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For the 2022 mid-term elections I project managed the production and post-production of an ambitious video ad campaign to elect and re-elect Progressive Democrats in Washington’s 3rd and 8th Congressional Districts. It really was an all hands on deck project. Our Campaign and Organizing teams found and recruited volunteers who were willing to be on camera and invite us into their homes. My Director, of the Communications Hub, wrote most of the scripts. Our Digital Campaigns Manager drove us all around the state and was my acting “sous chef” with helping setting up equipment and shooting b-roll. My role in all of this was to make sure everything looked and sounded amazing, and got processed and published on a very tight quick turn around schedule.

I filmed seven different interviews, producing 30 seconds, 15 seconds, and 6 seconds ads that ran digitally in places like YouTube and Facebook. I shot everything on a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k with the Rode Wireless Go and Rode Video Mic Pro as our back up audio source. I worked with a small light kit (non-profit budget means getting creative), a LED panel video light, a ring light I borrowed from our Digital Campaigns Manager who makes all our Tik Toks, and a few 5 in 1 reflectors and diffusors. I worked in DaVinci Resolve, Premier Pro, AfterEffects, and tiny bit in Audition. I cut, color corrected, enhanced audio, added animation and effects when necessary, cut and edited background music, and scoured the internet for usable b-roll of our hopeful Democrats and Republican challengers.