Video

Background

Video Editing, Motion Graphics, Broadcasting, and Production

My first real job was as an intern at a government television station in the mid 2000's. I was selected because I spent much of my youth teaching myself video editing - cutting my editing teeth on Adobe Premiere, Media 100, and Newtek SpeedEdit. The job was an opportunity to learn all sorts of new skills, such as color grading; post effects; motion graphics; and even a touch of creating and animating 3D assets with Lightwave. After about six months, I became a Producer at the studio. When I moved back to California, I spent a bit of time working on small productions in producer & administrative roles. I've continued to work in video off and on over the years.

Video Editing & Graphics

The thing I most like to do when working on video projects, actually editing the content and graphics.

Edited Videos

Note: I am not the editor of the main video. That honor goes to another video editor. I offered post support to the label with minor changes and create the tiktoks/shorts/etc.

A salvage edit of multiple pre-shot interview clips that already had background sound burned into what was provided. Given the lack of the source footage, use of bumpers and motion graphics were a must for the final edit.

The most insane motion graphics work I ever done was for this LP that didn't deserve two weeks of recreating the King of Fighters 98 opening cinematic entirely in After Effects and Photoshop for the opening 45-50 seconds. The assets are similar but mostly handmade approximations to fit the new 16:9 aspect ratio and had a bit of fun making it fit the project.

Volunteer work for a documentary benefitting the Yawanawa

I handle the vast majority of this channels editing. I chose this video because it is a more complex highlight style featuring zooms, external graphics work, transcription burn-in captions, and more.

Volunteer work for an Inland Empire Children's Center in 2011 or 2012.

Production

Sometimes business skills come in handy on set. Though I have been out of broadcast for years, I have spent time doing more than editing on other projects.

Production Roles

Party Girl Music Video

In 2017 I was working alongside Triple S and Ruwanga Samath on a lot of projects. One of those ended up being this music video for his song Party Girl which was featured in the Netflix original film Reality High. The song also featured renowkned musician and Youtuber DeStorm Power. Although I usually prefer a more hands on content position, I was primarily working as a Casting Director for this project. We had a very short schedule and tight budget, and I was negotiating appearances up until the last few minutes for some of the party scenes.

Short Film - Revelations

I was the Line Producer for Ricardo Miranda's short sci-fi drama Revelations. A multiple month project that saw me doing much more than trying to keep the cast organized and under budget. I spent a lot of time juggling department demands, organizing contracts, and helping the director with various tasks including script editing & revisions as portions of the project were molded to fit within budget or new creative visions by the director. Every day was a new challenge.