Tools: Adobe Premiere Pro

Project Goal: Create a video essay covering a topic of my choosing to explore the opportunities of storytelling within video editing.

Process: I decided to write a short essay on how the Christian faith and themes of the Gospel can be seen within the popular series, The Lord of the Rings. This process involved research of the topic, writing a script, gathering footage and quotes, recording voiceovers, and planning out how to creatively combine religious imagery, scripture, and footage from The Lord of the Rings to build a compelling narrative.

Result: For the video essay, I chose to pair footage from the television series The Chosen with parts of the video talking about Christianity, as well as display scripture on screen while playing footage from The Lord of the Rings in order to support my statement that there are connections between the themes in both Christianity and J.R.R. Tokien’s iconic series.