Week Seven Photo Challenge: Screenplay Cover

This screenplay was written for a school project for my Short Form Scriptwriting class in early 2011. It is currently undergoing a second rewrite and on its way to a third rewrite after which it will enter preproduction.

The script, as it is now, is approximately sixteen pages in length. With the new rewrite, it should be closer to twelve to make the story a little more concise. There are a few superfluous scenes and lines that can definitely get edited out.

The story is a satirical take on our views of the world as a collective. The story follows a living woman who is madly in love with and wants to marry her zombie.

However, in this fictional world there are two types of zombies. Reanimates are those zombies who have simply died and come back to life. They still retain most of their human aspects; speech, logic, motor skills, etc. The other type of zombie is called Decomps. These zombies are zombies who have died, decomposed and come back to life. They do not retain any humanistic traits after they are reanimated. They are the classic Romero zombies.

         This story, obviously, focuses on a reanimate named Jeph. Spelled phonetically because the first sounds he made when he came back were juh eph.

         This story is the first story I have written that has political and social commentary. While it does touch on the subject of homophobia and homosexual marriage, it is still a light hearted story meant to entertain and not to preach. 

Week Four Photo Challenge: Movie Poster

This poster comes from a short form video project I worked on. I was a camera operator for one of the shots indoors and for all of the shots used in the end of the short. The short was written for the screen by one Timothy Salmon specifically for a short form video contest hosted by onvidi. The short came out to be just over three minutes in length.

On top of being a camera operator, I was also the supporting male lead. The shoot lasted two days; one of which was inside Timothy’s house. The second day was spent shooting down south at the dry lakebed south of Henderson, Nevada.

The information at the bottom of the poster posted here is what is usually seen on a standard movie poster. Some of the information is not currently on the movie poster. For instance, the Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, has not rated the film and therefore we cannot add the ratings box.

From a design standpoint, I felt as though if I added the writer’s and the director’s credits that it would look a bit awkward so I left it out. Timothy Salmon filled those credits as well.

This movie poster was a bit tricky to create. I had two other projects in mind for this project, but none of the frames in them felt as though they would make a good poster. This one just seemed a bit stylized and ambiguous, which I thought would lend itself well to the marketing of the short film.

Photo Challenge: Storyboards

     This photo is submitted for the week three photo challenge wherein we are supposed to prepare a nine frame storyboard and post it to our blog. The storyboards I have are from a commercial shot a few weeks back for Zebra Cakes. The commercial was written and directed by one Michael Rueca. I was the cinematographer in charge of all things camera and lighting.

            The commercial is thirty seconds long consisting of about eleven shots or so. The commercial was edited by Michael and submitted for a class assignment to Tim Kelly. The storyboards prepared were not able to be found so I had to recreate them using shots from the actual commercial.

            Storyboards are an essential part of every production. This is a service that my company will be offering to clients.

Week Two Photo Challenge: Me Working

     This is a photo of myself on the set of the show “Sound Check”. I was both the director and the cinematographer for the shoots during “Sound Check”. Together with my crew, we created a half hour pilot to air on Las Vegas TV. The episode ran for three weeks.

During the shoot, we utilized the latest technology in the digital film realm including the Canon 7D, JVC’s pro series GY-HM700, Panasonic’s HMC150 and various audio equipment.

The pilot took about seventy hours of shooting and forty-eight hours of post-production.

This particular picture was taken during a group interview with a few bands who were performing later that night during a joint concert sponsored by Vitamin Water.

Working as a director I coordinated a team and was able to be a part of the project from beginning to end. I was involved from concept to post-production.

I believe this photograph is a great example of me working. It shows my ability to take on different positions at once. I was directing, monitoring audio levels and setting up lighting. The photo shows my camera operation and my audio monitoring.  In this photo we can see the GY-HM700, which is a high-end broadcast camera. A category of camera  that most new to the business filmmakers and videographers haven’t had a chance to use. This helps to exemplify my abilities on set.