Posse Foundation - The Mirandas

The Posse Foundation is a non-profit that provides opportunities and scholarships for young adults. As part of their 2023 gala, Posse wanted to highlight the co-founders of the Posse Arts program, father and son, Luis and Lin Manuel Miranda. The ask was to produce a video of their journey and the impact Posse provides. Because it was shot on the East Coast, Posse hired a crew to film the interview. Once completed, they handed over footage and b roll to me for editing. This was a challenging (but fun) project as I was given the footage two weeks before the deadline.

Center for Creative Education Teaser

The Center for Creative Education is an arts focused K-8 school based in West Palm Beach Florida. As part of a 3 person crew, we flew out to spend an afternoon interviewing staff and students. This was a teaser video of a much longer promo video highlighting the work of this organization.

Interviewer and script: Heather Bonnett

Camera 1 Operator: Adam Hicks

Camera 2, audio, post production: Mike Stough

Brand Refresh Promo

This was a promotional video who we had an outside agency develop for us to promote the work we were doing on the brand refresh.

Production Agency: Moving Brands

Wealth Management Advisors

At one point, First Republic was aggressively recruiting private wealth managers to join the Bank. My team and I shot and produced this recruitment video in-house.

Script: Brooke Chappell

Camera 1, audio: Mike Stough

Cam 2, editing, graphics: Adam Hicks

Client Services Internal Promo

As this was an internal company video, the Client Services department requested to keep it in-house which my team took on. Using a mix of interviews and motion graphics, we produced a video to help explain what the Client Services team does on any given day. My involvement included concept/storyboarding, direction, videography and post production including audio.

Script: Alee Karim

Storyboard, Direction, Filming, Editing, Audio: Mike Stough

Motion graphics: Tanya Rodman

Spruceflow Software

To help launch our new SAAS platform, Spruceflow, the Sales team wanted a simple video to explain its value prop and the ease of use. I was involved throughout the entire project starting at pre-production with casting, location scouting, storyboarding and scripting. For production I directed all of the shoots, ran one the cameras and set up lighting. For post, I did all the editing, motion graphics and audio.

Script: Alison Mickey

Storyboard, Director, Videographer, Editor, Motion Graphics, Audio: Mike Stough

Spruce About Us Video

This video was produced to promote the new brand. We shot and edited this entirely in-house.

Script: Alison Mickey

Camera, sound, graphics and post production: Mike Stough

I Heart Walk

Concept/Storyboard, Director.

To encourage colleague participation in the 2019 Annual Heart Walk, my team created this video. I came up with this concept of a simple white backdrop in order to emphasize each colleague’s reason for wanting to participate. We set this up in an empty conference room and with the right lighting, you could never tell!

Pet Clinic Promo

Director, Videographer, Editor, Graphics, Audio

Paw Fund is a SF Bay Area based non profit that offers free pet wellness services to low income and homeless pet guardians. I’m a huge fan of their work (we even adopted 2 of our rescues from them) so I volunteered to shoot a short promo video for them. I spent a day filming one of their pet clinic events in Berkeley.

GRID Alternatives Volunteering

Director, Interviewer, Videographer, Editor, Graphics, Audio

Clean Power Finance employees are given the opportunity to volunteer with GRID Alternatives and install a solar system on the homes of low income customers. I shot this while shadowing a volunteer crew for the afternoon. You’d be surprised how dangerous it is to shoot on a roof!