Other Narrative Experience

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Narrative Designer and Animator July 20 - August 6, 2023

Society of Play "Pompous Trash II Game Jam"

• Wrote lore and dialogue for the Trashja Msofdsop game, which won in the Overall category for the jam.

• Animated all witness characters for the visual novel SOP Court. 

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Narrative Designer and Game Designer Feb 18 - March 1, 2022

Society of Play "Inspire Game Jam"

• Expanded on the world of Teritium from a previous jam in a new lore book. 

• Created a hypothetical battle area game called "Legends of Teritium," inspired heavily by the show Arcane on Netflix and the game League of Legends.

• There was a lot of time spent on creating game mechanics and philosophy, so the quality of this lore book is not equal to the previous Teritium book. But the text is still something I'm proud of.

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Narrative Designer July 08 - July 22, 2021

Society of Play "Pompous Trash Game Jam"

• Collaborated with Boxhead Games and other game enthusiasts to create indie game "Teritium."

• Created the game lore including names, world, and backstory, based on game mechanics and designer input.

• Designed and did layout for the lore book that is included with the game distribution, images by Jose Esquivel.

• Revised lore to match game play.

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​Animation Creative Processes

University of Texas at Dallas, Fall 2017

• Drew storyboards (both digitally and traditionally) for original stories that met criteria set by professor.

• Used visual story telling techniques and cinematography to portray each story.

• Created a 30 second animatic illustrating the abstract idea of greed, including all story ideas, storyboards, artwork, sound design, digital composition in After Effects and Adobe Premier, and final rendering. 

• Final project was Penguin Greed Story​

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Creating TV and Movie Scripts

University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2017

• Generated script ideas and written scripts for one spec script and one original script, each for an hour long show.

• Read other students' work and gave constructive criticism.

• Worked with professor to revise and rework original pilot script for submission to the 2018 Austin Film Festival.

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Creating Short Fiction

University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2016

• Generated original story ideas for two short stories (20-30 pages).

• Submitted a short story for publication, and continuing to look for the right market.

• Befriended one other student, and stayed in contact to critique each other's stories after the class was done.

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Narrative Consultant for Student Film

University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2016

• Volunteered to help a student work out his story idea for an animated short film.

• Worked with idea originator to make story the best it could, including discussion of key shot compositions.

• Presented progress on story to class as part of the team working on this short film.

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Motion Capture

University of Texas at Dallas, Fall 2015

• Edited script for an animated short our class created using motion capture technology.

• Consulted on story elements to improve script.

• Resolved issues that team members had with the script.

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Utah National Guard

Iraq, November 2005 - November 2006

• Wrote press releases , telling the story of what our unit had accomplished.

• Wrote historical reports for the Utah National Guard.

• Took pictures to supplement the stories I wrote.    

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Leading Edge Production Co-Director

Brigham Young University, November 2003 - March 2005

• Directed layout and design of magazine in Quark XPress.

• Copyfit pieces for magazine including inserting artwork.

• Organize fiction, nonfiction, editorials, and all other parts of magazine and prepare file for printer.

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Philosophy and Film

Brigham Young University, Winter 2007

• Consulted on a script the class used to shoot a digital storyboard.

• Provided support with props and set up during shoots.

• Edited final stills and sound in Final Cut Pro to produce digital storyboard for final presentation to professor.

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Philosophy and Literature

Brigham Young University, Fall 2004 - Winter 2005

• Wrote a literary feature length film script with multiple story lines.

• Served as paid writer after script was chosen for further revisions for a second semester. 

• Continued to revise script even after the semesters ended.

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Publication Lab Tutor

Brigham Young University, September 2004 - April 2006

• Tutored students and members of the community on how to get published.

• Submitted a piece to be published each semester.

• Stayed up to date on current publishing trends.

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