Video, Motion, and Drone Work
Before I discovered graphic design, I thought I was going to work in film or television. I even started college as a film major before changing direction my sophomore year. Video never really went away, though. Over the years, I've continued finding opportunities to shoot, edit, animate, and tell stories through motion alongside my design work.
More recently, I've added aerial photography and video to that mix, earning my FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot certification in 2025. The projects below span professional, educational, and personal work across more than a decade.
Brand & Storytelling
Some of my favorite video projects start with people and their stories. Whether I'm working from interviews, documenting a customer experience, or building something more playful, I enjoy finding the moments that matter and shaping them into something people will actually want to watch.
LeadsOnline Customer Story
April 2026
In fall 2025, I traveled to Volusia County, Florida, to interview customers and capture footage for a LeadsOnline customer story focused on the company's ballistic triage technology. I had also worked on the app design for the product, giving me a unique perspective on the story we were telling. I directed the shoot, captured interviews and B-roll, created the motion graphics, and edited more than three hours of footage into the final two-minute story. The project also gave me my first opportunity to incorporate my own aerial footage into a professional video production.
Art & Social Justice
November 2020
For a Jesuit Dallas prayer service exploring art as a catalyst for social change, we interviewed three professional artists whose work was represented in the school's museum collection. I helped shape the concept, directed the virtual interviews, and edited their responses into a single narrative connecting their different perspectives.
Ironic
April 2020
During the early days of the COVID lockdown, my husband's department hosted a virtual lip-sync competition. We created a playful homage to Alanis Morissette's “Ironic” video, using four separately-filmed single-takes timed together in a nod to her original video in which four versions of her rode and sang together in the same car.
Family
November 2023
Five Jesuit Dallas faculty members reflect on what family means to them in a piece built around quick cuts between voices and perspectives. It's a good example of the interview-editing style I enjoy most: finding connections across longer conversations and shaping them into a concise, fast-moving story.
Motion & Animation
Motion gives me another way to bring design to life, whether that's adding personality to a brand, explaining an idea, or creating small moments of interaction and delight.
LeadsOnline Motion Graphics
July 2024 – Present
I've created motion graphics for LeadsOnline across social media, marketing videos, digital experiences, and the products themselves. This collection includes everything from animated brand elements and promotional graphics to small interface moments designed to add clarity, personality, or delight.
Aerial / Drone
Adding drone cinematography to my toolkit has opened up a completely different way of establishing place, scale, and context. I'm still building this part of my portfolio, but I've already had opportunities to use aerial footage in both professional marketing work and independent projects.
Real Estate Listing
February 2026
For a residential real estate listing, I captured and edited an aerial tour designed to establish both the property and its surrounding environment. The project gave me an opportunity to think beyond individual drone shots and use movement, pacing, and sequencing to create a more complete sense of place.
Selected Earlier Work
Long before video became a more formal part of my professional design work, I was finding ways to use it in the classroom and across the school community. These earlier projects are a few examples that still stand out for the creative problems they asked me to solve.
Creative Industry Interviews
June 2020
During the shift to virtual learning in 2020, I produced a five-part series of interviews with creative professionals to replace the industry visits that normally formed part of our Design Survey course. Each video condensed an hour-long conversation into an accessible introduction to a creative field for high-school students.
Student Drugs & Alcohol Discussion
February 2018
When Jesuit's counseling department recorded a student panel about drugs and alcohol, they wanted to share the conversation with students and parents without revealing the identities of the seniors who participated. I was asked to turn the audio-only discussion into a visually engaging video while preserving that anonymity.