WRITER, SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER, PRODUCER EDITOR, COMPOSER, ANIMATOR, SOUND DESIGNER, ARTIST, JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES
WRITER, SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER, PRODUCER EDITOR, COMPOSER, ANIMATOR, SOUND DESIGNER, ARTIST, JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES
I’m a Michigan-based Social Media Content Producer experienced in front-to-end content creation from strategy & writing, to producing & filming, to editing & thumbnail design to publishing & marketing.
I have been a Video Editor for individual creators (TwoSetViolin & more), managed video production and publishing for businesses (Haptix Studio) and managed entire teams of editors for large-scale social media projects (Outloud Media).
Keep scrolling for a breakdown of these roles and a portfolio of my many client projects. Thank you!
Who am I?
For my recent 3-month contract as Social Media Manager for Haptix Studio, I worked with this Lansing-based animation company to showcase their motion capture volume and their growing virtual production set-up.
For my shortform content strategy, I researched, wrote, and performed in educational and comedic shorts that would outlast a trend-based approach. In my short time with Haptix, I produced multiple viral shorts and netted them over 4000 followers across platforms!
For their upcoming ‘Mocap Stunt Sizzler’, I edited, scored and sound designed the video, and used Unreal Engine to created the cinematics myself (using the animation from the mocap shoot).
Haptix Studio
In 2023-24, I had the privilege of working as Video Editor for TwoSetViolin, one of my favorite YouTube channels. Brett & Eddy are a Classical Music duo making comedy content for their over-4 Million subscribers.
Working remotely for the Singapore-based duo, every week I edited a 15+ minute video, designed an eye-catching thumbnail, and adapted the longform videos into short Reels for their TikTok & IG audiences.
TwoSetViolin
In my former role as Managing Editor at Outloud Media, I led a 25+ member team of Lead, Sr. & Jr. Video Editors and created the digital infrastructure (via Salesforce and Google Suite) required to collectively edit & publish over 500 videos/month.
Through extensive research and ad-based video experiments, I analyzed cross-platform videos and test data to formulate our social media videos' structure.
As one of the first members of the media publishing endeavor, I am proud to share that we started from scratch with 5 creators and grew to manage over 40 pages, amassing over 180 million monthly views across Facebook Watch.
Outloud Media
Shooting a Feature in Michigan
In 2021, I served as Associate Producer on the feature film Hayseed (dir. Travis Burgess). On this fast-paced production I hired essential production crew roles (2nd AD, COVID Compliance Officer, Set Builders), managed a team of 10+ Production Assistants in order to meet the various needs of several departments, and communicated with/assisted high-profile talent to maintain on-set morale.
Produced by American Bravado and acquired for distribution by Good Deed Entertainment, Hayseed was released in theaters and on the web in November 2023.
Throughout 2024, I produced the TV Pilot for a comedy series called “Portraits of Poppy”. After self-funding the $25,000 budget, I wrote, directed, edited, scored, sound-designed, and created additional animation for this massive project.
“Portraits of Poppy” premiered at Capital City Film Festival this past April and was recently featured in the Lansing State Journal. It is currently making the rounds in the festival circuit.
Portraits of Poppy
Production Work with Chop & Hue
Since 2022, I’ve worked on several projects with the team at Chop & Hue, a Grand Rapids-based production house. I’ve served as Production Assistant on commercials for Bissell, Hand2Mind, Amway, Saugatuck-Davis Tourism, and more!
In 2023, I had my first partnership with the Lansing-based motion capture studio Haptix Studio to write, direct and produce a 5-minute pre-viz (“previsualization”) film based on one of my screenplays titled “Big Red”.
I wrote, casted, directed, scored and edited the film, as well as utilized Unreal Engine’s sequencer function to capture the shots within the Unreal project that Haptix created. Certainly a project to remember!
Exploring Motion Capture!
It’s time for a change of seasons with our second musical film, Aubin & Lucius. In this short musical film, two forest spirits (and best friends) have a falling out and must navigate their own growing pains and anxieties with love and life before trying to reconnect.
Myself, my producer Tessa MacDonald, our team of associate producers, and 30+ cast and crew members spent 3 months in the summer of 2021 filming this project, shot entirely on location (and outside) in Mid-Michigan in East Lansing, Grand Ledge, and Holt.
This is my first fully-scored project as a film composer.
Aubin & Lucius
Movies and musicals just make sense together! The Movie Musical is one of my favorite mediums and with The Moneytree (2021), we finally made one. Moneytree is the first project produced & released by my production company, River Magnus Productions.
Myself, my co-producer Sarah Kutchinski and 20+ other cast and crew members trekked through the wintery wilderness to produce this musical, mythological tale, which you can view below: