serving as the producer. What I think is great about this video, is that we shot it on site, editing at night so that the film could be shown at the final day of the competition. I believe this showcases our ability to focus, be adaptable (competitions are unscripted!) and to execute on a super tight time frame.
Alma Backyard Farms
I edited this film! Working with a tremendous amount of amazing interviews and gorgeous visuals, the challenge with this film was just keeping it tight and focused. Such a pleasure.
Kresge Arts in Detroit
For Kresge's 15-year celebration, I made a few videos to commemorate all the great work they’ve done supporting artists in Detroit. This is a trailer for the event. From over 12 hours of artist profiles, I made a kinetic trailer, that combines, and creatively transitions between many artists and disciplines. I think it is exciting!
I’ve also had the pleasure of editing a 3 of the artist films for Kresge Arts in Detroit, like this piece on Dr. Gloria House as a part of the 2019 Eminent Artist award.
United Way of Southeastern Michigan
United Way for Southeastern Michigan contacted me with the idea that they needed an explainer film for their new program, a Community Information Exchange called Connect4Care. After reading through the available literature on the program, and a few meetings with the team developing the program, I wrote a script. The team at United Way then helped shape and edit the script. Then I started making illustrations for our characters and backgrounds, animated, sound-designed, and did the music for this film.
Shinola
Another film with a 15+ hours of interviews, and a 3.5 minute finished product, I am very happy with how I was able to find the right pace and narrative for this film.
Design Within Reach
I did the post production on this film. I quite enjoy the pace and tone of this one.
On this film I did the Edit, visual effects, and I was the DIT on set. Working with the ad people at google, this film had over 47 revisions, and included 24/7 on-call edit changes. I woke up a few times at 3 am to a call for an “emergency change” to which shot goes where. It was intense.
I was given a script, and I did everything else!
Edit / Photoshop & Graphics
Editing / Graphics / Color / DIT