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= Evan Puschak = Evan Puschak is a video essayist on YouTube. He grew up in Philadelphia and has been creating Video essays for his YouTube channel, Nerdwriter1 since 2011. His work includes videos on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film), what Truman Show teaches about politics and How Donald Trump answers a question. He also did a TEDx talk on How YouTube Changed the essay. In this talk, Puschak traced the history of the written conventional essay and compared it with an essay-film, creating a new form of essays, known as the Video essay. A prominent advocate and practitioner of multimedia scholarship named Eric Faden suggested that video essays consist of moving images which engage to lay out critiques on themselves, illustrate theory and reveal the labor of their construction. The video element in Puschak's video essays is inextricable from the argument. Reading his video essay scripts without the accompaniment of the visuals would not provide the same experience as watching his finished product Puschak's multilayered videos have gained him much recognition and followers since he started his YouTube channel eight years ago.

Early Career life
Prior to working full time on his channel, Nerdwriter1, Evan Puschak worked with MSNBC, a job offered to him after viewing one of his earliest videos on the K.I.N.D fund, a fund which works towards providing desks for students in poor countries. Working with the MSNBC, Puschak contributed to articles such as Texas woman ejected from Senate floor amid abortion bill testimony

See also: A list of articles by Evan Puschak

After working for MSNBC for three years, Puschak was offered a job by The Discovery Channel to write and host a show for their digital network, on a show called Seeker Daily. However, Puschak eventually became disinterested in working in offices and attending meetings. After working for the Discovery channel for a few months, Puschak left the Discovery channel and decided to pursue his YouTube channel Nerdwriter1 full time.

Nerdwriter1
YouTube has widely popularized User-generated content sharing. YouTube provides users with the opportunity to create, promote and view visual media. and has garnered a wide array of content. One such example is The Nerdwriter1, a Youtube channel created and produced by Evan Puschak. The channel critically analyses topics such as music theory, film techniques, paintings, politics and poetry.

Through his work Puschak has earned nearly 2.5 million subscribers on his channel. Focusing on a media-centric critical analysis, Puschak's essays range from topics of Social media, politics, such as his video about how Donald Trump answers a question, films, Poetry, culture and music.

Video Essays
The most watched video essay on the Nerdwriter1 examines how Donald Trump answers a question. In this video, Evan Puschak deciphers Trump's answer to a question asked during his visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Trump's answer to whether it is wrong to discriminate people based on their religion, was broken down into how many syllables each word was as well as the complexity and relevance of each sentence. Puschak's video essay concluded that Trump's verbal skills amount to a fourth grade level on the Fiesh-Kincaid readability test. This claim was also reflected in the Boston Globe's research in their 2015 Presidential election campaign analysis, in which Trump's campaign announcement scored a fourth grade level, the lowest level on the scale.

Another example of Puschak's video essays is the critical analysis of how Howard Shore's music elevates story in the Lord of the Rings franchise. In his video, Puschak claims how Shore creates music to represent themes, characters, attachment with audiences and concepts, which are revisited throughout the franchise. This video essay begins with the beginning of the franchise in which Shore creates a chorus, singing in a harmonic minor key, before anything else appears on screen. This signals the Lothlorian Theme and is used for Galadriel, who will go on to narrate the story about the ring. In an academic essay on the musical effects in Lord of the Rings, Matthew David Young elaborates on how Howard Shore builds a score to elevate story, represent character development, visualize the different lands and explore motives throughout the fight between evil and good.

Evan Puschak's work has combined visuals and voice over with academic research, allowing for an elaborate and engaging reaction from audiences. His work has been referenced by various influencers, such as Lessons from the Screenplay (YouTube channel) and authors and earned him a spot on the 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 in Media list.

Influences through work
Evan Puschak's video essay on why The Handmaid's Tale won the Emmy for best Drama was referenced by Julia Leyda, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, on her analysis of the Metaphor of the hook and the eye and how The Handmaid's Tale (TV series) approaches it. She references how Puschak's video amplifies a sense of Myopia through camera technique, tone, acting and voiceovers.

Evan Puschak also made the Forbes '30 under 30 in Media' list in 2017 for garnering, at the time the list was created, 900,000 subscribers, with over 42 million views.