Jacob Diehl
Bio
Jacob Diehl is primarily responsible for creating professional-level videos that communicate the NC State brand for use on the web and social media, events and in the media. He also produces various original digital content and edits existing content to be utilized across multiple platforms including social media and web –– such as photography, graphic images, web pages, email templates and digital ads.
Professional Experience
Diehl previously was a digital media producer at The Friday Institute at NC State and a videographer for East Carolina University, covering events ranging from athletics to recruiting to chancellor’s visits.
“I got into video production in high school in a mass communications class that I took for three years,” Diehl said. “I got really into music videos, which led me to study communication in college and continue in promotional video production,” he said.
Diehl said that, in his work, he tries “to make every video different and unique, and to avoid cliché or overused visuals. There is so much video content people see every day; you need to make something that will stand out and catch a viewer’s attention, so I try to do that with everything I’m creating, no matter what the content may be.
Education
Bachelor of Arts Communication Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) 2013