'Return on Interns' was a video created during my time at AbelsonTaylor, which I made in collaboration with our Art Director and Copy interns, Eva Topelewski and Laura Pomilia. The goal of this project was to make an introductory 'meet the interns' video to present to the entire company at their yearly summer presentation. As AbelsonTaylor is a large company of 300+ employees, with a majority of them being remote workers, the company's executives wanted an opportunity for the rest of the company to properly get to know their summer interns.
The theme we centered around was creating the video in the style of a Wes Anderson film, in keeping with popular social media trends at the time. We spent extensive time researching and planning shots in the style of Wes Anderson's films, and decided to focus on showing the random quirks of each intern, in true Wes Anderson style.
All of the in-office videos were shot by myself, with the out-of-office shots made by individual interns under strict direction from the production team. The voiceover was generously done by Steve Holtzman, one of our copywriters.
The video was a rousing success at the summer presentation, with many employees saying it was the highlight of the entire presentation! This is easily one of my favorite video projects to have directed and created, and shows that creativity and passion can abound in any agency setting.
All video editing, audio editing, color grading, and motion graphics were created by myself, using After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, and Adobe Audition.