I wrote and produced a segment on the economic cost of gun violence, edited and designed the special’s opening, and animated supporting explainers. These pieces had three- to five-day turnarounds.
MY ROLEWriting · Producing · Editing · Design & animation
PRODUCTION3–5 days per piece
Cost of Gun Violence · 2:27 · Writing, producing, editing and design. Watch on Livid ↗
Why I chose the economic angle.
A lot of the coverage focused on the loss of life and emotional pain, rightly so. I wanted to show the economic cost too, especially for people who might think it doesn’t directly affect them.
That was the idea behind Cost of Gun Violence. I wrote, produced, edited and designed the piece.
These are demo versions. Providing sources for the statistics was part of my responsibility; the citations were added as overlays later in the pipeline for air.
Editing the opening.
A producer pulled the sound bites for the opening. I worked with those selections and handled the full edit and design.
Special opening · 1:10 · Editing and design. Sound bites selected by a collaborating producer. Watch on Livid ↗
Animating the explainers.
For the supporting pieces, I received the VOs and came up with the animations. These included national numbers and segments on gun violence and mental health.
National numbers · 0:20 · Animation from supplied voiceover. Watch on Livid ↗Dr. Barnhorst segment · 0:29 · Animation from supplied voiceover. Watch on Livid ↗Mental-health explainer 01 · 0:20 · Animation from supplied voiceover. Watch on Livid ↗Mental-health explainer 02 · 0:30 · Animation from supplied voiceover. Watch on Livid ↗
Working on deadline.
The turnaround was three to five days per piece, including the editing, design and animation.
My role depended on the piece. Sometimes I wrote and produced; other times I worked from a producer’s selections or a supplied VO.
Cost of Gun Violence — writing, producing, editing and design: Aaron Munoz. Special opening — editing and design: Aaron Munoz; sound-bite selection: collaborating producer. Supporting explainers — animation concepts and execution: Aaron Munoz, from supplied voiceovers. Created for CBS News.