Video
Education
Basecamp
Ongoing paleontology web series "Basecamp" aims to help young audiences build observational skills & become aware of how small organisms effect the big picture.
Jackrabbit Science is a production group led and created by Bean that also hosts an online learning platform that furthers learning from the related web series.
Each episode and learning content is researched, written, hosted, and edited by Bean and supported by an awesome team of songwriters, camera operators, and puppeteers.
Short form and easily digestible videos that highlight some of the overlooked plant & animal species of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
Dunes Diaries
Short form and easily digestible videos that encourage viewers to imagine the ways that technology and social change has altered our lived experiences by capturing daily life at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site.
Living History
Sinking
Short film following US Navy submarine crew just before the Cuban Missile Crisis as tensions boil, personally and politically.
Bean researched and production designed the film as well as designing the costumes and coordinating the set build. Film was completed as their Practicum Capstone in 2021.
One of Our Own
Bean researched and designed Vietnam Army uniforms for 2021 Practicum film.
Madwoman
Short film depicting Nellie Bly's harrowing undercover writing, unearthing abusive mental asylum conditions on Blackwell Island & pioneering a place for women in journalism.
Written and Directed by Bean. Winner of Best Picture at Films on a Shoestring Fest and featured at Lyric Cinema's Local Filmmaker showcase.
Period Redesign
Design proof of concept for a redesign of Howl's Moving Castle as a 1850s western developed by Bean for 2022 Set Decoration class.
Trek
Design proof of concept for a short film about the first human migration out of the cradle of humanity and the archeologist that is hunting down the history.
Developed by Bean for 2021 Rendering Techniques class.