A collection of five short films created for JOUR 58803 — Advanced Multimedia Storytelling, taught by Professor Larry Foley.
Over the course of the semester, I explored narrative nonfiction through photography, archival material, audio design and cinematic editing.
Each project reflects a different facet of multimedia storytelling—community, memory, place, identity and emotional resonance—culminating in a digital portfolio showcasing my work and growth.
Below are the five multimedia stories that comprise my final portfolio.
1. Hamilton Reel
This first project focused on the art of the short-form narrative: how to compress emotion, rhythm and meaning into a tightly structured video reel. Hamilton Reel explores the energy of campus life through movement, pacing, and musicality, emphasizing visual storytelling over dialogue. As an opening assignment, it established my foundation for sequencing, thematic framing, and matching imagery to sound.
2. Roll for Community
This piece examines the powerful bonds formed within the tabletop gaming communities at Gear Gaming.
Roll for Community blends interview audio with intimate photographic and video moments, showing how shared worlds and shared stories build belonging. The project challenged me to mix documentary observation with emotional tone, capturing not just what these players do, but why it matters to them.
3. Soundtrack Sunday
Soundtrack Sunday explores the way music shapes memory. Built around curated audio layers and a vinyl collector’s enthusiams, the project examines how a single song or genre can anchor us to a moment in time.
This assignment pushed my skills in sound design using tone, rhythm, and careful audio mixing to guide narrative flow and evoke nostalgia.
4. How We Remember
Story 4 — November 18/20
How We Remember traces a walk through Edinburgh with friends, blending the city’s atmospheric streets, stone textures and shifting light with reflections on how we hold one another in memory. The project pairs travel footage with intimate moments of companionship, exploring how place becomes inseparable from the people who shared it with us. Through pacing, sound, and visual contrast the film considers the way travel sharpens our sense of identity and how memory turns fleeting experiences into enduring stories, even if we remember something incorrectly.
5. Pax Americana: Analog to AI
Story 5 — December 2/4
The final project is the culmination of the semester’s thematic evolution. Pax Americana revisits images from my exchange year abroad, pairing scanned physical photographs with AI-enhanced versions and motion experiments created in Runway. The piece examines nostalgia, distance, and the shifting nature of memory, how technology reframes the past, and how returning later transforms the meaning of what we once documented. It stands as both a personal reflection and a commentary on the modern relationship between analog experience and digital reinterpretation.