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In high school senior year, I was part of the morning announcements. I mostly worked in the background with audio and cameras, but also made edited videos in After Effects and Premiere Pro that were then streamed live. I unintentionally made three different videos about the weather, and rounded out my time there by making a video about the vending machines at our school.
This video embed is to a playlist with all four videos- a link to that playlist is here!
Armed with less than 40 images of my friend's dog, Lola, I set out to create a minute of heavily edited visuals with some puppet animation to the tune of the song Copacabana. If you are unfamiliar with the song, it is about a lady named Lola and her slow downfall into alcoholism. But the first verse is cheery and is about her performing while her partner Tony ran the bar. I'm recontexualizing the song to be about my friend and his bond with his dog rather than anything romantic, but I still used the lyrics to match the visuals.
This was inspired by the editing style of fancams and that one edit of doge singing Lalala by BBNO$. I was going to authentically replicate the transitions using the same editing app fancams use, but a lot of the features were locked and I wanted to have more creative control of how the video looked, which led me to use built-in transitions and some custom ones. The edit ended up taking about 15-20 hours to put together. I bounced between Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects, linking the files together in order to get the effects I wanted. After Effects contains the animated images of Lola and the lyrics on the bottom, while Premiere was used for the main images and image transitions. I masked out the body parts of Lola in Photoshop.
For my Calculus III Final Project, I was allowed to choose a topic to cover, which ended up being truth tables. I wanted it to be more interesting for myself, so I made truth tables in Minecraft, and put together this video to show my research and work.
Inspired by "storytime" videos on YouTube, I embarked on a journey of making a bunch of monkey emojis for a Discord server. This video also contains a "speedpaint", showing my process within Adobe Illustrator.
As the title suggests, I made this video as editing practice. I was using a Microsoft Surface as my computer at the time, which functionally doesn't have a GPU, which led this project to be challenging to edit due to my inexperience at the time as well as my limited patience. (I am very grateful to now have a computer which can actually show me my editing in real time.)
While at Texas Biomed, I used proper equipment to both record video and audio, conducting several interviews. I then compressed each interview into a shorter but powerful story.
I would love to share the work I did while at Texas BioMed, but I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, and I have been unable to find those videos posted publicly online.