Yerevan, Armenia

Art Direction

Direction

Location Scouting

Video Editing

In March 2014 we were asked to create a music video for a cover by Argentinian-born artists Alin and Talin of the song entitled “Snow” by Armenian folk singer Ruben Hakhverdyan.

In Yerevan, where the video was shot, winter came late and dropped heavy and wet snow before springs’ warmth set in. We were lucky, though the apricots blossoms were not.

We shot the music video using a Canon 6D DSLR camera and used a hand-held camera technique to reflect the motions of the song's subject.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

Video Graphics

Direction

Videography

Editing and Output

I produced the first music video for Ethiopia’s only performing Armenian pop singer, Vahe Tilbian. Since its release, the clip has aired several times internationally on South Africa’s Channel O music video channel. The video was shot using Canon DSLRs, the 60D and the 6D and was edited with Final Cut Pro X.

Yerevan, Armenia

Direction

Shot List & Scheduling

Videography 

Video Editing

Lighting 

I worked together with the Executive Director of Nexus Center for the Arts and a team of two videographers to create a shot list, schedule a direction for the story of the video between the different groups of students (over 40 students!).  

1st graders from Ayb School in Yerevan, Armenia visit Nexus Center of the Arts and perform songs they learned at school. The video was met with great excitement and many happy parents. 

Yerevan, Armenia

Creative Direction

Video Editing

Mobile Advertisement Design

PicsArt had just created an exciting new addition to their family of apps, GifsArt. To celebrate the launch, I created a video that had the energy and fun of all the magic GifsArt can offer and do. 

Yerevan, Armenia

Event Coordination

Social Media Advertising

Viral Video Production

Concept Development

Pecha Kucha is a series of forums that invites local architects, designers and photographers to show 20 photos for 20 seconds each and have a chance to showcase an experience.

The theme for the December 2014 event in Yerevan was “Steal This Idea,” based on the Abbie Hoffman guidebook on urban survival, “Steal This Book.” The concept behind “Steal This Idea” was to share ideas worth creating so that they can be brought to life in any way possible.

Photographs by Karén MirzOyan

Vienna, Austria

Content Development

Scripwriting

Storyboarding

OSCE Representative for Freedom of Media contacted Jarakite Creative Partners which led me to write and develop a script as well as draw storyboards for a brief animation that can describe the importance of Open Journalism and OSCE's involvement to further spread awareness of its benefits.  Animations by Peno Mishoyan.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Hairbrain Films was a new production company that was in need of an animated logo for their films intros. One of the founders had a bicycle accident that involved having a full-on skull fracture and had to have a CAT-scan of his skull.

The images produced from the MRI were animated and combined to create their animated logo.

Cliffside Park, NJ, USA

Videography

Editing

This is a soliloquy for my iconic grandmother whose life ambitions were simply to follow, teach, and enliven the word of our common eternal Lord. The song on the track is from a vintage 1930 cultural exposé of different folk music in Fresno California and can be found on the Library of Congress website under WPA CA Folk Music Project, searching the Subject Title Armenian. The title of the song is "Crane" or "Groong" in Armenian. It is a emblematic Armenian folk song, typically sung in Western dialect Armenian.

BloodVine Media, an LA-based media production company, asked us to create a logo for them that they can use to represent their company on paper and on screen.  

We took to the concept of growth and regrowth from the name of the company, creating a logo that evolves into its shape. The result steers away from the negative connotations of blood and transforms the concept of mortality inherent in its name into something that is reborn and gives life.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

Video Graphics

Direction

Editing and Output

Concept Development

Storyboarding

This was the first music video for up-and-coming Ethiopian pop star Bitik.  From concept to development to post-production, we created and delivered a music video. This involved concept development, storyboarding, production management, extra sourcing, editing graphics and output. The video was shot using a BlackMagic 2.5K digital camera.

Yerevan, Armenia

Videography

Editing

Assignment Submission

In 2013, protests erupted in Armenia's capital city of Yerevan as Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the country in an effort to expand his country's planned Customs Union.  Protesters were carrying signs reading 'Stop Russia' and 'Leave the Oligarchs in Moscow'. 

Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan confirmed Armenia's participation in the Eurasian Customs Union, which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and now Armenia. The move effectively negates preparations for entry into the Eastern Partnership program of the European Union, reversing Armenia's future economic cooperation'd direction toward the East. Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych also reversed a path towards a pact with the EU in favor of the Russian Customs Union, sparking similar violent protest in the nations capital city Kiev. 

Russia has been pursuing a way to reconnect with former Commonwealth of Independent States in order to bolster greater economic trade and the Eurasian Economic Partnership is one of the latest attempts to re-envigorate cooperation with former Soviet Union nations.

The video shot was recorded using an iPhone at the protests and shows Armenian policeman restraining protesters.

We created a video for 100Lives a new foundation that focuses on rewarding those who recognize their humanity in people. The foundation had a very last minute request for a video to be released prior to their official launch.

Yerevan, Armenia

Video Graphics

Editing and Output

One Armenia, a crowd-funding platform for benevolent and infrastructural projects in Armenia, needed an animation to highlight their new logo in an outro for their 1-minute campaign videos. We created a spotlight effect on a dynamic animation that presented One Armenia’s logo to their audience.

Beckett, MA, USA

Video Graphics

Direction

Editing and Output

Concept Development

The Kushi Institute is a macrobiotic cooking and healing retreat center located in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains.  They needed a promotional video that could succinctly and effectively communicate what their center offers.  Jarakite Creative Partners wrote, produced and edited a promotional video that did just that.