Visual Productions

Found Footage

This creative project was built around Around Me by Metro Boomin and Don Toliver. I wanted to explore creativity through found footage by creating a full visual experience using clips sourced from legal public archives, licensed footage libraries, and online video platforms. Instead of filming original scenes, I focused on how editing, pacing, atmosphere, and visual selection could create emotion and meaning.

The goal was to make the video feel immersive, cinematic, and emotionally connected to the music while showing how powerful visuals and creative direction can be through curation alone. I experimented with transitions, rhythm-based cuts, color, and mood to bring different visuals together into one cohesive vision. This project expanded my understanding of creative direction, visual branding, editing, and how music and visuals can work together to create a strong emotional experience.

RedRum Final

This creative project was built around Redrum by 21 Savage and was fully created from scratch alongside a team of friends. The vision behind the project was to create a dark, intense, and cinematic visual experience that matched the energy and atmosphere of the music while still feeling raw and authentic. I wanted every scene, transition, and camera movement to add to the emotion and pacing of the video rather than just acting as background visuals.

Compared to my Around Me found footage project, which focused more on atmosphere, editing, and curated visuals, this project brought a completely different level of intensity and hands-on creativity. Instead of building emotion through archived clips and visual curation, Redrum pushed me into creating original scenes, directing shots, working with lighting, and building energy directly through production and camera work.

Working on this project expanded my creativity and changed the way I look at videography, editing, and creative production. It pushed me to think more deeply about directing, shot composition, pacing, lighting, and how visuals and sound work together to create impact. Beyond the technical side, the experience also showed me how much coordination, planning, and creative vision go into producing content within the entertainment industry.

This documentary-style creative project was one of my first experiences creating something centered around emotion, pacing, and audience connection. Unlike the dark intensity and hands-on production of redrum or the atmospheric found footage style used with Around Me, this project pushed me to think deeper about how to bring viewers into the experience through narration, visuals, and original music.

One of the biggest creative challenges was producing and voicing the project myself. At the time, I was not fully comfortable hearing my own voice, but the process helped me grow creatively and become more confident expressing ideas through different forms of media. Creating the music and shaping the emotional tone of the video helped me better understand how sound, visuals, editing, and pacing can all work together to create a stronger connection with an audience.

Looking back, this project became an important foundation for my later creative work. It helped shape the way I approached the cinematic production and energy behind Redrum while also influencing the emotional atmosphere and visual flow I explored in the Around Me found footage project.