Some other things I’m okay at:
Video Editing:
I’ve got a long-held personal passion for filmmaking. In addition to countless personal projects, I studied video editing and shooting during my journalism education. I have a working knowledge of Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere and some Final Cut Pro. Below are a couple examples of my video work.
Content Management and Web Producing:
I created a local news website called Chi-Town Review in January 2013. The goal was to test the digital publishing skills I was learning as a grad student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Currently inactive since January 2015, Chi-Town Review was a local news site that featured Chicago news stories about topics that actually matter to the city’s residents. My goal was to produce CTR stories in various alternative and digital formats, including JavaScript data visualization, tweet curation and infographics. I experimented with a variety of online storytelling tools, such as Storify and TimelineJS.
Several leading local news professionals and organizations, such as the Chicago Sun-Times, DNAinfo Chicago and WTTW, are following @ChiTownRVW on Twitter. In April 2013, DNAinfo Chicago even produced a story based on a Chi-Town Review exclusive. Influential education bloggers for Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune platforms have also shared Chi-Town Review exclusives.
Project Management:
During my capstone innovation project at Medill I worked with classmates to design, from the ground up, a mobile-based travel guide called Sojourn. Sojourn combined multimedia storytelling with tourism, while appealing to users’ “hyper-passions.” In addition to contributing ideas, designing the logo and serving on the research and design teams, I served as co-project manager and led the presentation team. Here is the promo video I shot, directed and edited for the project: