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Hi hi! I'm Chloe and I'm an audience editor specializing in video and design. 
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Axios

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Tools used: Photoshop, Figma, After Effects

150+ posts  

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Axios

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Tools used: Premiere Pro and After Effects

110+ videos

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For a video about an AI video service, it made sense to craft a creepy AI video opener to play a trick on our audience and start the review, in collaboration with Axios AI and tech expert

Ina Fried.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

HeyGen Review
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One of the many videos I created for Axios Race and Justice reporter Russ Contreras, based on his reporting about schools segregating by race due to the rise of charter schools.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

Schools re-segregating in secret
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A text-only video focused on evergreen science reporting. I aimed to emphasize the whale song by using only natural audio.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

Whales' anatomy shapes their song
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Playfully poking at the ambitious clean-up goal of the Paris Olympics. This video is a follow-up to one I made a year earlier, viewed over 100 thousand times.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

The Seine is too dirty for Olympians

NYT

Data tracking and reporting

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 COVID in Colleges

As a New York Times News Assistant, I helped gather data for an interactive documenting infections on college campuses across the United States, contributing to the team's 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Incarcerated and Infected

I collected vital information for an investigative report on COVID-19 in prisons. My responsibilities included contacting remote facilities, interviewing incarcerated individuals, and updating our national spreadsheet.

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Freelance

Tools used: After Effects and Illustrator

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This is part one of a freelance animated series I made for WIRED. Working with their social media leads I helped select the topic, created storyboards, and drew and animated the assets.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

 Sleep Procrastination 1
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This is part 2 of the freelance animated explainers for WIRED. I created storyboards and drew and animated the assets. We wanted to provide a solution to the issues raised in part 1.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

 Sleep Procrastination 2
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This is the final installment of my 5-part master's thesis of animated explainer videos for the University of California, Berkeley.  

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

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