Al Bako Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Flocabulary is a ed-tech platform by Nearpod that fosters a love of learning through educational hip-hop music videos.My responsibilities include:Conceptualizing videos, creating storyboards and animatics based on scripts and research documentsReviewing and editing scripts, ensuring they will translate well into visualsSourcing, onboarding, and directing freelance illustrators, animators and/or video editorsReviewing both aesthetic and educational quality of visual content, and communicating edits to freelancersWorking closely with Curriculum Leads to ensure videos hit their learning and efficacy goalsCasting and directing on-camera and voiceover talentAnimating, illustrating, and editing video, and collaborating with sound designersCurating and organizing third-party media assets, keeping track of legality surrounding intellectual propertyImproving departmental workflows, striving for efficiency, specifically as it pertains to production management and freelance onboarding processesCreating templates for teamwide use to maximize efficiencyBeing a brand ambassador, representing our team internally and externally

Past and present clients include Flocabulary, Gimlet Media, COZI TV, Spotify Podcasts, and Berklee College of Music. Recent projects: Animating and directing two music videos for singer-songwriter Sidney GishEditing commercials for COZI TVIllustrating and animating a children's educational music video about racial issues for FlocabularyProducing 2-5 original animations weekly for Gimlet social channels

Design spreads and front covers for student-run music publicationWrite features that highlight underrepresented groups in music industry

New York City, Ny, Us

Edited video for web and on-air promos with Final Cut Pro XProduced original motion graphicsResearched network programming and monitored viewer feedbackCoordinated marketing stunts and planned social media postsAssisted in all areas of production

London, Gb

Serve customers in a fast-paced environment with friendly, one-on-one service.Awarded Artist of the Month - November 2017

Design and illustrate flyers for local underground art and music eventsOrganize layouts for their print newspaper, The Boston Compass

Produce seven-minute-long capstone film with small team of studentsAnimate characters in Photoshop, hand-drawn frame by frame

Collaborate with Northeastern professor on storyboards and ideas Animate hand-drawn graphics in PhotoshopComposite in After Effects

Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Us

Provide world-class service with a touch of magicPrepare and serve food with safety and efficiency as top priorities

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Animated and illustrated educational hip-hop videosDesigned promotional materials for social media and conferencesCollaborated with the UN for a video on their Sustainable Development GoalsProduced a video for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on time poverty; animation assistance and compositing in After Effects

Boston, Ma, Us

Mentored first year studentsServed as campus ambassador for Civic Engagement ProgramFacilitated weekly meetings

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Media Arts, Animation, Art History

Ib Diploma