ABOUT ME

私はエミリーです。はじめまして！よろしくお願いします。

I am a graduate student at Ball State University, pursuing an M.A. in the Department of Media's Digital Storytelling Program. I completed a graduate assistantship at the David Owsley Museum of Art, where my role was to create video content, graphics, and advertising for the museum. In my free time, I acted as the Secretary for the Ball State student group Frog Baby Film Festival, the university's student film festival.

I received my B.A. from Ball State University in 2019 in Telecommunications with a concentration in Film and Media Studies and graduated with minors in both Japanese and Professional Writing in Emerging Media. During this time, I was a member of the student volunteer group Music and Memory and the campus organization Women in Tech. I was both Senior Reviews Editor and Editor-In-Chief for Byte Magazine, an online entertainment publication hosted within the Journalism Department's Unified Media Lab. 

Currently, I write feature articles for Static Media's websites, Looper.com and SVG.com. I love writing about film and video-game-related topics. However, my favorite content to pursue is anything within the scope of horror genre news and history. Most of my academic research involves modern horror subjects, so I am deeply interested in researching and writing about the topic.

I first became interested in videography when I was in middle school and would create animated music videos using Microsoft Paint, Windows Movie Maker, and whatever music I could get my hands on. My friends and I would also shoot short scripted videos using cheap camcorders and upload them to YouTube, thinking we were absolutely hilarious. But once I got my hands on Macromedia Flash 7 and a copy of Adobe Photoshop 4 using my Bat Mitzvah money, I tried my hands at more complicated animation techniques, making my own 10-minute videos and animated music videos based on the Erin Hunter Warrior Cats book series.

While these primitive YouTube animations were nothing noteworthy, creating them taught me the basics of voice recording, outlining scripts, keyframing, audio editing, and post-production, all things I discovered I loved. Animation was never my first love, but the hobby did teach me the important fundamentals of production that I still utilize today. Ultimately, videography and post-production were both creative outlets I did find the most fulfilling and what I wanted to continue pursuing. Even throughout high school, when given the creative space, I would turn in comedic video projects that, luckily for me, always resulted in laughs from my peers. This ultimately pushed me to pursue media theory and production at university and a production internship at WFYI Indianapolis. 

Today, I am most interested in documentary filmmaking. I eagerly jump onto projects highlighting modern and historical instances of injustice and promoting equality. I believe that documentary is a form of activism, and the film medium is an excellent tool to amplify the voices of those who experience injustice. Through the medium of film, I aim to diversify the library of media to further empower a diverse, wide range of subjects on the screen. 
 

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