Visual Storytelling
Video Editor
To illustrate a story's emotion and meaning, I perform the following tasks: selecting the shots, cutting, arranging the shots, transitioning, titling, adjusting the colors (as needed), and adjusting the audio (such as dialogue, interview clips, narration, sound effects, and music).
Sample Edits
Documentary Sample Edit
I created this version of a documentary trailer during my DaVinci Resolve training. I recut the shots, arranged the shots, and applied transitions and titling. Unsatisfied with simply completing the basic edit, I refined it until it looked and sounded as good as the official trailer. I even adjusted individual sounds and words, wherever needed, to improve the sound quality and consistency. I replaced the original theme music with Jazmine Sullivan's "Lions, Tigers & Bears." No copyright infringement or commercial distribution is intended.
"Get on Up: The Music Videos"
In this video, I experimented with making some scenes gloomier to fit their themes and with making the colors (e.g., shiny outfits, backgrounds, and musical instruments) pop much more than usual in other scenes.
I performed other edits such as reducing the shadows in the actors' faces. No copyright infringement or commercial distribution is intended.
"Shaolin Prince: The Fresh Cut"
This is a parody of, and a tribute to, the Shaw Bros. kung fu film "Shaolin Prince."
No copyright infringement or commercial distribution is intended.
"Golden Arm: The Secret of Iron Feet" (Version 2)
This is a parody of, and a tribute to, the Shaw Bros. kung fu film "Kid with the Golden Arm." I provided a full voiceover for Golden Arm and only made a slight voiceover change for Iron Feet in this version. No copyright infringement or commercial distribution is intended.
"Golden Arm: The Secret of Iron Feet" (Version 1)
This is a parody of, and a tribute to, the Shaw Bros. kung fu film "Kid with the Golden Arm." I provided full voiceovers for both Golden Arm and Iron Feet in this version. No copyright infringement or commercial distribution is intended.
Screenplay Analyst and Coverage Writer
Judge. UFVA Carole Fielding Grants (proposals and scripts). University Film & Video Association (UFVA) Conference. 2021 - present.
Judge. Scriptwriting Contest. University Film & Video Association (UFVA) Conference. 2013 - present.
Script Analysis/Script Coverage. Freelance. 2011 - present.
Script Coverage. Baltimore Screenwriters Competition. 2011 - 2013.
Script Analysis for Black October: Off the Pusher (based on the novel Black October: Off the Pusher by James Crawley, III). 2011.
Script Analysis for Full Circle (based on the novel Eyes of the Beholder by Barbara A. Robinson). 2011.
Film Festivals and Internships
Marketing and Distribution, Filmsnoir Motion Pictures. Duties: Screening and representing Prodigal in the Short Film Corner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival; identifying and corresponding with potential distributors; promoting projects towards the goal of branding and reaching the target audience. Prodigal is a short film and a feature-length script written and directed by Darryl Wharton-Rigby.
Creative Minds in Cannes Internship Experience Program. Cannes Film Festival. May 2012. This was an internship with Panorama, the international sales branch of Annapurna Pictures, at the Cannes Film Festival.