Devon Roddel Email & Phone Number

I've always been with the video production craft. I started as a freshman, at Frankfort High in Frankfort IN, working and eventually helping to run a television studio producing a daily morning news program while learning how to edit. I continued my education at BSU starting in 2014. I directed my first film, The Last Dance, in the Fall. During these early years, I was also participating and eventually leading a revolving project out of the Miller College of Business creating video content based on economic history and principles. Out of this project, I've produced 7 films. My most popular film from this project is a documentary about the Dutch Tulip Bulb Mania of the 1600's. I'd been working mostly with documentary film during this time, doing projects of a wide variety such as local drug epidemics, economic history, human interest, and community building. During my Senior year, I produced and directed a package of ethnohistorical interviews that were cut into a documentary film about the Muslim community members of Muncie IN and their stories. The film was absolutely fantastic to work on because it showed that Muslim voices could be heard on their terms. The project centered on oral history interviews, which is currently a center of my work.All through college, I worked as the video guy for the College of Fine Arts for 3 years under Dr. Michael O'Hara. I was able to travel to New York City in the summer of 2016 to gather numerous video assets (I also traveled abroad to London and Amsterdam for a documentary in the Spring of 2017). After graduation, I was hired as an independent contractor in the academic year of Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 in order to make a documentary film for the College of Business at BSU. I went back to school to get my second BA in History, graduating in 2021. I learned much about finding diversity when it has been hidden, and my history work in college led to me focusing my capstone thesis paper on disparities between white and black victims’ relief payments from the Draft Riots during the American Civil War. The experience left me wanting to put more work into subaltern populations.I left Muncie in the midst of the pandemic to find work closer to my home and family, and worked as a temp for a year inside the Covid testing facility at Purdue. I was hired this past month to work as the Local History Librarian at the West Lafayette Public Library.I’m excited to move onto another step and see where it takes me

Listed skills include Video Production, Video Post Production, Team Leadership, Video Editing, and 27 others.