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2006 The Gusburger Eat-off was my final movie made as a student at the University of Virginia. I wanted to explore the documentary medium, to follow a person for part of their life, in this case my personal training in hopes to win the Gusburger Eat-off. It was my longest movie by far, and a blast to make. 2005 a life in the day of... filmed, written, and edited entirely by myself. Although it has some similar themes to life as we know it, I wanted to look at oneself instead of the masses. Technically, I wanted to explore the black and white medium and picture contrast. 2004 Making The Dynamic Duo was the greatest experience I had in a classroom. This movie was made in 6 weeks by a group of 4 students including myself. We spent hundreds of hours making this movie, where my other films probably took a total of 10-15 hours each. We would spend up to 30 hours in the computer lab animating each week, including some Friday and Saturday nights. My contribution to the movie was filming the live footage, placing and animating the character into the real world. The hardest part was lighting the character correctly, and placing shadows and reflections in the real world. 2004 the award winning movie life as we know it was my first movie made in college. Based on some prose I wrote one night months later I thought that I could put my words onto the screen. I entered this film in the UVA Salmigundi student film festival and won 2nd place. This gave me a boost of confidence to continue making movies and is probably my most widely liked film. 2002 Urinals, Urinals, Urinals, Urinals, was the culmination of my high school movie making career. Although I had made various movies in biology class, and starred in a movie for my film studies class titled, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Temple Crusade; Urinals, Urinals, Urinals, Urinals was a blast to make by taking me to various filming locations including the Kennedy Center bathroom in Washington D.C. This movie was also my first adventure in digital editing using iMovie, which was a vast improvement over the original editing job using a DVD player and 2 VHS decks. Based on a prose piece that I wrote in 12th grade, I converted the prose to an unforgettable visual experience on screen. |
