Karina Corral: Amateur Videographer

Karina Corral. Senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Media and Cinema Studies Major.

Hi! I am Karina Corral, a recent graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I majored in Media and Cinema Studies with a focus in film production and editing. I enjoy walks outside, hanging out with my dog, and going out shopping. One of my favorite things to do is to have a photoshoot with my dog just to work on my camera skills!  

DIM Events Videography Internship. Summer 2021.

I had the pleasure of participating in a summer internship with DIM Events as a videography intern. Below are some of the work that I have done while in the internship as well as the work I’ve done while being on set. Very exciting to have the opportunities to attend shoots in Chicago!

Behind the scenes of recording a podcast with other interns. I can be seen checking camera 1 and camera 2 to ensure both angles are clear and positioned well for filming.

June 15, 2021. Another video shoot with Derrick C. Westbrook. Pictures of me from behind the scenes of filming both footage for the client and footage of interns for the company. Had fun getting to know the interns during these interviews as well as learning more information of wine from Derrick C. Westbrook!

I had the pleasure of helping film Momodou N’jie’s great advice for his Mo Than Management Instagram and I was in charge of editing as well!

May 25, 2021. The above photos are from the merchandise shoot and wine shoot DIM Events had. I was in charge of getting behind the scenes footage, as seen on the left and middle photos taken by my sister, and I was also helping film wine material with a client of DIM Events, Derrick C. Westbrook. It was my first time using a gimbal, and it was so fun learning how to balance it and use it!

During my internship, there would be a panel held every month with multiple industry professionals to talk to the interns about their work experience and to provide advice on how the interns can achieve their goals. One of my assignments as a a videography intern included choosing and editing clips from the panel that best highlights the information given that would also be best posted on the company Instagram.
As part of the videography team at DIM Events, I am also given the chance to edit podcasts!

Below is more work I have done! Enjoy!

The Last Adventures of Two John Does was a final project done by my class, Cinematography and Sound Design. My roles in this project included location manager, production assistant, boom operator, and editor. I was in charge of editing the middle portion of the short film where cops are going door to door to ask inhabitants questions about a death that occurred outside their building.
‘Feel’ It With Sound was a sound editing exercise given to my class by my professor in my Cinematography and Sound Design class. The edited footage was provided, and the assignment was to add in my own sounds to the video as well as edit the sounds added in the video. I utilized foley sounds, music and copyright free sounds from Freesound.org.
Mediterranean: Trip of a Lifetime by Karina Corral June 21 2021. I edited this video during my editing class summer of 2021. The video footage was provided by my instructor and the goal was to create a 90-second video arranging the clips, editing them, and adding music, sound effects and a voice-over.
Alugalug Sammie by Karina Corral
This video was inspired by The Kiffness who remixed the audio of a cat talking. The video is my dog, Sammie, thinking about her time outside 🙂
‘Parking Ticket’ is a 30-second commercial my Film Production class made for a final project. The goal was to recreate Heineken’s commercial for their product, however, we were only to create the video utilizing the information given in the script. My role in the project was recording the camera log and editing the footage as well as adding music and adjusting the color.
Dreams are Half Full by Karina Corral. April 21, 2021. I created this video while applying for a DIM Events videography internship. The prompt was “Dreams are Half Full” with the guidelines being the video had to be 1-minute long and contain a montage of cultural figures. I chose to focus on women who are impacting today’s society.
I created this video as part of an assignment to analyze a movie’s cinematography and dialogue. I decided to do this PechaKucha video using clips from the film Lady Bird. I felt compelled to emphasize the relationship between Christine and her mother even though the story focuses on Christine’s coming of age journey. I chose to focus on one aspect: Christine and her mom’s relationship. I felt that I owed Lady Bird the time and effort to be able to look through the different mother-daughter interactions and how each interaction was an important one. Just as I paired these clips of opposites with each other, I started and ended the video with clips that were opposite as well because I felt it was important to show that no matter what low point mothers and daughters have, they will bounce back and grow from it in order to reach the best parts. 
Illini Film and Video Club setting up for interviews. April 2021.
Parents embracing LOVE.
Milwaukee Art Museum.
Brother enjoying the Milwaukee Bay.
Took a lovely trip to Wisconsin with my family. Very beautiful area and made the most of such a beautiful, sunny day! March 2021, Wisconsin.
Edwardsville geese enjoying the Southern Illinois University campus. March 2021, Edwardsville, IL.
Two Yoshi’s studying for their human anatomy class. March 2021, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Before Sunrise by Karina Corral, Maggie Morris, Meici Yang, Sarah Haddad, and Sander Ashman. March 2021.
Before Sunrise is a short video project filmed during my spring semester of my senior year (fourth year) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This video was filmed using a fragment of the script for the film Before Sunrise directed by Richard Linklater and written by Richard Link and Kim Krizan. I assisted in finding the location for the production of the video and edited the video.
Where’s Mark? by Karina Corral, Maggie Morris, Mohamed Amn and Sarah Haddad. February 2021.
Where’s Mark? is a short video project filmed during my spring semester of my senior year(fourth year) for a film production class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is a video about a character named Mark making their way to a home to only find themselves to be missing. I helped film and locate places for the video production and edited the video.
West Side Story for Worst Film of the Year by Karina Corral. December 2020.
West Side Story for Worst Film of the Year is a video essay that I edited and produced for a film production class during the fall semester of my senior year (fourth year) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This video is about the stereotypical portrayal of Puerto Rican people in the film West Side Story and how these stereotypes along with the use of brown face can set back and hurt Latino and Hispanic communities.
Podcast by Karina Corral and Triyah Mahapatra. October 2020.
The podcast was done by a classmate and me for a film production class during the fall semester of my senior year (fourth year) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The podcast was about opening up a conversation on food insecurity on college campuses. I assisted in writing the script and the podcast audio was recorded by me.
Getting Better by Karina Corral and Kayla Berry. March 2020.
Getting Better is a short video project filmed during my first semester in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Getting Better is about a young girl who is worried about her friend not going to class and suggests her friend go to the school health center to get counseling and help for whatever the young girl may be going through. I helped direct and film and edited the video.