Production Club at UWM was a student-run extracurricular program at my alma mater that at the time filled a niche of offering people the chance to work on large-scale sets that weren't necessarily the focus of the film school's curriculum at the time (UWM's film school was and is still known for its singular, avant-garde approach to filmmaking over a more industry-centered one).
I was involved with the club all four years of my undergraduate studies, starting out in sound mixing before moving on to being the lead editor for the projects in my junior and senior years. Below are those two projects and brief descriptions of my work processes, as well as a trailer for a third that I edited for the producers after the project was complete.
The first project from my alma mater's extracurricular Production Club on which I served as the lead editor (in addition to assisting with some of the Foley work and also illustrating the film's poster). I worked closely with the director and the producers to construct a tight edit within a reasonable timeframe. The short has since played at multiple film festivals, including the School Daze Film Festival in Cottage Grove, OR, where it won a jury prize.
I also edited a goofy little trailer parodying the Wolf of Wall Street trailer that was big at the time.
The second project from my alma mater's extracurricular Production Club on which I served as the lead editor. I worked closely with the producers to deliver a strong edit, utilizing cloud-based services to share footage, drafts, and notes. The short has since played at multiple film festivals both locally and internationally. I also edited the trailer, too.
I was originally just a sound mixer during the initial production of the short, but the producers contacted me in the fall of 2014 to make a trailer for this after they saw my Space Cadets parody trailer. It was a pretty quick turnaround. I wanted to emphasize the character's solitude as a claustrophobic collapse of sorts.