As a kid, I used to dream of working in film or television — in fact that was the degree program I started out with my freshman year in college until I discovered graphic design. But despite changing degrees as a sophomore, I have always maintained a love for the creative challenge of conceptualizing and editing video projects together. Below, you can scroll through some various personal & professional video projects I've created over the years.
Jesuit Assembly Videos
Occasionally, I have been asked to create quick animations or videos to help present difficult ideas or to help start conversations within the community. These videos were created to present to students and/or parents at various school assemblies held at Jesuit Dallas.
Family
This video includes snippets from five Jesuit Dallas faculty discussing what family means to them, and is perhaps best representation of my editing style — I enjoy finding ways to cut interviews up in a fast-paced way that helps maintain interest (particularly for the target audience of teenagers who have notoriously short attention spans).
Little Boxes
In the fall of 2017, the school held an assembly exploring the concepts of prejudice and empathy, and the organizers were looking for a succinct way to summarizing the concepts that were being explored. In the end, I developed a simple animation that served as an introduction to the ideas that would be discussed that day.
Student Drug & Alcohol Conversation
In order to jump-start the difficult conversations of drugs & alcohol for students and their parents, our counselling department hosted a panel of seniors to talk about their experiences in their time in high school. I was tasked with finding a way to turn the audio recording of the conversation into a video that maintained the students’ anonymity.
Art & Social Justice
In the fall of 2020, the Fine Arts department at Jesuit was asked to host a prayer service, and the concept we developed was to explore how art can be used as a tool for sparking change in the world. We virtually interviewed three professional artists who have work featured in the collection of the art museum on our our school’s campus, then edited their responses into this short video.
Announcement Screen Motion Graphics
The following video contains a few motion graphics that I designed using Adobe AfterEffects for use on several internal announcement/advertisement screens positioned around Jesuit's campus.
Art Survey Industry Videos
In the summer of 2020, still in the early throes of Covid, my colleague and I had to find a way to pivot the plans for our Summer Art Survey class and find a way to teach in entirely virtually for the first time ever. In normal years, one of the highlights of our class has always been our industry field trips, in which we bring our students to meet professionals in various creative fields so that the students can see how the concepts being introduced in an art class can translate to some real-world careers. The field trips always serve as a preview of upcoming projects in which students are tasked with creating their own industry-inspired designs.
Of course, going completely virtual meant that our regular field trips would not be possible, so our next-best option to provide our students with the information they’d need for success in their projects was to interview our professional contacts and to create videos that we hoped would be just as informative and nearly as engaging as the field trips would have been. Over the course of a few weeks in early June, we scheduled an hour with each of our five professionals (although some of our conversations ended up closer to an hour and a half). Then, the real challenge began — finding a way to cut the interviews down to a more digestible 30ish minutes each in order to maintain the attentions of our students.
Emily Alexander
Photography
Rolf Nelson
Graphic/UX Design
Beccah Pocock
Interior Design
Robert Garza
Architecture
Wendy Hughes
Food Styling
Fun/Personal Projects
Ironic
This video was a personal project in the spring of 2020. In an effort to boost morale during the early days of Covid lockdowns, my husband’s department at work hosted a lip-sync competition for their employees. He and I had a lot of fun coming up with not only the perfect song, but a creative & timely way in which to film and edit it together... In the end, we came up with a playful homage to Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” video (in which four versions of Alanis take a car ride together).
Hand Animation
As an example for my art students, I created a quick looping hand animation of liquid droplets using Procreate. While maybe not the most advanced representation of my abilities, I still think it's a fun example of animation work that I've done.