Birdeye Gravel
I made this short clip as a personal project with scenes shot during Birdeye Gravel in November 2023. studioDRIFT is one of the first non-profits in the state of Arkansas to provide free public planning and funding for outdoor recreation-related projects. Founder, and my uncle, Martin Smith expands upon a possible future in recreational tourism for rural Arkansas.
Hotel Ruston Video Series
Independent personal project conducted with Emilie Bahr-Jones in Ruston, Louisiana. The Ruston Hotel is a historical building located in the heart of downtown Ruston but has sat vacant for decades. A team, led by Emilie, seeks to restore the historic hotel into a boutique, 20-room hotel to serve the community of Ruston and provide a unique experience for those visiting the downtown – this is The Hotel Ruston. Goals for this project included a video series including one video on the history of the building and city, the arts community, and the business community – three components that makeup The Hotel Ruston. Numerous other short form content has come from this project for use on social media campaigns.
Sandhill Cranes
Short videos covering one of the United States’ last great migrations of Sandhill Cranes that gather in Kearney,
Nebraska at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary. Project includes a complete promo video and a volunteer training video to be used by the sanctuary. Experience with data/file management and proxy editing.
Redemption Video Series
“Redemption” is a novel published by Leah Naess and written by her late friend, Karen Starkins. This project required recording reader reviews, one-on-one interviews with the publisher, and recording voice overs of excerpts from the novel. All
of this media is edited into a social media campaign for the novel, run by Professional Storytelling and Madi Garcia. In total,
over 50 short form videos have been edited and published for the campaign. I helped create video content to create consistency in language and aesthetics for a specific marketing campaign.
Tree Inequity
Final cut for "Producing the Environmental Documentary" class at the University of Denver. Class covered pre-production, production, and post-production. Edited by myself, shots filmed by myself and other students in the class. Summer quarter 2020, in Denver.
