Who is David Gregory?
David Gregory is a passionate event professional with an interest in film making and visual arts. I like to think that I can plan anything. I have experience in developing programming for recreational sport, parties, concerts; I have planned renovations, I have planned club meetings, I have planned educational programming, and I have planned and shot numerous videos of various budgets.
In high school I was leading teams of 15-20 people. Since then I have collaborated with teams ranging from 30-50 individuals. I care about people and I am passionate about company cultures. I am dedicated to ushering in the next generation and improving upon previously established systems. I have mentored students and I have advocated for ways to innovate and push the status quo at my various organizations. David Gregory is an innovator and an early adopter. David Gregory is different.
Summer Internship Events & Production
GROUPS Scholars 23' Orientation
GROUPS Scholars Orientation week consists of many events planned by the program for the students as well as some kick off events for the scholars. For me my role was leading the execution of an annual video project with the largest vision that it has ever had.
Jammin' & Slammin' Weekend
Jammin' & Slammin' Weekend was a two part event. The first part was Jammin' which involved an open mic and painting event, karaoke, and a song association game. The first part of the weekend revolved around music and expression. Slammin' was a day of competitive sports and active play concluding the weekend of events.
Haunted House Teaser Trailer #1
The annual haunted house. The first video was inspired by popular Youtube prank videos and shot in broad daylight so that anyone that walked by might have thought it was real. This shoot was thought out a lot by myself and was run and gun with Naomi Young being my only other actor.
Haunted House Teaser Trailer #2
The story continues as hype begins to build. Every trailer is subtle foreshadowing for how the most jam packed weekend of events is going to conspire. This video was an attempt to recreate the magic of the first video as asked by Cedric Harris. We planned on scaring the students on campus with these masks on and so wanted to make sure every mask was in a video.
Haunted House Official Trailer
With the weekend of events only one week away how does the event planning team prepare the students for the terror that awaits? One final video to introduce all the spooky characters that would be going around on campus to scare the students.
Fear Factor Official Trailer
An event based on the popular TV show. How does the planning committee build hype and trick the contestants into thinking they will be in some real danger?
This video was constructed using footage from 3 TV spot trailers for the TV show. I took the most believable stunts as well as 2 major ones that students would start to believe they could do. Right after this video we did a live demonstration of the run of show to prepare everyone for the event in 2 weeks.
Haunted House Production & Assembly
Since 2015 the GROUPS Scholars Program has developed a Haunted House that they produce and put on every summer. This is one of the most well attended events.
Talent Weekend Lip Sync Battle Teaser
The talent weekend trailer was inspired by a Tom Holland Lip Sync skit. The team responsible for the talent weekend planned the video and the shots. India Young directed the video, I was in charge of cinematography and the video was edited by Zack Diaz.
DJ Divine Hosts I Want to be a DJ
GROUPS Resident Assistants are expected to produce a number of educational programming and clubs. My club was an exclusive club called I want to be a DJ that brought in guest DJ's and provided an opportunity for students to learn the trade and perform for their peers every weekend.
GroupsEasy Teaser Trailer
GroupsEasy was a weekend of events inspired by the roaring 20's with a formal event modeled after a speakeasy.
The video was entirely produced by Zack Diaz.
This was Zack's first solo editing job and so I played a part in consulting on edits. I also assigned Zack this task.
GroupsEasy Fashion Show Trailer
GroupsEasy Fashion Show Trailer. The event hosts wanted it to be much like the Fear Factor Trailer but because of the nature of the event it didn't work out too well. There was no consultation for this trailer and so the information presented in the video was not up to our standard.
Learned: The consultation is the most important part of the pre-production process.
The Murder of Avery
A video released 12 hours before the event to advertise the SpeakEasy and Murder Mystery. Once students solved the murder mystery they would receive the password to entire the formal.
