Jackson Skiles

My name is Jackson. I'm jubilant with a stupid grin & messy hair. I make neat videos and take amateur pictures. I really like snowboarding, traveling, videography & photography, education, pizza, and live music. I make my videos under the name of Aux Cord Productions, a team that consists of myself and two other friends and as a team we were awarded the video of the year (2015) for our short documentary of a boy from our school's testimony and life story. Following the conclusion of my high school career, I attended the University of Northern Iowa to learn the ways of filming, videography, lighting, and production. This changed second semester of my freshman year when I transferred to the University of Iowa to study the same things, but with more opportunities. Since I discovered my love and passion for video making during the summer going into senior year of high school, I have not been able to get enough. I enrolled in the broadcast journalism program at my school where I had the ability to work with high quality cameras and high tech computers. Nearly everything I know about making and editing videos has been self taught. As a double major in Journalism/Mass Communication and Cinema, I will work with others students to explore the latest and greatest ways electronic media has become such a great part of our lives. To become the best that I can be, I want to connect with my professors, I want to collaborate with my peers, and I want to get involved in my community, through the church, possibly my high school, and through local businesses. I've learned as the oldest brother of 5 that not everything will be handed to me. Im the first to experience all of this big-college stuff in my family. I aspire to be the first graduate of a four-year college in my family. I must go out and establish myself if I wish to succeed. The opportunities are all right in front of me and I am more than excited to take advantage of them.