TAYLOR WHITESEL | VIDEOGRAPHY
2019 VIDEO REEL
SKILLS
MOTION GRAPHICS
ANIMATIONS AND TITLES
I have been working with motion graphics for about a year now, but it’s something that I was able to pick up pretty easy and progress with. I am proficient in After Effects and it’s non-linear/layer style editing format and have been able to produce content such as animations, lower thirds, and titles. I also have experience with keyframe animation in Premiere and Animate.
POST PRODUCTION
EDITING, SOUND DESIGN, COLOR
Post production is my specialty. I love taking a film or video project and bringing it to life in a visually appealing way. I have about FIVE years experience with Premiere and use it as my primary source of linear editing. I then tweak the audio and compose music in Logic Pro X, and finally import the project to DaVinci Resolve for color correction/grading
CINEMATOGRAPHY
B-ROLL, EXPERIMENTAL, DRONE SHOTS
Cinematography is a skill that I picked up moderately late. Over the last year and a half, I have worked with different DSLR’s while understanding their mechanics; I’ve setup multiple productions that included lighting, camera angles, and audio equipment; And, I have experimented with different styles of film including, aerial shots, multi-media installations, and b-roll.
LATEST PROJECTS
DOCUMENTARY / Feature film
A GENTRIFIED GENERATION
DESCRIPTION
A Documentary that makes a statement about the current gentrification process going on in the Tampa Area. Through this medium, I hope to spread awareness for one of the most impending factors effecting the status of the city. This documentary was part of a grant awarded to me at the beginning of the 2019 spring semester by Film Tampa Bay in which they gave me $1,000 to further help my creative process for this film. Looking back, it really allowed me to make the best possible film I could for a school project.
PROCESS
PROMOTIONAL CONTENT
BARRIEHAUS BEER co.
DESCRIPTION
Promotional content I did for a startup craft brewery in Ybor. These videos were used on the website also developed by me and were apart of the “Beer Profile” marketing plan. This showed a the beer being self poured along with an extensive report of that particular beer being showcased. A big purpose of the “Beer Profiles” was to make the beers as visually appealing as possible. Aside from the recent growth in population regarding the subject, Craft beer is still a small marketplace. That’s why I found it important to utilize video to not only showcase the beer in all of its glory, but to also provide the user with information that will ultimately allow them to learn more about the overall, craft-beer world. This was part of a Student Marketing/Advertising agency run by University of Tampa. It was not only counted as course credit, but also an internship.
PROCESS
PROMOTIONAL CONTENT
OCEAN ONE
DESCRIPTION
A promotional advertisement for my friend’s job at Ocean One. The objective was to gain more attraction to the company by emphasizing the utilization of creative underwater filming. My friend and I agreed that the relationship between the person and his/her passion with underwater life had to be strongly emphasized which is what I focused on when filming and brainstorming a creative direction.
PROCESS
EXPERIMENTAL
WHO CARES
DESCRIPTION/STATEMENT
An experimental, personal narrative done for my Multimedia Art/Installation class during the 2018 fall semester. The assignment had us combine and utilize the power of video by filming a narrative with a narrative installation environment as our setting. I chose to focus on something that was very personal to me that I’m not too public about: My Coming Out Process. Not really the confrontation of it, but rather the last remaining months of being in the closet and what it felt like to be trapped in such a setting. That’s what I hope this video portrays well.
PROCESS
For the videos, I recorded my friends talking highly negative in regards to the discovery of my sexuality. I tend to get in my own head sometimes and think things are a lot worse than they actually are. These videos do a great job of representing what was going on in my head while in the closet. I also decided to project some text based motion graphics I created in After Effects in hopes to further convey my emotions with this project. Since I was forced to be the main actor, I had my friend film. However, I was very strict on what I wanted which ultimately led to having to redo shots constantly.
MOTION GRAPHICS
WHAT IS GENTRIFICATION?
A 30 second animation done in After Effects that visually describes the definition of gentrification and what it does to a population. It was one of five other motion graphics/animations done for my latest documentary.
TAMPA | HISTORY LESSON
Another 30 second animation that tells the story of how the city of Tampa went from a small town, to a tourist fantasy with the help of the cigar industry. This was another animation done for my latest documentary.
PRODUCTION COMPANY LOGO
A quick 15 second intro based video assignment that had us take a logo we made and animate it in After Effects.
Promotional content I did for a startup craft brewery in Ybor. These videos were used on the website also developed by me and were apart of the “Beer Profile” marketing plan. This showed a the beer being self poured along with an extensive report of that particular beer being showcased. For each beer, there is a video that plays introducing the beer to the viewer. These animated titles were created in After Effects
A promotional video I did for Sheraton Sand Key who were clients of my last marketing internship, HCP Associates. This video acted as the main guestroom video and plays on the TV's in all of the rooms. I put together the slide show and also added motion graphic titles that best followed the company's style guidelines.
I used to run a YouTube channel under the name, TaylorsTutorials in which I would get paid to make video editing, web, and graphics tutorials. This was the latest production intro I was using before the channel went inactive. It's a short and to the point intro and was thrown together in After Effects utilizing Red Giant's Trapcode Particular.
POST PRODUCTION
REFLECTION | EDITING EXERCISE
This was a video editing project done in AVID Media Composer. We were given a selection of cuts and takes for a stock personal narrative and had to edit the film to the best of our ability based off of the script.
FINDING YOUR PASSION
For this assignment, we were asked to create a three minute documentary using AVID Media Composer. We were given directory of stock footage to work with and the ability to chose what creative direction we wanted to take.
OCEAN ONE ADVERTISEMENT
A promotional advertisement for my friend’s job at Ocean One. The objective was to gain more attraction to the company by emphasizing the utilization of creative underwater filming. My friend and I agreed that the relationship between the person and his/her passion with underwater life had to be strongly emphasized which is what I focused on when filming and brainstorming a creative direction.
A Documentary that makes a statement about the current gentrification process going on in the Tampa Area. Through this medium, I hope to spread awareness for one of the most impending factors effecting the status of the city. This documentary was part of a grant awarded to me at the beginning of the 2019 spring semester by Film Tampa Bay in which they gave me $1,000 to further help my creative process for this film. Looking back, it really allowed me to make the best possible film I could for a school project.
A video deconstruction done for my Art and Technology class. The video conveys one of the busiest streets near the house I used to live in. Each car that drives by is matched up and aligned with the beat of a song (also composed by me).
One of the first video projects done during my undergrad. This assignment had us utilize the power of animation to create an artistic statement of our choice. Being a homesick freshman, I decided to relate it to the feeling of never forgetting on where your first home and friends are. The video is a frame by frame animation comprised of over 1500 frames and includes styles such as 'Stop Motion', 'Go-Pro Shots' and 'Rotoscoping'. All of the animation was done in Photoshop and the video was edited together using Sony Vegas/Premiere.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
DRONE SHOTS
For my latest documentary, I was really eager to film some drone shots of Tampa. I unfortunately didn't have a drone. So, I reached out to one of my classmates who had one and I directed and navigated to him exactly where I wanted the drone to be flown. The results were stunning.
WHO CARES
An experimental, personal narrative done for my Multimedia Art/Installation class during the 2018 fall semester. The assignment had us combine and utilize the power of video by filming a narrative with a narrative installation environment as our setting. I chose to focus on something that was very personal to me that I’m not too public about: My Coming Out Process. Not really the confrontation of it, but rather the last remaining months of being in the closet and what it felt like to be trapped in such a setting. That’s what I hope this video portrays well.
