"Let Us Breathe" (Documentary, 2021)
During spring 2021, I directed, shot, and edited a 15-minute documentary film with three other students. The film won the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award in the College Student Production (Short Form) category.
"Let Us Breathe" focuses on the relocation of scrap metal plant General Iron from Lincoln Park to the Southeast Side of Chicago. The film primarily follows high school student activists and youth community organizers on the Southeast Side working to combat environmental racism in their neighborhoods. The efforts of the student activists have already seen some national press, and you can read a Teen Vogue piece written by two of the students here.
Motion graphics
Created with Adobe After Effects.
Making Light of Staying at Home (interactive, 2023)
An interactive version of a service story I reported/wrote in 2021. I've always loved learning about interior design and living space hacks, and this was a fun story to write. After living in dorms for two years and then off campus housing, I realized how big of a difference lighting could make (and how inexpensive/simple it could be).
Tools: HTML/CSS, Codepen
Initial thoughts and brainstorming
As my first large-scale project after learning the ropes of responsive web design, I wanted to fully incorporate at least 3 different interactive components into this piece.
I first sketched out a rough storyboard of what I wanted the story to look like. (It started off a bit too ambitious for a first project.)
At the end, I decided I wanted to keep the interactive light switch title, the light temperature scale, and a shopping button.