Supplemental Portfolio for CET Application to Prague-FAMU

Within this post are several items I would like to include for consideration in my portfolio, in addition to the items a part of my personal eFolio from my personal blog.

Please find images I have taken both on film and digitally, a storyboard from my first fiction short, which I directed, and links to various short films I have been a part of over the past year.

Photography:
Here are a few photos, taken over the past year and here is a link to my flickr site with more photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/122958324@N04/

Storyboards:

Here are some very rough storyboards and a floorplan with camera setups I created for my short film Will & Testament, posted above. Some of the shots changed over the course of planning and shooting this short, but the overall ideas are there. I apologize for my poor drawing skills.

Fiction Short: Will & Testament

Autobiography: 

Will & Testament

Now in my second semester production 2 class everyone had to direct and produce a different short film. Ideally they were supposed to be one minute, but mine didn't quite meet that mark (by three minutes). It is my first foray into fiction and directing. It turned out better than I could have imagined and I can't thank my production team enough. Please enjoy my film, Will & Testament.

Autobiography

For my first semester production 1 class we had to create an autobiography. To help streamline the thought process my professor encouraged us to focus on one or two important characteristics of our lives and put them into our short films. I used music and my undergraduate university. The University of Wisconsin Madison. Check it out!

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays, whichever one(s) you celebrate! This was partially shot at my parents house and a house in my neighborhood.

Gone With The Lawn

Here's my group's final project: "Gone With The Lawn." If you like lawns make sure you take the necessary steps to properly take care of them. Lawns don't need to be a part of the 'American Dream' as they have become. I, and my group, hope you enjoy our final project.

There are still a few tweaks we'll be making in the coming months, but this may become more than just a final project for one class.

For those of you curious about the many drafts, changes, and work that goes into making even a short six minute video here's my group's production book. This chronicles the changes we made throughout production and shows some production stills from when we actually were filming. Sorry in advance if you have to download it, but there's a handy table of contents if you're lazy!

https://mega.co.nz/#!lllFlKJC!eOVrOkjgppXlBadqaJuowlUTi5wsNYIOhdBtEXG_8vI

1x1

One final project was our 1x1. One filmmaker and one subject. My subject was Chris O'Brien, the Director of Sustainability at American University.

Katzen Still Camera

Explore a space visually. For this assignment we had to film two different versions, one with only still shots and one with camera movements. And could do one with a combination of the two as well.

Lumiere Project

This project was based on the Lumiere Brothers first films. We were to find an area in the place we recorded our soundscape and set the camera up and film for one minute.

Soundscape +Interview

This is the soundscape with an interview.

Soundscape

This is the soundscape my group recorded in production 1.