Ask a Professor After Effects & Premiere Pro - 2025-2026

Ask-a-Professor is a series made for the UCLA Housing YouTube channel, meant to provide students with insight into different subjects offered at the university, directly from professors. In contrast to most of the short-form content made for UCLA's social media, this longer-form video demonstrates some of the more extensive projects that the Media Team undertakes.

During my time working with Student Affairs, I have been heavily involved in reviving the YouTube channel and this series in particular. For this first episode, I edited older footage that had gone untouched for some time, created motion graphics for the questions and title sequence, and designed the thumbnail.

I went on to film and edit future episodes, and I created a Premiere Pro/After Effects template guide, complete with instructions, to ensure other team members can replicate the established format of the videos. Many team members had no previous experience working with After Effects, so I hosted various post-production workshops to promote our team's professional development and continued learning.

Episode One filmed by Julia Devora
Ask-a-Professor logo designed by Ronald Lu

Bruin on the Street Premiere Pro - 2025-2026

Bruin on the Street is a weekly series hosted on the UCLA Student Life Instagram where our team asks students around campus various questions, often related to timely university or cultural events. The short-form videos are meant to engage with the student body and foster community across campus, both in-person and online.

I filmed Fall 2025 Episode 2, “What is Your Dream Study Rotation?”, and I was the editor for Fall 2025 Episode 8, “Think or Thank?”.

Episode 2 edited by Sharon Chen
Episode 8 filmed by Taylor Lankford
Thumbnails by Elise Chee

Hill's Kitchen Premiere Pro - 2026

Hill's Kitchen is a series hosted on the UCLA Student Life and UCLA Housing Instagram pages where our team gets a student to cook for them. The videos play off shows like Hell's Kitchen, Chicken Shop Date, and the “paying strangers to cook for me” trend on social media. These various references draw in student viewers while making the content still feel hyper-local, given the UCLA twists.

By showcasing what students can cook, we also showcase the kitchens available in various student housing locations (located on “the hill”) and what food is possible to make beyond the student dining halls. I was the editor for this second episode, “Kenzo's Pie Day”.

Episode filmed by Taylor Lankford
Thumbnail and title animation by Elise Chee

Choose Your Bruin After Effects & Premiere Pro - 2025

Choose Your Bruin was a one-off project I came up with for the UCLA Student Life Instagram to parody the Super Smash Bros “choose your character” trend on social media. Through this trending pop culture reference, we were able to engage with viewers while making the content hyper-local to UCLA culture (and more generally, college culture).

I filmed and edited the video, including keying out the green screen in After Effects, sourcing Super Smash Bros imagery, and animating the text.

Graphic design by Cleo Yeung

Pop Culture Shorts After Effects & Premiere Pro - 2025-2026

These two projects were made over winter break for the UCLA Student Life Instagram, concurrently with the release of the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 movie and the airing of the final season of Stranger Things. Our Stranger Things post in particular saw exceptional engagement, capitalizing on the cultural popularity of the show at the time.

I created the visual effects for both posts, sourcing photos to edit from UCLA archives for the FNAF2 visuals and collaborating with the Media Team in photography for the Stranger Things visuals.

UCLA Stranger Things thumbnail by Elise Chee

Rebekah Todd Tour Reels Premiere Pro - 2024

During my time as a video editor with TAS Visuals, I worked on creating short-form Instagram Reels for North Carolina-based musician Rebekah Todd. Filmed by Tory Silinski, these videos highlighted moments from Rebekah's 2023 Tour.

Logo Reveals After Effects - 2024

These are examples of my motion design work, made for Milk and Cookies Music Week. I created logo reveal animations for MCMW and BPM, following their preexisting marketing guidelines.

Women In Animation Canva - 2022-2023

While attending UNC Charlotte, I was the Graphic Designer for our chapter of Women in Animation—a national organization that uplifts underrepresented gender identities in the animation industry and teaches students about the field. I was responsible for creating social media and print-based graphics to advertise our meetings and other club events. This required timely communication with our members and the rest of the student body, so I utilized preexisting visual elements on Canva for rapid content creation.

Lil Mabu Visualizers Premiere Pro & After Effects - 2024

For his performances in the summer of 2024, I created visualizers for musician Lil Mabu. I worked with a team of editors on his entire setlist and primarily tackled three videos myself. These included "Oppy Day," for which the client requested a karaoke-style approach, "Mathematical Disrespect," and an "Intermission" loop for the time in between songs, all of which followed the musician's brain-themed visual identity. This project saw a very short turnaround, with the visualizers being played at concerts less than a week after being assigned. Stock footage in combination with original clips was used.

High Cal Games KTC Trailer Premiere Pro - 2022

For the release of their first demo game, "Kill the Climbers," I created a trailer for indie North Carolina-based video game development company High Cal Games. KTC is a retro-style arcade game where you play as a yeti attempting to defend the peak of your mountain. I followed a retro-style aesthetic when making the trailer to match the preexisting company image. This trailer showcased the in-progress assets and mechanics for the game, available in early access on Steam as of May 2024.

Oil Pipeline Software Attack Graphics Illustrator - 2022

For this project, I assisted with a UNC Charlotte graduate student's research proposal in Computer Science. The research pertains to an adaptive game-based learning system for cybersecurity information. I was tasked with creating a set of graphics that illustrated this cybersecurity information in an oil pipeline system. The graphics needed to clearly and concisely visually communicate complex information to viewers with little background knowledge in the area. I established a variety of designs and color options for my client to choose from. With each iteration of my design, I adapted to feedback from the research team.