January 2007, "Fanya Kaplan" DV, 7 min. Historical fiction, based on the true story of the 1918 attempted assassination of Lenin by a revolutionary woman named Fanya Kaplan. Russian with English subtitles. Script was translated into Russian and American actors were taught to speak lines phonetically. Music composed for the film by Rolan Duvvury. Won Best Picture for Georgia Tech, Atlanta Best Picture, and National Best Picture in the 2007 Campus Moviefest competition.
May 2007, "Noise Floor" DV, 15 min. Positions: Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematographer - Short narrative experimental film. Story follows a paraplegic who no longer can stand being trapped in his wheelchair. Character tries to overcome his inner torments and loses touch with reality. Film explores the mental space between conscious and unconscious. Designed and created numerous special effects and unique camera rigs to create a sense of disorientation. Special effects include motion tracking, macrophotography, compositing, and matchmoving segments filmed in a 3-walled greenscreen room. All Music was composed for the film by Matt Bigelow.
February 2007, "GTmotorsports Commercial 1 – The Dream" DV, 2 min. Positions: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Digital Colorist - Designed a dynamic multipoint lighting setup to reveal different parts of a stationary race car as a dollying crane shot moved around the scene.
February 2007, “GTmotorsports Commercial 2 – The Drive” DV, 2 min. Positions: Director, Cinematographer, Editor - Commercial for Web and TV. Filmed high speed racing with a chase car rig, stationary cameras, and multiple on-car camera mounts.
January 2006, "Causality" DV, 12 min. Positions: Director, Writer, Editor - Interweaving story follows 5 different characters as their stories collide one fateful night. Directed a crew of over 30. Nominated for Best Drama at 2006 Atlanta Campus Moviefest.
June 2006, "French Fry Pizza" DV, 55 min. Positions: Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematographer - Documentary about youth in Italy. Dialog in both English and Italian, subtitled in both. Lead a crew of 4 and directed Italian actors. Worked with a translator. Created as part of study abroad program over 4 weeks in Italy. Film won Best Documentary at the IFS Film competition at the University of Udine, Italy.
October 2006, "Dormitory Slaughter" DV, 10 min. Positions: Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematographer - Created and filmed several realistic "breaking news reports" to be broadcast to students’ TVs on Halloween, combined with an interactive "haunted house" section of a real dorm which blurred the lines of reality by simultaneously displaying live streaming "security cameras" which showed the participants in real time, combined with a precreated short horror film, giving the appearance that the killer just murdered a participant in the room they just came from.
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