BEHIND THE CAMERA

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER · CINEMATOGRAPHER · STORYTELLER

I'm Hank Ball, a multimedia producer and cinematographer based in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'm a camera nerd in the best way: I love talking through a workflow, building a lighting setup, and grading footage until it looks exactly right. What I care about most is owning a piece from the first idea to the final frame, shooting it, cutting it, coloring it, and scoring it myself.

Most recently, I produced brand and campaign content at CompanyCam, where I shot, lit, and edited some of the company's biggest videos, including a collab that passed 420k views, and was the sole creative on its Sherwin-Williams partnership. Alongside that, I run Main Floor Media, my own production company, where I take client projects from pre-production to post. The clearest example is the You & Aya podcast: I built the brand, shot and lit it, edited, mixed, and scored every episode, and grew it to 65k+ views in its first three.

I'm confident in what I do and just as eager to keep learning from the people around me. I think there's always something to take from every shoot, no matter how well it went.

SKILLS
  • Production — Cinematography · Directing · Lighting

  • Post — Editing · Color grading · Sound design · Mixing · Original scoring

  • Design — Brand & logo design · Social & graphic assets · Content strategy

  • Camera Systems — BlackMagic · Nikon Z-series · Sony · Canon

  • Software — DaVinci Resolve (specialty) · Illustrator (specialty) · Premiere Pro (specialty) · Ableton Live (specialty) · After Effects · Photoshop · Lightroom · Blender · Maya · Canva

RECOGNITION
  • Exhibited at MoMAMicromeals, one of 50 international projects selected for the 2024 BDC.

  • UCARE Research Fellow — University of Nebraska–Lincoln (documentary work)

  • Work that traveled — 420k+ views (CompanyCam collab) · 303k+ views (Pine Ridge series) 65k+ views (You & Aya, first three episodes)