Greggreco
InternshipMay to August 2024

TechnologyAdvice

A summer as a video content editor intern, cutting sponsored videos for channels with more than 80,000 subscribers and followers. Tech brands paid for placement, so every edit had a client brief behind it.

Summer 2024 · 12 finished videosSequence at 30 fps · 00:11:55:29
V1
GPT-4o explainer00:05:05:06 Getting the internship00:05:57:19 Sponsored00:00:52:18
V2
00:00:57:2100:00:56:2800:00:57:2800:00:52:0600:00:58:1600:00:50:0700:00:57:2200:00:45:2300:00:55:10
Long-form GPT-4o explainer, Getting the internship, a sponsored business videoV1 · 3 videos
ZoomInfo series Sponsored shortV2 · 1 video
Business insurance Sponsored shortsV2 · 2 videos
Payroll Sponsored shortsV2 · 3 videos
Careers Hiring, remote interviews and job huntingV2 · 3 videos
Poster frame for the GPT-4o video: the host framed inside an animated circuit-board graphicGPT-4o explainer · 00:05:05:06
Poster frame for Getting the internship: an interviewee with an animated emoji pop-upGetting the internship · 00:05:57:19
Poster frame for the ZoomInfo short: 70+ million in large glowing typeZoomInfo · 00:00:57:21
Poster frame for a payroll short: an animated figure at a desk under a bright sunPayroll · 00:00:58:16
Poster frame for a business insurance short: an illustrated scale of justice on blueInsurance · 00:00:56:28
Two long-form edits, then three Shorts.
Role
Video Content Editor Intern
Format
Long-form edits and short-form cut-downs, mostly YouTube Shorts
Workflow
Assets in Illustrator or Photoshop, animated in After Effects, assembled in Premiere Pro
Tools
Premiere ProAfter EffectsPhotoshopIllustrator
The job

Brief in, edit out

Before the internship started, I made a sample video for TechnologyAdvice. Once I was in, the work was sponsored content. TechnologyAdvice sold sponsored placements on its YouTube and social channels. I’d get a brief and the raw footage, then either assemble the long-form video or cut it down for short-form, mostly YouTube Shorts. Sponsors appeared as mid-roll recommendations, like an AI writing tool inside a video about GPT-4o.

When a video needed graphics, I designed the assets in Illustrator or Photoshop, animated them in After Effects and brought everything together in Premiere.

The big one

First pass, no revisions

The biggest sponsor that summer, ZoomInfo, bought a video series with a brief that asked for “no frills but visually interesting.” My first pass was accepted with no revisions.