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Directing & Cinematography
Save the Day
Remastered Short Film
April 2017
Save the Day is a short film that I wrote, directed, filmed, and edited when I was in high school. The original short won me the "Superior" award from the International Thespian Society in 2015. The plot was inspired by the music video "Take on Me," and used a combination of Microsoft Paint and a hack for Windows Movie Maker to create the comic book-like effect.
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Two years later, once I had been using Premiere Pro for about a year, I decided to try to take the same footage and reconstruct the CG world using After Effect and Premiere Pro.
I directed this short film with Windows Movie Maker in mind, which is why many of the shots were intentionally filmed as flat space, with cuts specifically to allow for only 3 cardinal directions to make the CG in post easier.
While this is some of my earliest work in Premiere, I managed to take a previous short film of mine and revitalize it into HD and with better graphics.
Save the History Teachers
PSA Spoof
Fall 2017
This public service announcement-like spoof was created for my final exam in my Creating Multimedia Content class. The assignment was to make a short film that was 3-5 minutes in length.
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For my project, I decided to go back to my old high school and recruit the history teachers I had over the years to film this video over a period of two days during their Thanksgiving break. Luckily, many of them had an acting background and were willing to make an appearance in the film.
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Written, directed, and edited myself, this short film was shot intentionally to feel like a PSA, with interviews with "victims," B-roll covering the incidents, and myself, playing the announcer, encouraging people to donate to the cause.
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Everyone had a lot of fun while filming this zany and over the top short and it eventually became an overnight sensation at my high school when the teachers showed it in their classes.
Messy Mishaps
Short Film
March 2019
Messy Mishaps was filmed in the unique vertical format as a submission to Nespresso's 2019 film contest. The theme of that year's competition was "You are what you eat."
For this short, as co-writer, with JJ Law, director, and editor, we wanted to showcase how food can bring people together and bring comfort - no matter the kind of day you've had. Therefore, this short film follows three sad misfits struggling with bad eating habits who come together to create a delicious meal.
While directing, I made sure to have a large focus on filming the food. The spills on each person were highlighted, in two of the cases through the use of deep space sequences. Meanwhile, the final dinner scene at the end had a large focus on the happiness of each of the characters and on the delicious food. The last scene also was made more saturated than the rest of the film, intentionally made under-saturated, to emphasize the value of the final meal.
Head Hunters
Short Film
May 2019
For my final project for Producing for the Screen, I worked with JJ Law, who acted as a producer, and worked on audio and lighting for the project, to create a comical short film about a guy joining a video game competition to impress the people around him. I co-wrote the script with Camden Campe and I directed and edited the short.
A lot of the shots between the lead guy and girl were intentionally made close-up, often telephoto shots, to symbolize the bond growing between them during the 80s montage. Meanwhile, the final tournament scene was constructed as a wide shot to have a sense of the audience and excitement for the finale.
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Much of the short consists of the 80s montage, which was a lot of fun to film. It consists of quick shots in the sequence that were constructed as a homage to the 80s as well as video games. A lot of nerds were involved in this project, which made it fun to write, film, and edit.
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