Demo Reel 2010
Most of this work was for the wonderful people at Apple Productions with various clients. My credits include: writing, directing, camera operator + focus puller, steadicam op, editing, color grading, audio and digital upload for broadcast. And most of these were for entire spots! What can I say? I love every aspect of film! (except acting... I would suck at acting...)
Most spots were shot on the Red One, so I also enjoyed the DIT from the Red RAW to Cineform visually lossless compression. In addition to camera, I designed and built the edit systems including 8GB/s Fibre Channel network RAID 5 arrays utilizing Adobe CUDA GPU acceleration and Kona SDI output.
If you ever want any advice regarding nearly any technical (or creative...) aspect to a production, I'd love to help.
Bake Sale [48hr]
Bake Sale [48hr]
48 Hour Film Project: Film de Femme
As luck would have it, my second local 48hr entry AGAIN drew “Film de Femme” genre. This time I wanted to have some fun with guns. So of course a church Bake Sale was the obvious choice for a gun fight… Cindy and Cindi are two church friends, same name, spelled differently. Who would have thought that one little letter could be the center of a mistaken identity spy shootout.
Family Matters: As Days Go By [filmmakingfrenzy]
Family Matters: As Days Go By
Alamo Drafthouse Filmfrenzy
The Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest teamed up for “Film-making Frenzy”, a local Austin film competition. This competition focused squarely on remaking a television show as a movie. For this short I teamed up with Comedia-A-Go-Go, a comedic sketch group from San Antonio. They developed the brilliant idea of remaking “Family Matters” into a Michael Bay Bad Boys styled blockbuster. I was happy they sought me out as director for this film. It’s always nice to work with others who respect your work and they knew they wanted lots of high-action moving camera. I used everything from dollies to jibs and steadicam on this short. I really enjoyed doing the special effects to turn a photo of a house into a very Bay-like explosion in the end. Please enjoy.
No Man’s Land [48hr]
No Man’s Land
48 Hour Film Project: Film de Femme
This was my first local film competition. I drew the genre of “Film de Femme”, which means that the film must have a strong female lead. I’ve always loved films about post-apocalyptic society and decided that the best “Film de Femme” would be one that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the men have died off, leaving only sexually frustrated women and their clones… But what would happen if these friendly women discovered that there was ONE man left? Would society again fall? Watch to find out!
Chili [48hr]
Chili
Commissioned short
While this short is not of my writing. I was very excited as this was my first paid job directing someone else’s creativity. The short went extremely well, and took about a day to film. It was an amazing experience translating someone else’s concept into a viable production.
The Green Pixels [48hr]
The Green Pixels [48hr]
The DV Challenge: Jealousy Theme
For my second short film I enlisted my brother’s “acting” ability. We made this short in one afternoon. The theme of ‘jealousy’ seemed to allow for so many story ideas, I ended up going with one of planned obsolescence and consumerism having an affect on our older technology. I wanted to give life to an inanimate object to experiment with what a ‘character’ really is. In the end the short turned out well, and looking back I’ll always laugh at the ridiculous nature of this short. Enjoy.
The Rose [48hr]
The Rose [48hr]
The DV Challenge: Memories Theme
My first film competition video. I wanted to see how much emotion I could convey without any dialogue. This is my throwback to the silent-film era. For this competition themed ‘memories’, I landed on a concept of an old man (played by yours truly while the camera was on a tripod) patiently growing a very special rose in commemoration of his 50th wedding anniversary. It is intentionally slow-paced in order to force the viewer to really consider how long life can be when missing someone you love.
Please watch and enjoy this short story.