YouTube Thumbnail


This is a YouTube thumbnail for an upcoming wedding. It was created with Canva using the following fonts:

  1. Abril Fatface
  2. Playlist Script
  3. Poppins Medium

The background image was a stock image within Canva.

Media Coordination

I’ve spent the past few months (January and February 2021) covering for the Communications Coordinator at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood, WA. My main foci include filming and editing video for our online services, as well as creating graphics for marketing, emails, and bulletins.

For the videos, I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro. For the graphics, my main tool has been Photoshop, but I have also used Canva.

Below are some examples of the work I created. At the very bottom is a video that was created under trying circumstances.

This video is for the Sunday service on February 14, 2021. In Seattle, we had a snowstorm start the day before that made the roads unsafe. My team and I went into overdrive. Though we’ve been creating video content for our Sunday services, we have had a small crew in the sanctuary. Thus many elements were still captured live. Very quickly we need to record ALL the content for the service and bring in our ASL interpreter. It was very challenging to pull that all together, but we did it. It’s not perfect (for instance, the audio is not well balanced), but we got something together under the most trying circumstances. I’m pretty proud of this one.

Media Creation and Management: January and February 2021

Over the past few weeks I have been working as a Media Coordinator for Trinity Lutheran Church covering for a paternity leave. Fun work! The main piece has been creating and editing videos for our YouTube streams. Besides running cameras, mixers and multimedia, I have also been assembling and editing videos. The video equipment I use: 3 digital cameras, a Roland video mixer, OBS, and YouTube Studio. We feed our audio through a Yamaha sound board before it heads into the livestream.

In this video, I edited several of the component videos with Premier Pro. Additionally, most of the graphics were created by me. I’m especially proud of the Thumbnail.

Also, I’ve created some graphics for YouTube channel art as well as Instagram, Mailchimp, and a few other promotional avenues. These ones were created with Photoshop.

I created these with Canva. It is a fine tool, with great templates which makes creating images like these quick.

Advertising Examples: InDesign

Here are some graphic design experiments where I took an existing local company and created some ads. In this series, I created three different types: online, billboard, and full-page print. These were created with InDesign, though I needed to do a little bit of work in Photoshop as well as Illustrator. The images were grabbed from Pexels.

Here are the billboards:

Mel & Mia’s Billboard #1
Mel & Mia’s Billboard #2
Mel & Mia’s Billboard #3

The next ones are the online ads I created:

Mel & Mia’s Online Ad #1
Mel & Mia’s Online Ad #2
Mel & Mia’s Online Ad #3
Mel & Mia’s Print Ad #1
Mel & Mia’s Print Ad #2
Mel & Mia’s Print Ad #3