Women’s history month
For Women’s History Month, I wanted to create a motion graphics project that felt energetic and badass to truly celebrate the strength of women. The video was created in collaboration with the information services department to promote a curated book list to celebrate the occassion.
Banned Books Week 2020
For Banned Books Week in 2020, a year that left us with so much to reflect on, Arlington Heights Memorial Library wanted to create a special series that brought awareness to the topic of banned books. I came up with the idea to have staff and community members do a voice over telling heartfelt stories of their experiences with banned books, and creating graphic based videos to accompany the audio. The video above features the story of a woman who grew up in Poland under martial law, and how the works of George Orwell, works that were banned in her country, reflected her situation all too well. For this project, I created all graphics in Adobe Illustrator, and animated the project in Adobe After Effects.
summer reading 2024
As RuPaul says; reading is FUNDAMENTAL, and every year I try to put the FUN in fundamental by creating a Summer Reading video to get kids in the Arlington Heights area stoked about reading. I collaborate with youth services to create a script, storyboard out my idea, and direct, shoot and edit.
Enter if you dare: Halloween Animation
This was a project done in the spirit of Halloween! At AHML, there is a traditional competition to decorate the doors of Department Heads. The Communications + Marketing department had just gotten a new touch-screen device that would be used to help customers navigate the library, and to show it off, instead of decorating our manager’s door with physical materials, I created this animation from an illustration that my co-worker made.
Meet the Makers
I created this teaser for a video program series hosted by the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. The series featured a different artist each week in the month of December, where the artist would give a presentation on what they do, and how they are active in the creative community followed by a demonstration and Q+A where program attendees could find out more about the artist or their process. I wanted to create a teaser that showcased the artist, their work, the fact that they were local to Chicago, and an example of their vibe and process. File organization was extremely important for this project, as I had to gather a variety of media to edit this project together. The entire video was edited in Premiere Pro.
The Arlington Heights Memorial Library Book Mobile
The Arlington Heights Memorial Library Book Mobile is an integral part of carrying the library’s services out into the community. To spread awareness of the bookmobile and all it can do, I created a mini documentary outlining everything it offers to AHML’s patrons. I went out with the bookmobile’s staff over the summer of 2019 on their routes as well as special events to capture footage of the vehicle in different settings. Everything was filmed on a Canon and Nikon DSLR, using 50mm 1.4 and 24-105mm lenses, either handheld or on a shoulder rig. An on-camera RODE shotgun mic captured audio on the bus, and a RODE lav mic was used to capture audio for the voice over interview.
HARRY POTTER BOOK NIGHT
One of my tasks as the main videographer at AHML is filming events and making recap videos of them. Harry Potter Book Night is not surprisingly one of our most well-attended events, and from Quidditch to Potions there is never a dull moment in any corner of the library that night.
For this video, I animated the intro in After Effects, and assembled the clips in Adobe Premiere.
AHML’s Artist in Residence Series: Magician Jeanette Andrews
For this introduction video to 2020’s Artist in Residence series, I communicated with Jeanette via e-mail and zoom to give her direction on the delivery of her dialogue, which she filmed in her home studio. I then took her footage and intertwined it with B-Roll she provided of her performing. I also came up with custom icons for each theme category she mentions, which I designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects, as well as designed and animated the lower thirds throughout the video.
The Million Reasons - Dizzy Music Video
The Million Reasons is a true rock band from Chicago. I directed, shot, and edited this music video for them in the Spring of 2018.
THE JADES
The Jades are an bluesy folk duo made up of Katie Krenning and Kathleen Lieffers. I created this video with them as a means of promotion to give their audience a sense of who they are and an introduction to what they sound like, while also promoting a couple shows they have coming up for this Summer.
3MA STUDIOS
3 Monkeys and Aardvark Studios is as quirky as it sounds. Located in Schaumburg, Illinois, this small design agency shakes up the suburbs in a big way.
I animated the existing logo in after effects.
THERMOSAFE WEB BANNER
Thermosafe is a leader in Temperature Controlled Packaging. Using Adobe After Effects, I created an animated web banner for them to give their audience a glance at their process. The icons for each step of their process were provided to me, and it was my job to find an interesting way to bring each one to life through animation.
ANIMATED WEB AD
Thermosafe commissioned another animated gif to serve as an ad for their website and an e-mail footer. This particular ad shows off the different transport products that they offer in a sleek template style, where color is used to emphasize the difference in products, and a traveling line not only directs the viewer's eyes to read the message, but prevents the piece from becoming static and visually uninteresting.