Cole Whitney Media

My name is Cole, thanks for visiting my site.

I studied Communications and Media Studies at the University of Southern Maine and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. I worked for a small local Maine videography company and photo studio for 4 years. This exposed me to a wide range of videography styles, including corporate and event videography, dance recital and competition recordings, film and video restoration, and wedding videography. I think of my boss from this company as a mentor of sorts. He taught me a lot in a short amount of time. He provided hands-on teaching moments, creative problem solving, customer service, with a strong emphasis on “learn by doing” and “lead by example”. The things he taught me have led directly to me starting this LLC. Shout out to Francis Gagnon from ViaVision Productions.

For the past 6+years, I’ve been working for a food manufacturing company creating food content for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. This has allowed me to use social media as a powerful tool to educate, entertain, and inspire people in the culinary world. This job has taught me to maintain an organized workflow to stick to a strict video production schedule. I have honed my time management skills by completing projects, meeting deadlines, making last minute adjustments, and accommodating guests. As the sole in house videographer, I wear all of the hats, including pre-production planning, lights, audio and camera setup, camera operation, editing, color correction, copy and script writing, and final platform delivery and upload.

I’ve also worked closely with Nicole Rand at Maine Photo Finish and CreativeOnes Photography in the Auburn Mall. The team at over there have always supported me and I’m happy to work with them when ever they need an extra hand. At Photo Finish I work as a film preservation and archival specialist, transferring all kinds of old film formats, from 8mm and super8 to 16mm and 35mm slides. In college I learned about shooting on film and the history of motion picture, but the cameras we used in class were all digital. I never imagined I’d get to work with physical film, and it’s been amazing to not only preserve people’s cherished memories, but see snapshots of history in film. Seeing what the New York City Skyline looked like in the 1970’s, seeing Havana Cuba in the 50’s, soldiers roughhousing and relaxing in the jungles of Vietnam, and countless family gatherings, BBQs, holidays, and celebrations. This direct interaction with film has lead to my personal hobby to shoot film photography on a vintage Minolta camera a customer donated after having his films transferred.