YouTube

Since middle school, I've had a passion for recording and uploading YouTube videos. Over time, it became less about recording myself playing games and more about the editing process. In fact, some of my proudest works were created for YouTube. From creative ways to display everyday footage to montages of other people's clips, I have a vast history of YouTube videos that have looked more and more professional over the years.

You can view each of the embedded videos in full screen.

Intros

One of the things I take the most pride in is my ability to edit intros for my videos. This often starts with finding a song, and the editing and style of the intro stems from there. My biggest concerns are matching cuts to the beats to create something that feels alive and finding or recording background materials to enhance the intro. These are important because the entire point of making a good intro is to capture the attention of the viewer, and if I can't find a good lead to the video, I can always fall back on my editing magic here.

Edited Content

I love to record and edit videos. My goal is to create content that is entertaining by doing meaningful editing. There's too much YouTube content out there that's unedited and tedious to sit through, and I hope to get creative and form my own style when producing mine.

I agreed to edit the videos for a friend, and this is the most elaborate editing job I've done for her. For this 3b Minecraft series, I've focused on maintaining a style across all her videos and trying to keep videos brief by cutting anything absolutely unnecessary. For this video, I turned nearly 2 hours of raw footage into just over 41 minutes.

This short video actually started as a class project during my junior year of college. The class was Video Art, a course where we broke the boundaries of what a traditional video is. I took the idea of nostalgia for a game I played with my friends growing up and reminiscing over the memories we had and tried to turn it into something useful. This was the first, but certainly not last time, I applied the techniques of film to a virtual space.

This is a video I edited for a client, serving as the finale for this series. This video is action-packed and fast-paced, despite having relatively few cuts to show for it. On the editing side, I built up suspense using just sound effects and music; for example, I use music to make a stealthy scene very, very tense.

Here is another montage, this time on a larger scale. Top 10 videos are fairly common on YouTube, and they involve ranking the best in a category. In this one, I essentially made ten individual montages. It's one thing to edit your own content but editing together clips from up to five or six different creators into a story YOU want to tell is another kind of thrill. My goal was to communicate why I thought these virtual battles were among the best in the category.