Video

Animation:The Quick Brown Fox – March 2021

Data Visualization: Dinosaur Museum Data- February 2021

This is was made during a data visualization unit in one of my multimedia classes. I was researching different date sets and noticed a dramatic increase in visitations to dinosaur museums around the release of Jurassic Park movies.

Palisades Lakes: Mini Doc- August 2020

This is an extension of something I made for my Documentary Photography class. It was originally a mini-documentary of my backyard that I updated throughout the summer to keep my skills sharp. I’m lucky enough to live behind a nature preserve in South Florida, so we get different lizards and birds all the time. Shooting wild animals can get fairly difficult, so I’m very grateful to be able to have as much practice as I do.

How-To Video- March 2020

This video was originally supposed to be a marketing video for my Professional Video class, however, the Covid-19 pandemic had other plans. I wanted the topic to be relatively simple so I could focus more on the technical aspects of the video instead of the subject itself. The three and a half minute video goes over how to slice and dice an onion, as well as basic knife safety.

I had no idea how the video would turn out because I was doing everything from my parents’ house. The end result made me much more confident in my skills and reinforced the idea that you don’t need be best, most high-tech equipment to make something good. This was the first video I’ve made in college without student production services, so it gave me the experience of what it might be like in the real world.

Travel Video- Jan 2020

This was the first video I made for the Spring 2020 semester. We were assigned to make a travel video for Pittsburgh in January, so I had no idea what I was going to do. I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up with a cemetery tour. The two minute and fifty-second video goes through the history and quirks of Allegheny Cemetery. 

The idea of this video was super fun to shoot. However, it was thirty degrees, and I ended up getting lost in a three hundred acre cemetery right before it closed. But, it made for a funny story, so it’s okay. This was the first video I’ve ever shot in the cold for an extended period of time. I got really good at setting up and tearing down shots quickly. A lot of my pans and tilts were messy, so I keyframed still shots to add smother motion. It gave me practice in problem-solving and editing, and I know I never would’ve made anything like this if wasn’t for this project.

Plastic Bag PSA- Oct 2019

I made this for my Broadcast Copywriting class. This was the first class I took that applied production techniques I had learned previously to possible career focuses. 

I planned out the video using advertising techniques and structures we had focused on in class. I wrote, shot, and edited by myself. I think the general concept and basic ideas succeeded and came through in the final project. However, I would polish some of the audio or add subtitles, and change Haleigh’s name to something viewers could comprehend faster.

Interview- March 2019

This an interview with freshman dance major, Sydney Fugett. In the interview, she talked about dancing at Point Park and other hobbies. This was shot by Vanessa Figueroa and myself and edited by myself. 

The biggest thing I learned from this project was working with a subject. Because Sydney and Vanessa are both dance majors with crazy schedules, it was hard finding times to shoot that worked for all of us. Working with and interviewing an actual person was a cool experience that gave me a realistic idea of what I could end up doing in the future.