Behind the camera

Video.

Broadcast series, short documentaries, social promos and animation. Unless noted, I led every stage: concept, scripting, shooting, editing, sound, color and delivery.

Television4
Documentary9
Short form16
Animation3

Broadcast

Television

Two half-hour series for WVU Extension, produced with West Virginia Public Broadcasting: 80 episodes in all, delivered broadcast-ready on a weekly schedule.

25 episodesWVU Extension Today
Research-based programming for West Virginians with limited or no internet access. Read the case study.

PlaylistWVU Energy Express: Season 5
A literacy series supporting WVU Extension’s summer reading program. Read the case study.

Short and mid-length

Documentary

Real people and mission-driven stories, told through interviews and b-roll.

Apples to Apples: the West Virginia hard cider industry

A two-part series on Hawk Knob and Swilled Dog, two growing West Virginia cideries, and the role WVU Extension and agritourism play in rural entrepreneurship.

WVU Farm to Fashion

A three-part series on how wool, a byproduct farmers often overlook, can drive value-added production, education and regional growth.

Part 1The Fibershed Grant
A WVU research assistant leads an open-source micro mill model so farmers can process their own fiber.

Part 2Farm to Fashion: A Grow This Story
A graduate student’s path from a packet of seeds to natural dyes and adaptive apparel.

Part 3Reimagining Textiles
WVU and Cleveland studio Found Surface pilot a regional, closed-loop textile model.

WVU Extension Spotlight

Short documentaries on the people and programs behind WVU Extension’s work in health, education and economic opportunity. See the full series (opens in a new tab).

**Veterans Agriculture Training Program**
Veterans train in a high tunnel classroom to grow, harvest, process and sell food.

**The Wayne Cattle Company**
A couple turns a freezer-beef side business into a farm-to-fork market serving 12 local vendors.

**The 4-H Camp Scholarship**
A statewide endowment honoring lifelong 4-H’er Donna Gail Michel.

**The Stacy S. Fint 4-H Cultural Heritage Fund**
A family fund that brings Appalachian music, art and heritage to 4-H camps.

Social, digital and broadcast

Short form

Promos and profiles cut for every placement, from broadcast to Reels, with multiple aspect ratios delivered per piece.

Matthew Foundation: Speech Accessibility Project

Recruitment videos encouraging people with speech disabilities, particularly adults with Down syndrome and their families, to take part. I wrote the scripts, generated the voiceover with ElevenLabs, built the visuals from stock and edited in Premiere Pro.

Horizontal cutSpeech Accessibility Project

Vertical cutSpeech Accessibility Project

Four Horsemen Comics & Gaming

Event promos built from original footage, custom photography, sound design and animation. Read the case study.

**We Gather at the Horsemen**
Lost Caverns of Ixalan release promo.

**Four Horsemen event promo**
Logo reveal built for event promotion.

**Star Wars: Unlimited qualifier promo**
Animated franchise-style opening.

WVU Extension

PromoLet’s Go Weekend
A college-prep event helping high school students with the FAFSA and Promise Scholarship.

PromoWVU Energy Express returns
Season launch promo for owned channels.

West Virginia 4-H

**All About Skill-a-thon**
Filmed at the West Virginia State Fair with a 4-H livestock competitor.

**4-H Youth in Action: Emily**
The 2023 Youth in Action Agriculture Award recipient and her community gardens.

**My 4-H Story: Sarah**
A fourth-generation 4-H’er, filmed at WVU Jackson’s Mill.

Preston County Farm Crawl

A five-part agritourism series for the West Virginia county with the most farms per capita: one flagship promo and four farm features, each under two minutes.

**Heasley Homestead**
A 20-tree hobby grown to more than 2,200 maple taps. Includes select footage from the farm.

**Ringer Farms**
A family-owned micro-dairy and beef operation.

**Riffle Farms**
A bison operation founded in 2017, and the Farm Crawl’s co-founder.

**Pike Mountain Farm**
A pasture-based farm raising chickens, pigs, lambs and turkeys.

Motion

Animation

From hand-masked motion to a multi-tool AI workflow.

AI workflowPicklesburgh promo
I wrote the narrative and creative direction, then used ChatGPT for scripting and storyboards, Google Flow for visuals and animation frames, ElevenLabs for voiceover and Premiere Pro for the final cut.

TV adResilience and Recovery Task Force book club TV ad
A statewide book club promo for WVU Extension. Licensed hand-drawn assets, manually masked and animated, with audio cleaned and mixed from multiple speakers.

Template-basedWVU Extension holiday greeting
A non-denominational winter greeting adapted from a Motion Array After Effects template to fit WVU Extension’s brand.

Have a story that needs telling?

Email me LinkedIn

b.j.bornes@gmail.com