Video Production

Musical Theatre Mash

 

It’s no secret that I love musical theatre. Always have and always will. In 2013 I began a hobby YouTube channel as an outlet for my musical theatre joy. Fast forward a few years and what started as a small hobby now has nearly 50k subscribers, over 4 million views, I’ve started a podcast (Jim and Tomic’s Musical Theatre Happy Hour), and been invited to cover musical cast recording events (a dream come true for someone not living in New York).

Musical theatre commentary has always felt like a pretty niche corner of the internet and I’m forever grateful to have found my own little corner on YouTube.

 

Digital Theatre

 

Urinetown

In January and February of 2021, the coronavirus pandemic forced our winter musical to go online – but that didn’t stop us from having a good time!

Rehearsals moved to zoom, green screens and at-home recording setups were assembled, and I spearheaded devising technical solutions to make the show the best it can be. Recorded in students bedrooms, living rooms, and basements, this entire cast did not record any of this show synchronously. Plus, they all had to pre-record all of the vocals and singing months before filming any video.

Over the course of a few short months, I cut together hundreds of separately recorded singing and dialogue tracks, managed and categorized a mountain of video footage filmed on student’s phones, and assembled it into this digital musical.

 

School Videos

 

Digital Assemblies, Graduations and more…

During the end of the 2019-2020 school year and the entirety of the 2020-2021 school year, I was tasked with devising creative, socially distanced ways to replicate my schools traditional “in-person” activities. From live broadcast daily assemblies to pre-recorded and edited graduation ceremonies, I produced hundreds of videos over the course of two years – often with very tight production schedules.

For student privacy reasons, there isn’t much I can share publicly. But please enjoy this title sequence I created for our synchronous, live-streamed assemblies.