Adobe After Effects
Layered video, moving text and graphic elements; Phase 3 source compositions and a cue-layer helper script.
All work
Site-responsive audiovisual work
Trees Sway
A projection installation composed for a concrete wall: film, voice and sound, tuned to the room.
Project status
Installed projection · Sheridan College, Sound & Light, Winter 2026 · AI-assisted moving image
Project boundary. This is an academic project — not a claim of commissioned, built, tested, or approved work beyond what this page documents. The projection was installed and documented; the public film excerpt is silent.
My contribution
Moving-image development, voice and sound, projection setup and QLab cues.
01 / Design decisions
Compose for eyes and ears together.
Moving landscapes, voice and environmental sound form one sequence. The silent excerpt below introduces its visual language; installation photographs show how the complete audiovisual work occupied the room.
02 / Design decisions
The room changed the image.
Concrete texture and ambient light affected contrast. Black in the film became an absence of projection. The installation exposed a clear next step: resolve the lighting map as carefully as the cue sequence.
Watch the opening.
Moving-image study · 20 seconds
Silent visual excerpt, not the complete installation soundtrack. Layered tree imagery carries the words “TREES SWAY / TREES STAY”, introducing the film’s ecological cycle. The contrast between the dark lettering and moving foliage is also the legibility problem I encountered in projection.
The original work combines self-recorded narration, ambience and effects. Sound is omitted from this public excerpt. Full music and SFX credits are documented in the project archive. Sound design: self-recorded narration + wind ambience, QLab-cued. Runway-assisted starting frames and shot direction were developed into the edited sequence in After Effects.
What came out of it
The outcome.
A completed film, sound track, programd cues and a documented installed projection.
What I would develop next
Test in a darker room, map the light positions earlier and strengthen title contrast on the actual projection surface.
Explore all 5 curated project assets
Additional views and the assets discussed above. Open images for their full composition; videos use native playback controls.
Tools with a purpose.
Adobe Audition
Multitrack stereo sound session with voice, wind and sourced effects; gain and level balancing described in final reflection.
QLab
Coordinated video, audio and lighting cues for installation.
Adobe Illustrator
Lighting and projection plans; Project II presentation layout.
SketchUp
Earlier site and scale models.
Documentation
Cue sheets and documentation generated with Excel/Word automation.
Where AI enters the process.
Runway ML
AI starting images and cinematic sequence development, with prompts chained into structured JSON shot descriptions; source tables document seed, young tree and urban-tree starting frames.
document verified; model/version self-reported as GEN 4.5, not independently checked