Entertainment Video Content
I’ve been trying to entertain people on the internet in some form or another since about 2008. Here’s a selection of both short-form and long-form(-ish) content from more recent years. Mostly.
Short-Form Content Highlights
The best bits of my own gaming livestreams edited down and punched up for TikTok/YouTube Shorts. See the original (uncensored) shorts below.
I actually started streaming on Twitch again in mid-2024 (after stopping in 2019 due to unforeseen circumstances) just so I’d have content to brush up on my editing…and then had to stop again due to different unforeseen circumstances. Maybe I’ll be able to pick it up again in 2029…
Regardless of setbacks, as a rather…verbose individual, the 60-second time constraint has been invaluable—and made me realize how much I enjoy the challenge of distilling hours of source material into minutes of punchy entertainment.
Watch the Full Shorts
Longer-Form Content: Recent
A video cover letter I created to try and get the attention of a company I really wanted to work for. Unfortunately, it didn’t pan out (the whole thing was a long shot from the jump, honestly)...but just look at all those kind comments on YouTube—that much positive feedback on the internet is quite a feat in itself! So while it may be odd to publish something so tailored to a particular company on my portfolio like this, I'm still really proud of the finished video—and what I shared about my value as an editor definitely applies to more than just that specific company ;).
Longer-Form Content: Older
During (one of) the peak(s) of my YouTubing days—as it was purely a hobby, making videos often took a backseat to Real Life—I did a major branding overhaul and also produced this trailer chronicling the highlights of my time on the platform until that point. Poring over hours of footage of your own face in order to produce, essentially, a trailer for your personality is quite an experience!
Throwing it back to my YouTube vlogging days, I was doing the lip-synced cutaway flashback thing before Ant Man made it cool! I got the Alex in question to record his portions by directing him remotely while he was out of town, and—in true old-school YouTuber fashion—did everything else myself.
My love of singing and comedy (and Disney) led me to write this parody of Gaston's self-aggrandizing number from the Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast from the long-suffering Belle's perspective. I recorded and mixed the vocals with a MIDI(!) backing track (I can't play any instruments...yet) and shot and edited the music video in my little studio apartment as well.
A rare freelance project, this documentary-style video involved taking prerecorded voiceover and premade brand assets; sourcing a ton of relevant footage from places like gaming news sites and Let's Play YouTube channels; sourcing music from the franchise to set the mood of each segment of the video, and editing all of that together within the constraints of DYKG's brand voice and style guide. A whole new experience for me at the time!