The Beginning

Since I received my first smartphone in freshman year of high school, I became familiar with social media and the creative things you can find. I was very into soccer related posts on social media such as instagram and at the time, vine. I became interested in soccer edits where people would upload 7 second soccer highlights with background music in sync with the video. I took my cheap android phone and did my research on video editing apps and how to access these highlights. After much thought and research I gave it a shot. I would download highlights from player performances to amazing goals and edit it them in sync with either edm or rap music. My first ever post on social media was a 7 second compilation on famous soccer legend, Ronaldinho showcasing his best skills and goals. At first, I did not care about how much engagement I received, this was just something new I wanted to try. Soon I would upload constantly after school and started to see followers and likes on vine. This was my first experience on being creative digitally,

Fast forward to a year later I gained 10K plus followers on vine and I was very proud of how far I came, but during this time vine was soon to be an extinct platform. I switched to instagram and I liked it because it was becoming popular and I also liked how video posts were at 15 seconds compared to the 7 seconds on vine. Posting content on instagram made me love editing so much that I wanted to expand my knowledge in software instead of apps and to challenge myself to make edits no one has seen before. When I got my first laptop on my 15th birthday I was instantly eager to see what this machine can do editing wise. I downloaded the trial version of Final Cut Pro X and tried my best to master this software. Once I got familiar with FCPX I wanted to know more so I downloaded Adobe After Effects. This by far was the most fun to use software because it is more advanced and the effects made in AE were top notch. Couple years later after posting regularly, in 2017, I reached my greatest milestone yet. 50k+ followers on instagram and my top viewed video was 150k views.

In senior year of high-school, I started to think more about my future. once i was done with high-school I wanted to do something fun, something creative digitally. I enrolled in the graphic design program in 2018 since during that time I took a digital media class and I loved it. While I already applied, I also found a new passion, Music Production. I was fascinated by how rap instrumentals were the core of a hit song everybody loves. Till this day I still create and upload beats to my website, dedicating my free time to practicing my craft and market my music. I am now in my last semester of the graphic design program and I’ve enjoyed it. After this program I plan to work on music, video editing/production, and create designs for clients. I believe freelancing will give me the opportunity to do what I love best.

This is my story to how I am in this program. I have to thank social media for how much it revolutionized our daily lives and giving me the opportunity to try something new that has become a passion to me.