Originally hailing from Leitrim, Killian is a multidisciplinary creator with a focus on video editing. Throughout the New Media Studies course, he has created a variety of projects ranging from a podcast interviewing camgirls and their clients to a mixed-media short film about befriending a magpie to creating a meta-interactive narrative about narratives themselves. Outside of the course, he founded and ran the Satire Society for the past four years, becoming one of the most followed IADT-adjacent Instagram accounts on campus.
This student profile helped me hone my interview/editing skills which led to me getting hired by Positive Carbon to produce similar work during my third-year work placement. I thought the orange background of the library added a nice depth effect to the interview and it made me conscious of how effective an interview location can be.
Created for the 'Stories from Isolation' and placing 4th overall, Losing My Marbles is a mesh of animation and live-action footage that tells the story of an unlikely friendship during the 2020 lockdowns. COVID-19 was actually the reason I returned to college, so to be awarded a prize based on an event that happened during the lockdowns felt validating.
Produced for a podcast project, I wanted to explore the rise of online sex work and the reasons why it has become such a lucrative space. I interviewed a camgirl, one of her clients and a sex therapist to get a better understanding about why someone would become an online sex worker and why millions pay for it on a daily basis.
My final year project. EyeBoy and the Quest for Narrative Theory is an interactive narrative that teaches you about narrative theory if you get a game over, featuring three different endings and exclusive interviews from writer Dan Martin (TellTale Games / Dramatic Labs). At the heart of New Media is interactivity, and I believe that the potential of interactive narratives as a medium will be captialised on in the near future.