Clear Demonstration, Powerful Promotion. This video serves as both a powerful promotional tool and a clear, easy-to-understand demonstration of the URW -Unwind-Re-Wind machine. My contribution spanned the entire creative process, ensuring a visually compelling and informative presentation that effectively communicates the machine's value. This included capturing high-quality footage, crafting a coherent narrative that perfectly aligns with the visuals, removing any distracting branding images- painstakingly in after effects, because a blur just wasn't good enough to me, I had to make it look like nothing was there-.. developing custom animations to clarify complex mechanics, and overseeing all post-production to achieve a polished and impactful final video.
Fun Fact, I also worked on this machine personally in Colorado Springs.
During Covid, Envelopemart in Ohio had a lot of employees get sick. To catch it early and decrease risk of other employees, they came up with a hat/ band that monitors your body temperature, so you'll be alerted at the first sign of fever.
In addition to working on the prototype itself, I made the video from conception to post-production. Working with a $0 budget, I worked with what I had: no existing product yet, non-actor friends, phone camera, and a laptop. I didn't build the spinning hat element, but all other graphics and motion graphics are my doing. The phone, the app being scrolled through and used, the lights on the hats were added in post, the words on the screen the end screen, the website and app being displayed on the real phone and computers.
Pro-tip, Kickstarter will deny a campaign if the video contains fabricated elements- a new video was made after more of the prototype was completed, and this one lives on their other profiles.
In Taos New Mexico, Buck Johnston Climbs the drilling rig that was so strongly opposed by the community. This video was made to bring awareness to what was going on so covertly, and rally support for the cause, and for the people who scarified their peace to say something.
I mostly edited. I shot for the first day, then I started editing, Antony Page shot the bulk of the rest of it. We needed something out very quick because Buck was literally camping on the Rig for 4 days, so we wanted to get out as much support as quickly as possible. This video got almost 500 shares on facebook in the first 5 hours. Unicorn Riot even requested the video.
Rude Fact: Buck was sentenced 90 days in jail by the same judge that told me I should have been shot and left on the highway-- But not so rude, is Buck, his community is grateful for him.
Lauren of Lafhbox came up with the idea of stitching a doll modification video from Hextian. He removes the face of a Barbie so he can repaint it, and then we cut to Lauren removing my face with a giant homemade Q-tip.
I accomplished the effect using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects
This video is currently sitting at over 800k likes and 4M views
Fun Fact: Lauren is my sister and favorite film partner
This video is both a practical tutorial for how to do a brick texture using joint compound, while also being a commentary on imposter syndrome. How we are all hopelessly close to failure at any given time and the only way to succeed is to make it up as we go, and when we see a path, commit to it.
Unfortunately, I don't have my own reality TV show yet, so I don't have a crew of cameras that follow me around, so I filmed everything. cut it up, composed it, and scored it.
This video is currently sitting at 31k likes on my TikTok.
In this video, I quickly- admittedly too quickly-show how you can replace your eyes with your mouth and your mouth with your eye. We cover motion tracking, and my personal favorite- clipping masks.
I'm still trying to find my sweet spot with my flow, and balancing production speed with quality, but ultimately I love making tutorials for After Effects. I hate watching overly long tutorials. If I'm looking up a specific tutorial, it's because I'm doing that right now, and I don't want to sit through long intros or how to set up proxies. If I'm looking up motion tracking, I've made it past composition settings. So the goal with these tutorials is to give good information fast, with a little flair of humor, produce these videos quickly, and cover the massive world of After Effects and Adobe- and eventually- video production.