Aligned Media

05/16/2024

Group shot from our photo/video shoot yesterday!

02/21/2024

We are thrilled to announce the kickoff of our 2024 internship program with two exceptional high school students joining our team. Meet Anela Abdijanovic, a senior at Mehlville High School, and Sawyer Bess, a senior at Oakville High School. They are very accomplished students!

Anela's impressive list of achievements includes:
• 2023 S.M Wilson SKILLED Challenge Winner
• 2023 Outstanding Student Leader Award Winner
• Missouri Glory Award Recipient in Education
• Three-time Missouri Academic All-State Award Recipient
• 2023 Track All-District Honor Award Recipient
• Two-time State Qualifier for DECA
• Enrolled in the St. Louis CAPS Program

Sawyer's accomplishments are equally impressive:
• Three-year Broadcast Staff Member
• Executive Producer for the last two years
• Member of the 2023 Missouri All-State Journalism Team
• Winner of numerous state and national awards for broadcast stories
• Planning to pursue journalism at Mizzou

During the internship program, Anela and Sawyer will be instrumental in producing pro bono content for Circus Harmony and the Arnold Food Pantry. Both organizations are doing incredible work benefiting many throughout the metro area. We can't wait to see the impact these talented individuals will make!

11/13/2023

Domestic Abuse: Kids are Victims Too is a feature length documentary we just completed that includes several first-hand accounts of domestic violence like the one seen in the trailer. It also includes commentary from experts about how to identify signs of domestic abuse early in a relationship, and strategies to leave an abusive partner.

Everyone involved in this production did unbelievable work, including our interview subjects, the Aligned staff and the actors cast to portray the instances of abuse.

Thanks to Cope 24 for the partnership on this important project. We’re confident the feature length documentary will help reduce instances of domestic abuse in the future.

Trailer Reenactment Cast:
Holly: Caroline Campbell
Holly’s mom: Bridgette Bassa
Holly’s stepdad: Joe Anselm
Talent Agencies: Now Talent, Talent Plus

Crew:
Producer/Director/Editor: Scott Huegerich
Producer: Rachel Leisure
DPs: Jacob King, Scot Smith
Gaffer: John Sennot
Hair/MU: Julie Dietrich
Color: Bryan Arnold
Title Design: Michael Bischoff
Sound Design: Dane Dickmann

07/06/2023

Photo of the Week: Black volcanic boulders litter colorful but seemingly lifeless badlands formed in the Brushy Basin Member of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. Moisture-sensitive swelling clays, formed by the alteration of volcanic ash, allow little vegetation to take root.

Bentonite Hills, east of Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen

07/04/2023

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05/22/2023

We love being located in one of the top arts districts in St Louis! Check out this new mural by Lady Pink NYC going in down the street!

05/18/2023

Earlier this week we were honored to host nearly 100 high school juniors and seniors from the city of St. Louis for the Art of Arts career fair! The event was designed to expose students to the various careers available in the arts including theater, dance, music, art, broadcasting & management.

05/10/2023

One of our assignments today was to literally shoot kids in a candy store!

01/10/2023

Congrats to Jacob for bringing home the Aligned Cup at our annual holiday party last weekend! Puttshack was the perfect venue for us!

12/06/2022

Some behind the scenes pics of an awesome shoot last week! Highlights included heaving an old PC out a second-floor window, turning our basement into a thrash metal bar, and bringing an Australian outdoors tv show character to life. Great crew, great clients, and great scripts!

09/08/2022

The team at Aligned picked up a total of 5 Mid-America EMMY nominations this year! We’re nominated in the categories of Directing, Photography, Editing, Motion Graphics/Visual Effects and Short Form Programing! Congrats to our team members sharing in this honor!

06/23/2022

Fiona joined her mom at work today and shared her tattoo collection with us!

04/01/2022

Earlier this week we had a great time helping Ready Readers prep shipments of books headed to early childhood learning centers across the St. Louis metro area. Thanks for helping to head this up Ballyhoo Workshop!

02/03/2022

More aerials captured with our new DJI Mavic 3 Cinema Combo. The St. Louis Wheel looks awesome from this elevation!

01/17/2022

Testing out our new DJI Mavic 3 Cinema Combo over the icy waters of the Mississippi. We love how this thing flies and the images it captures!

12/27/2021

Earlier this year we had the good fortune of meeting this awesome young man through a scholarship program that he submitted an essay for. Gerald won one of the scholarships, and his essay was so compelling we decided to turn it into a video and a GoFundMe campaign. We started this process in May and are launching the campaign today.

If you happen to still be in the holiday spirit, please consider donating a couple of dollars to this cause and/or sharing the link to the GoFundMe page. We can personally vouch for Gerald’s character, integrity, and desire to do good in the world. Any donation you may consider making is an investment in the future of our region and will help maximize the positive impact Gerald will have on it.
https://gofund.me/13c9a1a9

To say the future is bright for Gerald Burton, Jr. is an understatement.… Scott Huegerich needs your support for Help Gerald Burton, Jr With Tuition Expenses