Hello! Welcome to my corner of the world, I'm Kaylei.

 

Digital media has presented itself to me in various manners throughout my life, the earliest being photography. I started photography when I was eleven, being granted the opportunity of being my mother's assistant to her photography business and the rest was history.

 

Graphic design came along with being elected as a yearbook editor. There I learned the ins and outs of the Adobe Suite and received advanced graphic design training through a yearbook program at University of the Pacific. I edited three yearbooks and designed two of them, gaining extensive knowledge by working independently and collaboratively to complete deadlines.  Through word of mouth, I was given jobs designing t-shirts, brochures, pamphlets; small projects that kept me creatively inclined.

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Videography started when I was seventeen. I had created an intimate documentary and submitted it into a local film competition, which ended up winning the Coordinators Award with Yesterday Again Film Festival. With a new lens, I decided to attend Sonoma State University and advanced my knowledge for film and creative marketing. I was able to obtain a few positions where I quickly rose through the ranks of the on-campus studio to end up in the General Manager position of Studio Blue for two years. Outside of assisting students to create over 70+ unique video concepts, in this position I amassed national and global recognition for my efforts in videography such as: National Jury Award for Campus Movie Fest, Best Cinematography and Third Overall with Santa Rosa Film Festival, Honorable Mention at Student World Impact Film Festival and various opportunities that I was able to seek out.

 

One of such opportunities being a marketing campaign video with a partner of National Geographic, The Hydrous project. Through this project, I was able to curate a more specified item of how I wanted to approach Digital Media Marketing and implement them into marketing campaigns in office settings, some of which are highlighted on my Graphic Design tab.

       

Digital media is a passion I hold very close to my heart. Creativity and curiosity are my closest friends and motivators so feel free to reach out if you have a project I might be of service on!