VIDEO EDITOR
Reel
Adobe Premiere
Da Vinci Resolve
Apple Final Cut Pro
Adobe After Effects
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You Have Changed Our Lives
Client: AGE Africa, an Obama Foundation-funded organization supporting the education and liberation of girls in Malawi.
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Target: Existing and potential donors
Challenge: Use client's existing footage to craft a compelling appreciation message.
Solution: Heartfelt message from scholarship recipients enhanced with an animation of the the organization's logo.
Vintage Style
Client: Minos Magnan, a style coach and image consultant whose clients have included Bloomingdale’s, Calvin Klein, MTV and Bank of America.
Target: New clients within Instagram platform
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Challenge: Showcase the client’s creativity and easygoing, energetic working style.
Solution: Dynamic "Day in the life" Instagram reel capturing both the fun mood on the set and the fashion images that emerged.
Faith In Action
Client: A Faith that Does Justice, a nonprofit organization serving marginalized communities with education and meals.
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Target: Potential new volunteers.
Challenge: Create a professional-quality video from a minimum of existing client media to encourage new volunteers.
Solution: A serene 30-second appeal fashioned from Zoom interviews and elevated with new nature footage and an animation of the organization's logo.
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Client: Georgia Rew, hairstylist, trainer and business owner.
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Target: Salon clientele and cosmetology students.
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Challenge: Build greater brand exposure for this instructional stylist. Multiple versions requested.
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Solution: 1) detailed six-minute guided demo and 2) this fun, zippy promo capped with impressive comparison image.
Slow Food In the Neighborhood
Client: Three Stone Hearth, a local worker cooperative preparing healthy “slow food” options to the Berkeley community.
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Target: New and existing customers
Challenge: Improve branding and increase visibility of substantial food preparation process for much needed expansion of customer base.
Solution: Earthy behind-the-scene portrait that brings kitchen to life with focus on the great care, quality ingredients, and sense of community involved in product.
Time Is Running Out
Client: Professor Ravinder Sehgal, a disease ecologist.
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Target: Colleagues, students and potential donors and partners
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Challenge: Create an engaging introduction to client's work for presentations, grant proposals and other fundraising
Solution: Intense montage combining media from field work and motion graphics that convey the urgency of environmental conservation efforts.
The Glassmaker's Son
Client: Peter Kupfer, Writer
Target: Readers
Challenge: Stimulate interest in new memoir with archival images.
Solution: Dramatic, documentary-style piece set to music, with imagery enhancing the nostalgia tone of passage read by author.
Broadcast on April, 2023 by WTNH in Connecticut as part of a feature:
Expand Your World
Client: Lovewell Online Coaching and Therapy - Spec Ad
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Target: Potential clients
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Challenge: Create a fresh marketing piece that conveys the value of coaching/therapy services in an engaging manner.
Solution: A playful, sweet chronicle of the gradual process of finding courage to move through fear.
Our Lab
Ravinder Sehgal, a biology professor at San Francisco State University, introduces potential students and possible donors to his laboratory and the valuable conservation research he and his students perform. I produced and edited the video, created the motion graphics,conducted the interviews and performed most of the videography involved.
Finding Jackie
Short Documentary (Trailer)
Beloved San Francisco dog walker and artist John Beauparlant draws inspiration from muses Jackie Kennedy and Vincent Van Gogh to create whimsical collages that reflect his journey toward healing and connection. I conducted the interviews and shot and edited the film. Selected for showing in the Indianapolis Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
I edited this music video for Bay Area pop duo Ramon & Jessica using Adobe Premiere, incorporating video shot by others and stock footage, and created effects in both Adobe Premiere and After Effects.