Rooftop Drone Inspection & Repair – J2 Mic’d Up – Dir. Ben Berman (2023)
As the social media specialist at J2 Building Consultants, I was tasked with updating the company’s brand identity through a heavier emphasis on video content. One major company operation is the continuous inspection of multifamily and commercial properties to assess their safety and financial value. I was interested in showcasing visually striking and emotionally resonant examples of this process, so I accompanied several project managers and engineers to the Centennial School District campus in Central Oregon as they monitored and documented the quality of the campus rooftops via drone photography. I was able to capture this process and the excitement of our project managers as they successfully completed the visual inspection by filming them in a style similar to the NFL’s comedic and candid Mic’d Up Series. For a company that continuously repeated operations in a way that is challenging to capture on video, it was a treat to combine several videographic genres for a fresh digital marketing campaign.
A Geologic History of The Flatirons – Dir. Ben Berman (2022)
I worked with a team of five to create an interactive, elementary-level media project, the Denver Interactive Timeline (DIT). To augment the immersive, web-based timeline, I wrote, produced and edited three videos oriented towards younger learners curious about aspects of local Front Range history.
I animated motion graphics, provided voice-over and color corrected dozens of archival photographs to create short, engaging products that matched the overall intent and visual aesthetic of the Denver Interactive Timeline project. I was careful to implement language, typefaces and other assets best suited towards a target demographic to meet their learning goals. As of January 2023, we successfully oversaw DIT implementation into the curriculum of several Boulder and Broomfield County 4th grade classrooms!
OUTERLANDS: San Francisco’s Sunset District – Dir. Ben Berman (2021)
This was a longer documentary piece made to capture the culture of the Sunset District, a historic neighborhood in San Francisco, CA, and whether or not some of its residents viewed the Bay Area’s technological urbanization and increasing rent prices as a threat to their beachside neighborhood. I shot, edited, color graded and conducted interviews for this piece.
Pokémon X and Y Retrospective: A Forgotten Chapter of the Franchise – Dir. Ben Berman (2021)
For the entirety of my college career, I have been the sole host, editor, producer, animator and writer behind Tam Valley Productions, a YouTube channel that began as a hobbyist pursuit and quickly morphed into a pop culture analysis and education channel that dives into thoughtful questions behind a multitude of video game and film franchises, most notably Pokémon. I frequently create original artwork and other digital assets for a variety of video topics. As of the channel’s nearly four-year anniversary (Oct. 2023), it has amassed a viewership of over 17,100 subscribers and a collective viewership of 1.5 million and growing. I have successfully overseen operations of the channel’s ongoing pursuits, brand sponsorships, creative collaborations and more while I was a full-time student and enjoy producing roughly a video a month now during my free time.
This is the channel’s most successful video, in which I analyze the story and gameplay elements of the Pokémon franchise’s most critical underperforming release and what may have contributed to its negative reception.
…Oh yeah, here are some other personal favorites from the channel!
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