This is a promo for Final Friday on Film Row - a great new event the last Friday of every month on Oklahoma City's historic Film Row. It's hosted by all the businesses in the Film Exchange District. Hope to see you there!
Song: Hungaria Album: demo 2008 freemusicarchive.org/music/Latch_Swing/demo_2008/ Artists: latcheswing.fr/
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My 2012 demo reel. Cut in FCP X with an assist from FCP 7 & Magic Bullet Looks 2.0. There was a great step forward in my professional work that I'm pleased with. I also experimented with split screens and split screen transitions that I eventually started to apply to other work. Overall, 2012 was a great year. I did a lot of work for Grapevine Media and a fair amount of stuff on my own. I really think my skills and abilities increased over the course of the year and gave me the confidence that I had, in fact, chosen the right career. Project included:
My first attempt at a true Spec Spot for my directing reel and a chance to learn my camera a little better. The original idea was for the piece to play out more like a horror story, but that didn't work so, I came up with the sentimental copy in post.
Shot on an HMC-40, edited in FCP7, and color in Magic Bullet Looks.
Oklahoma Video Production
Friendenstein was the product of a 24-hour film race hosted at my alma mater, Oklahoma City University. It was fun going back to the campus to shoot and meet the new kids coming up behind me. With it being Halloween weekend and a theme of 'Creation', a riff on Frankenstein was only natural. Our line was "Don't worry. This will all be over soon." and our prop was duct tape.
Shot on an HMC-150 and HMC-40, edited in Final Cut Pro 7, and colored with Magic Bullet Looks.
Mixing wine with Oklahoma video production.
I did this spot for the Ravenswood Wine contest on Poptent.net and to add to my directing reel. Special thanks to my friend Heather Mickley and her grandparents for the use of their farm. I found out about the contest 36 hours before the deadline. With no time to throw together a full cast and crew, Heather and I just went for broke to see if we could pull it off in time. Ultimately, I would have loved to have an actor to play the 'wine taster' instead of me. However, Heather's grandfather and uncle did a great job.
First shots of my new Panasonic HMC-40 right out of the box. It's a small camera, but packs a powerful punch.
For posterity, this is my 2010 Demo Reel. A good chunk of this is from my "student" work while at Oklahoma City University. I say "student" work because I went back to school after working professionally a number of years to get my degree. There is also some professional work mixed in as well as some contest commercials.
Projects making an appearance in this video are:
Unsolved - Feature Length Film
Hefner Road Pet Resort
I did this spot for Batter Blaster's commercial contest. Batter Blaster is a cool product and they gave us a lot of room in the creative. I thought a tongue-in-cheek '60s style comic book mashup would stand out.
Thankfully, my mom's next door neighbor is in real estate and had a house with a pink vintage kitchen on the market. My friend Heather jumped at the opportunity to dress and did a fabulous job helping me out on this one. Sadly, there appeared to be a high degree of voter fraud in the contest's polls (people used bots to rack in thousands of votes in a matter of minutes), and we didn't win. Still, I love this little piece.
The Hero!
The Villains!
Pow! Boom!
This is the second short film I did while I was at Oklahoma City University. I wanted to explore the idea of what happens when some poor schmuck screws up the classic 'I love you' moment and the people around him chime in to tell him how they would have done it. What was great was that I was able to build on the lessons I learned from the first short I did that just a few months prior. It was also my first time to shoot any green screen footage so it was very helpful to learn how to do that while still in school.
This is the first short film I did while I was at Oklahoma City University. It also happens to be my last SD project ever. The idea was more of an exercise in filmmaking; I hadn't made anything in several years and I wanted to get my feet wet again before trying something more ambitious (see: Three Little Words).