Video Production & Brand Films
Good video can make a brand, space, or story feel immediate and alive. Summer Sown Studio creates thoughtful, cinematic video content for small businesses, creatives, brands, and organizations throughout the Bay Area. From short-form social content and behind-the-scenes footage to brand stories and project documentation, each piece is shaped around the people and ideas at its center.
CIIS Interdisciplinary Arts & Writing MFA Alum Spotlight
I worked on the editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from interview footage, audio mixing, and color grading.
CIIS Celebrating the Class of 2025 Highlight
I worked on the editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included watching through footage, selecting clips, picking music and audio mixing, and color grading.
CIIS Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program Video
I worked on the editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from interview footage, audio mixing, and color grading.
CIIS Watershed Witness Tour
I worked on the filming and editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included participating in the full-day shoot, watching through footage, selecting clips, audio mixing, and color grading. Footage was shot on my Canon EOS R5.
CIIS Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Spotlight Reel
I worked on the editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from interview footage, audio mixing, and color grading.
CIIS Matthew D. Segall Spotlight Reel
I worked on the editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from interview footage, audio mixing, and color grading.
CIIS Integrative Health Studies Spotlight Reel
I worked on the editing for this project with the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. That included watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from interview footage, audio mixing, and color grading.
Sister Julie's Extra Virgin Olive Oil
This was a promo video that I completed on my own (with guidance and input from the client), including brainstorming, storyboarding, scripting, shooting, editing, and sound mixing. I spent time onsite to get all of the shots necessary to go along with the script, then pulled everything together. I was grateful to have spent time working with this wonderful farm in Sonoma County.
UC Berkeley xučyun ruwway Apartments Tour
I worked on the filming and editing for this project for UC Berkeley Housing in Berkeley, California. That included coordinating with the Housing department, filming on-site with my Canon EOS R5, watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from an interview conducted on-site, audio mixing, and color grading. This was a quick turnaround project.
UC Berkeley ASUC Student Union Tour
I worked on the filming and editing for this project for UC Berkeley Housing in Berkeley, California. That included coordinating with the Housing department, filming on-site with my Canon EOS R5, watching through footage, selecting clips, creating a script from an interview conducted on-site, audio mixing, and color grading.
The Lightness of Clay
Documentary short about a natural building project at a Waldorf Training Center in El Sobrante, California, spearheaded by Brendan MacCorgary. Filmed as part of the Video Storytelling Certificate with UC Berkeley School of Journalism's Advanced Media Institute.
Filmed and edited by Emma Ancel.
Welcome to Nina Designs
Video for Nina Designs - concept, storyboard, filming, editing completed in Berkeley, California. An example of a partnership with a small business for content creation!
Change the World with Presidio Graduate School
Storyboard, all editing, thumbnail, YouTube copy for Presidio Graduate School promo video in San Francisco, California.